The Messenger (2009) Online Streaming

It brings home the horror of the Iraq war in a way that much of our TV news media have failed to do.. The story's greatest value lies in its elegant twining of the universal and the obscure: Satrapi's coming-of-age should be familiar to all, but along with it come startling glimpses of everyday life under the heavy hand of a Muslim theocracy.. It's a mind-blower.. The screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture. All the characters are stereotypes, and their interaction is...

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Camp X-Ray (2014) Online Streaming

It tosses over all that finely drawn narrative caution and goes straight for the sensational, swinging its attention on Bruno's distraught mother and the breakdown of a single German family.. The narrative rushes through Nazi book burnings, Kristallnacht, the roundup of Jews and Hitler's fury over the Olympic triumph of Jesse Owens, a surface treatment of major events that barely conveys the horror of the times.. Although it's told from the perspective of a child, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ...

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) Download Full

The movie's craft is dead and dutiful. It's an Oscar machine.. The movie is dramatically slack and uninvolving.. Based on an actual Greek tragedy of epic proportions, which inspired a novel by Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin has finally been adapted to the big screen, with largely positive results.. The problem is that the novel is about a lot more than this, and the story suffers in the translation.. Strikes too many false notes on the dramatic side to add up to a satisfying emot...

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Sarah's Key (2010) Download Movie

You can't watch this film without thinking about modern wars and about how much easier it is to demonize a foe when language and customs are more at odds.. It does provide audiences with the satisfaction of seeing and hearing an important truth expressed, and that's better than making you feel good. That's making you feel something.. [Images of WWI are] terrible, but shadowy and distant, and it takes an extraordinary film on the order of Joyeux Noel to make it all suddenly vital, immediate and h...

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Testament of Youth (2014) Watch Full Movie

In what is a well-acted but fairly typical prestige period drama, it's Vikander's nuanced performance as the resolute but still-vulnerable Vera who gives the film its depth.. Just once, it would be refreshing to see Britain look like something other than a country-living catalogue.. Mournful, very fine .... I really like this movie. thank you. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds ...

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Madras Cafe (2013) Watch Streaming

The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. This movie is an epic action movie that I belie...

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Gods and Generals (2003) Play Streaming

What the filmmakers fail to recognize is that history on the page is quite different from what it needs to be onscreen, namely alive and visceral.. Four hours including the intermission, I felt like I was seeing the Civil War in real time for awhile there.. Few of [the actors] are able to compete with the wigs and the platitudes.. It may not be the worst war epic ever made -- that probably would be Battlefield Earth -- but it's darn close to being an unqualified disaster of that magnitude.. One ...

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