Jarhead (2005) Full Streaming

What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism though which other young men can be observed.. Jarhead is utterly predictable (boys endure tough training; boys encounter another culture and are baffled), studded with first-rate performances.. Jarhead can't shoot its way out of its own cliches.. A war picture that, trying to pass off fidelity ...

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Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) Full Streaming

. A talented director of ensembles and intimate scenes, Bier again proves herself a powerful, if occasionally overwrought, dramatist.. Though nudity will keep this from being a family film, for those who love the family of the theater, this postcard from its past is worth framing in your heart.. . Keeps itself floating above the suds thanks to Bier's crisp and lively visual design, the general loveliness of her cast ... and her attention to small moments of arresting domestic authenticity.. . A ...

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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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