Incendies (2010) Watch Streaming

If you think of Canadian films as the movie equivalent of cucumber sandwiches and chamomile tea, hold tight.. A strong film based on a weak story.. Filled with striking images and the ghosts of lives lived in hardship and war, "Incendies" is tough but impactful.. A deeply resonant literary quality gives what might otherwise seem like a dubious series of coincidences a profound sense of plausibility.. By the end they've acquired a measure of self-knowledge at a cost dearer than they expected, whi...

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Lions for Lambs (2007) Watch Streaming

If you enjoy the tense claustrophobia of submarine thrillers, K-19 fills the bill.. This is grand cinema.. . What they cut from the novel ... doesn't cause as many problems as what they add, which is often too bizarre or too whimsical for a story about death.. The movie's centrepiece is as close to tour-de-force suspense filmmaking as you'll see anywhere this summer.. There's something hollow beneath its polished surface.. Lions for Lambs is Redford's latest film as a director. It's also, sadly,...

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Beyond Borders (2003) Download Full

Pay attention, guess where it's going, and find yourself surprised.. Despite all its grisly sights, the most disturbing thing about Beyond Borders is the magnitude of its miscalculation. In this movie, the world's a stage for ill-fated romance, and famine and war aren't much more than props.. To imagine that there are those who would scoff at the idea that fashion cares! As Beyond Borders demonstrates with such lavish sensitivity, fashion cares like nothing else. When it comes to giving up food,...

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Sahara (2005) Download Full

This one has everything: stereotyped characters, shaky camera work, absurdly inappropriate pop songs on the soundtrack, a confused tone, misplaced zaniness and a nonsensical story.. A mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.. . McConaughey's no Harrison Ford. And no one cracks the whip of originality.. . Productions this guiltlessly corny need real personalities to sell them, and unlike the dull National Treasure, Sahara has a few.. Eisner is not remotely up to the ...

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The Hurt Locker (2008) Watch Full Movie

The movie, engrossing as it is intentionally horrifying, is capped by a last-minute revelation that brings the story to a haunting, powerful close.. Rage has no expiration date in Incendies, director Denis Villeneuve's gripping, era-jumping drama about a family melded to its war-torn past.. Bigelow's film combines an expert management of tension with a sensitive and journalistic attention to detail: she has one eye on the truth and the other on the multiplex.. Screenwriter Mark Boal and director...

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Alexander (2004) Download Full

If you think of Canadian films as the movie equivalent of cucumber sandwiches and chamomile tea, hold tight.. Rage has no expiration date in Incendies, director Denis Villeneuve's gripping, era-jumping drama about a family melded to its war-torn past.. The question isn't how do you live with the buzz of looming death; it's how do you live without it? No answers are offered, or even suggested.. Though the battles have the blood-and-sinew bravado you expect from Oliver Stone, this three-hour buttn...

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Triage (2009) Full Movie Streaming

Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the...

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The Edge of Love (2008) Play Movie

Apted and Stoppard have bitten off too much as they attempt to juggle an espionage plot and parallel past/present romances.. Jericho and Hester spend so much time on investigative idylls in the damp spring countryside that spy work starts to seem like a military garden party.. Apted and his crew pull out all the stops to craft a thriller out of material that looks better on paper than it does on film.. Pay attention, guess where it's going, and find yourself surprised.. A stagy, arty, and uncomp...

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Tears of the Sun (2003) Download Full

Stands as one more bit of throwback entertainment that's better than I expected -- and not much more.. The movie might have gotten a dramatic boost from its topical theme, indirect as it is. Unfortunately, it's not one-tenth as interesting as what you can see at home during a nightly cable surf as U.S. war policy is debated.. The film is a strictly no-bull proposition.. A mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.. If you ever wanted a reason to root for a righteous i...

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Enigma (2001) Full Streaming

If the movie's plot is a rare combination of impenetrable and inconsequential, it has been laid out compellingly by director Michael Apted.. Pay attention, guess where it's going, and find yourself surprised.. A complicated and intelligent British film with a curious roster of off-screen talent.. Complex, sinuously plotted and, somehow, off-puttingly cold.. It merely plods, occasionally bogging down in explanations and never generating much excitement.. Apted and his crew pull out all the stops ...

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A Very Long Engagement (2004) Full Movie Streaming

. A salute is in order for Bigelow, a director who knows how to navigate macho terrain without losing her human compass.. What could have been a movie packed with historical significance and nail-gnawing underwater tension ends up little more than a lumbering public-service announcement for the human spirit.. Jeunet's movie is a game of great singles inside an overextended ballgame.. Tautou, as always, makes this an enchanting trip.. . A Very Long Engagement probably has too many elements -- and...

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The Wind Rises (2013) Full Movie Streaming

. Stands as one more bit of throwback entertainment that's better than I expected -- and not much more.. This movie should have been called Crocodile Tears of the Sun.. McConaughey and his co-stars make the case that fun, however fleeting, is still fun.. The movie's a gorgeous, problematic anomaly in an illustrious career-a case of rapturous artistic blindness.. Whatever it lacks in substance it makes up for in gloss, humor and thrills, and a good time should be had by all.. Sahara is many thing...

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