. One cannot recommend this film strongly enough.. The director, Paul Schrader, tries for cleansing audacity, but ends up too close to farce.. In a less competitive year, Jeff Goldblum would have had a shot at an Oscar nod.. You've got to hand it to Schrader: He pulls off enough of this impressionistic comedy to provoke passions and arguments anew about a topic that seems done to death.. Even when...
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) Full Movie Streaming
Eastwood's two-film project is one of the most visionary of all efforts to depict the reality and meaning of battle.. Flags of Our Fathers is an accomplished, stirring, but, all in all, rather strange movie.. . If the larger vision in Flags is somewhat out of focus, there are many small glimpses and grace notes that show Eastwood's well-developed sense of the particular in revealing a larger truth.....
Code Unknown (2000) Play Streaming
Even more impressive is the way Haneke evokes violence without showing it, and whips up tension and dread without music or any of the manipulative tricks so popular among Hollywood filmmakers.. Unfortunately, [Haneke's] often too cryptic, which leaves viewers still trying to make connections when they should already be reacting to the moral lessons implied by them.. The violence, in short, remains...
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Play Movie
It skillfully avoids the usual war movie cliches while providing multiple points of entry.. Pushes all sorts of envelopes -- political, historical and erotic -- against the sanctified background of the Nazi Holocaust, hitherto unthinkable as the linchpin of a lively melodrama like Black Book.. . Eloquent, bloody, and daringly simple, the movie examines notions of wartime glory as closely as Flags...
The Patience Stone (2012) Online Streaming
A startling fantasy of Muslim feminist empowerment that allows the Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani to put on what amounts to a one-woman show.. Most impressive, however, is Farahani's lead performance. Though often pitiable, the heroine never registers as a martyr or a victim, but a relatable, multifaceted human being.. The bare room where the husband lies helpless becomes a confessional...
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...
The Great Raid (2005) Play Movie
It's not only Americans who can make leaden, video game-style exercises in dumb war action.. The picture's broad outline may be fact, but everything inside gets painted in a deep shade of bogus.. Solid and convincing, if pedestrian, World War II story that has its moments.. Obsessed with authenticity, the movie simply isn't 'Hollywood' enough. What could have been a valuable history lesson for everyone...