Abandon (2002) Download Fuld

A psychological thriller that doesn't thrill much and whose ending we can guess halfway through; but if you're a lover of smart dialogue and intelligent characters, you won't be disappointed.. A highly schizophrenic movie that clearly wants to explore the lives of university students under stress their senior year but is forced to do so within a thriller format that requires spooky moments and malevolent ghosts.. It's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit.. Credit this pictur...

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No Good Deed (2003) Fuld Streaming

This undermarketed noir suffers because many of its characters don't seem to belong in the same universe.. There isn't enough irony or sly humor to keep adults interested, and there isn't enough adventure in the plot to keep children over the age of 4 from squirming in their seats.. The tots at a recent preview screening made little response to the bears, but audibly appreciated a human character who made noises come out of his armpit.. Pic as a whole is a gently and genuinely amusing treat that...

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Lilo og Stitch (2002) Spille Streaming

Regrettably, towards the end the film veers off into a mess of weird aliens and Cartoon Network silliness.. A functioning, funny, weirdly touching fable of artistic angst and aspiration, a meditation on fame and its terrors and the metaphoric usefulness of masks and huge fake heads.. [A] crushing disappointment.. The Coen brothers have crafted another unique period piece.. The movie's hipness quotient far outweighs its laugh quotient, though there's really no limit to the amusement of seeing som...

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) Se Fuld Film

A phlegmatic, middlebrow romantic drama so stodgy that even the goats look bored.. It can't make up its mind whether it's a serious drama, a swoony romance, or a psychological thriller.. . Captain Corelli's Mandolin gets things about half right.. Aspiring to melancholy wisdom and worldly significance, the movie achieves only a coy, frothy simulation of whatever we thought we loved about old-fashioned love stories.. We began this dismal movie season with one lethally bad World War II romance -- P...

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Metallica: Through the Never (2013) Se Streaming

The film's perfectly watchable, but it's never more than that.. A lovely tears- and-popcorn movie.. Even as someone who finds Metallica's music silly (ditto the movie's incoherent apocalyptic fantasy sequences), I was floored by much of the visual imagination.. It's all very appropriately overblown, and director Antal gives the fireworks as much attention as he does each performer.. A phlegmatic, middlebrow romantic drama so stodgy that even the goats look bored.. One of the most incoherent feat...

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Frank (2014) Online Streaming

The film is a work of deceptive refrigeration. The character lacks the same sentiment and warmth as the men who created him.. When the Coen brothers commit to something, there's no half-stepping. Every street corner bristles with authenticity. Every song lands exactly where and how it should.. There's not much of a plot to speak of, just a piercing, evocative sense of a time and place and the characters contained within it.. Beneath those puppet-headed antics, and true to its title, Frank is imp...

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Guruen (2002) Online Streaming

Delightful screwball comedy.. This ingrown mutant is easily the most bizarre children's film made in this country since 1982's lab-rat apocalypse The Secret of NIMH.. It's better than it sounds.. With a reach that frequently falls short, higher wit and sexual sophistication crumble into plain old silliness.. If you're looking to take your children to something harmless, that doesn't embarrass anyone, this light comedy ... is your next outing.. Kids will probably enjoy the sight of huge, bumbling...

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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011) Online Streaming

This feisty, frequently amusing chronicle of one young man's journey through the dancehalls of Lancashire nails its time and place.. Was there no one to suggest that the script, by Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert, had certain deficits? All the same, the spectacle of first-rate actors attacking third-rate material is guilty fun.. A crowd-pleasing comedy that isn't going to win any awards for originality.. Every plot turn is groaningly predictable. But at least the lead performances set off...

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Honeydripper (2007) Se Streaming

It survives on its versatile leads, its smoky cinematography (courtesy of Dick Pope) and its seductive musical performances, which run from gospel to jazz to blues to the to the electrifying kick-start of early rock 'n' roll.. Trudging nobly under a mantle of impeccably earnest intentions and a fussy, too-quaint-by-half production design, Honeydripper lags and drags to its utterly predictable end. There's not a spark of spontaneity or soul about it.. Watching the film, it's easy to imagine how a...

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The Caveman's Valentine (2001) Fuld Film Streaming

The new film confirms that Lemmons and Jackson are a movie team made in heaven.. Mostly good fun.. Watching the film, it's easy to imagine how a novel might make the unlikely plot machinations less ludicrous.. Lemmons creates mesmerizing passages, but she can't bring this one to a fulfilling crescendo.. There is pleasure in giving oneself up to the gusty swirls of the film's imagery, and especially to the handsome grandeur of its star.. Works as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in ...

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Grand Piano (2013) Fuld Film Streaming

The convincing atmosphere, performances and soundtrack of vintage Yank R&B obscurities make this an enjoyable throwback to a scene whose influence if not its fame eventually traveled far.. A revealing if disappointingly thin and histrionic drama about a couple of 18-year-old guys who gamble their dreams and future on riding a wave of youthful passion for soul music.. With nearly a dozen production companies and financiers presenting it, "Piano" is nothing more than a way for moneyed muckety-muck...

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