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Joy (2015) Online 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...
Cesar Chavez (2014) Watch Streaming
The results can be surprisingly rich, lucid and subtle.. Hickenlooper and co-conspirator Kevin Spacey are more successful at entertaining th...
Rudhramadevi (2015) Download Movie
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 i...
The Sapphires (2012) Play Movie
The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. "The Sapphires" illu...
The Great Debaters (2007) Download Movie
Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Awesome as direct...
Find Me Guilty (2006) Watch Streaming
A film guilty off moral stupidity and misguided hero worship.. This may be the most Brechtian thing Lumet has ever done -- a movie that repe...
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) Download Movie
Murray, who has a wider range than we sometimes realize, finds the human core of this FDR and presents it tenderly.. Casting Murray as FDR m...
It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) Full Streaming
While most mockumentaries translate as lazy storytelling, this one is elevated by an astounding, Oscar-worthy performance by Kaye.. I really...
Howl (2010) Play Streaming
This is a bold, inspiring piece of work, putting experimental techniques in the service of a heartfelt, insightful and surprisingly audience...
The First Grader (2010) Play Streaming
. Stow your cynicism and give this lesson in continuing education the response it deserves -- more than a polite clap, maybe even a sitting ...
Max Manus: Man of War (2008) Play Movie
Just think of it as a movie about a friendly, sick old man who can be quite a handful, and put the real FDR out of your mind.. Essentially, ...
The Last Station (2009) Online Streaming
Isn't all that it should be, but whenever these two actors are onscreen, it's like a great night at the theater.. If you come to thi...
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Play Streaming
I couldn't buy it, and couldn't wait for the hollow spectacle to end.. The Wolf of Wall Street is a magnificent black comedy: fast, ...
Big Miracle (2012) Play Streaming
The genuinely sweet nature of this sometimes clunky movie is mixed with a little sass, and wins you over.. Given the abundance of one-dimens...
The Longshots (2008) Watch Streaming
What makes this one different? Absolutely nothing. (Sure, it's based on a true story, but I mean come on, whatever.). With a title like ...
Party Monster (2003) Download Full
It is Spacey's performance that contains most of the movie's mystery; although Abramoff's actions left little room for justifica...
Casino Jack (2010) Watch Streaming
It's hard to work up a whole lot of love or sympathy for convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.. Kevin Spacey gives a bravura performance as ...
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) Play Streaming
When Williams turns on her inner Marilyn -- surrounded by, say, the staff of a stately home she's visiting on the sly -- she's a sup...
Il Divo (2008) Play Streaming
Unlike most political biopics, director Paolo Sorrentino's film is pure, exuberant razzle-dazzle, including ironic voice-over, playful g...