Man from Reno (2014) Spela Strömmande

Passion is pretty good. If you cared enough to make a list, it might be your fifth or sixth favorite De Palma.. Man From Reno is hardly the equal of its inspirations, but it nonetheless makes for a pleasantly mellow, well-structured concoction.. John Moore directs the hell out of the action, while Jonathan Sela's glistening photography captures the snow and rain that fall on these bloody New York streets. But you'd have to be on crack not to guess the 'surprise' finale.. Polished and ambitious, ...

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Minority Report (2002) Spela Strömmande

A ludicrous, borderline-nonsensical supernatural concoction with a slightly redeeming sense of its own silliness.. It desperately gathers cliches like a teen fantasy Frankenstein that doesn't realize its secret identity: parody.. Though it has flashes of promise, Bones traces the footsteps of its fantasy film predecessors too closely to blaze anything close to an original narrative.. Much of Minority Report is inspired, but the movie is also packed with oddball, overdone acting, the occasional c...

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Solaris (2002) Titta Hela Filmen

Madsen barely emotes during the ensuing flood of hokey scare tactics.. Despite well-designed scare shots, the laborious telling of this elaborate ghost story ultimately fizzles under the weight of too much effort.. If you give it half a chance, it will bore into your subconscious, mess with your mind and leave you mumbling, 'Hmm, what if --'. . This cold, occasionally dull movie practically defies you to embrace it.. Although it's meant to be restrained and free of emotional hysteria, the result...

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The Haunted Mansion - Spökhuset (2003) Fullständig Strömning

[I]t's dreadful.. It's perfectly palatable family fare for a long weekend when it's hard to find movies at the neighborhood 'plex that will please everyone.. The movie's horror angle also reminds us of Vampire in Brooklyn, the last in a string of Murphy flops before The Nutty Professor saved his screen career in 1996. With this listless foray, Eddie is twice bitten.. Contempo Hollywood may be awash in brilliant technicians and craftspeople but it also needs good storytellers, who aren't to be fo...

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The Crazies (2010) Ladda Ner Hela

Romero had quite a lot on his mind, back in the day: Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, a wicked distrust of the military and the Man in general. Eisner has almost nothing on his mind.. If there's a message in all this, it's buried in blood splatter. Which is fine, but makes The Crazies more disappointing than if it had less lofty goals.. While it loses the charm of Romero's low-budget clunkiness, it is in all other regards superior.. The Crazies is familiar B-movie fare, but it's also lively fu...

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Irrational Man (2015) Fullständig Film Streaming

If you haven't read the source material I think you're going to dislike it even more than I did. So yeah, it's sort of bad news around here.. Woody Allen has always repeated the same handful of themes in his films, but now even his repetitions are getting repetitious.. Were it not for Stone's chipperness as Jill, the film, smoothly directed as it is, would be a real slog.. You feel some mild critique of lives lived through web applications. What you don't feel is sustained visceral fright.. Over...

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Deliver Us from Evil (2014) Titta Hela Filmen

Because the plot spins out in such a smooth fashion and the acting is so darned good, we're distracted from the film's flaws.. Underneath its hocus-pocus is a compelling story, very well told.. Just another dumb riff on The Exorcist .... "Deliver Us From Evil'' expertly serves shivers, buckets of gore - and pretty much every cliche of the genre.. What (director Neil) Burger and his colleagues have done is to entrance us with a richly acted, beautifully produced story.. This terrific romantic thr...

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