The Loft (2014) Titta Hela Filmen

This new iteration proves such a dour hodgepodge of bad behavior, bald-faced misogyny and ping-ponging alliances, it's more alienating than alluring.. Erotic thrillers are a time-tested genre, but this effort, scripted by Wesley Strick, is neither erotic nor thrilling.. The Loft's boorish leads aren't sensible enough to be worth caring about, making the film's character-driven conclusion feel like a self-defeating cop-out.. Hollywood adds to its trend of awful throwbacks to trashy '90s movies wi...

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Gone Baby Gone (2007) Ladda Ner Film

If Cruise's fantasy superhero garners as many staunch fans ... we may be witnessing the birth of a new franchise.. This movie is a turkey gone rancid.. A twisty, morally ambiguous and satisfying neo-noir.. A workmanlike action thriller, competent but never particularly thrilling.. Structurally, it's a bit murky, but in every other way Gone Baby Gone marks a triumph for the Affleck brothers.. Jack Reacher already feels as if it belongs to another era.. As the details mount, and the star does what...

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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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