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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From Hell (2001) Spela Film

The gaudiness of From Hell might make the film effective for some viewers, on its own cheap terms. But the movie is a disastrous example of filmmakers whose reductive sensibility is not up to the density of the work they've undertaken.. Fitfully arresting late night entertainment.. An occasionally awkward mix of art film and slasher flick, From Hell manages to make its luridness intelligent enough -- and its intelligence lurid enough -- to send you home satisfied.. A loud and overbearing two-hou...

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The Tall Man (2012) Fullständig Strömning

The movie itself draws on too long, and eventually goes past at least two potential endings and heads right into the ridiculous.. Long on atmosphere and short on sense, "The Tall Man" becomes less gripping as it grows more ridiculous.. Once you get through the flaming, Bowser's Castle-like gauntlet of the rest of the story's implausibilities, you end up in a different movie than the one on the creepy poster.. "The Tall Man" spits out enough scares and twists to maintain our interest, but the fil...

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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012) Ladda Ner Hela

This ludicrous outing from helmer Christian Alvart and scribe Ray Wright takes its psycho-satanic babble much too seriously, and should elicit more laughs than frights.. A cheaper, cheesier sequel that's worse than its predecessor on every level (save being a half-hour shorter) and takes no special advantage of the stereoscopic process.. With horror altogether absent and a plot drowning in insipid convolutions, it's a film whose early warning to Heather should be heeded: "Don't go to Silent Hill...

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The Gift (2015) Spela Film

More than anything, Edgerton's script and direction demonstrate a keen understanding of tension and what puts an audience on edge.. A dark and ultimately quite nasty psychological thriller from actor/writer/debut director Joel Edgerton, who manages to yank the carpet out from under his audience a couple of times.. Edgerton's touch as a director and writer is fluid - he eerily holds our attention, like Hitchcock holds a door for Tippi Hedren.. Lukewarm as a romance, but the charming young cast he...

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Brick (2005) Ladda Ner Film

Johnson isn't the first director to subvert suburbia, but he's probably the first to have done such a fine job of it on his first outing.. Yet in being so unlike the typical high school flick, it captures anew the alienation, the ridiculously earnest intensity of feeling, the insularity of experience that are part and parcel of those blunder years.. Monster House, a frankly horrific and full-tilt hilarious family yarn about a man-snacking mansion. It's engineered to scare your pants off, split y...

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