Walk the Line (2005) Watch Streaming

<p>Aside from the dance steps, you've seen it all before.. Walk the Line is absolute standard biopic stuff, so familiar that it blatantly echoes last year's Ray, which similarly failed to do justice to the legendary Ray Charles.. For a movie about dancing, Step Up is pretty clumsy on its feet.. Fletcher ably blends ballet and hip-hop, but the filming itself is often clumsy, and Tatum's relentless African American impersonation quickly wears out its welcome.. We're never able to escape the feeling t... <div id="rmore">0358273</div></p>

Aside from the dance steps, you've seen it all before.. Walk the Line is absolute standard biopic stuff, so familiar that it blatantly e...

Moulin Rouge! (2001) Play Streaming

<p>Chokes on its own artifice.. [Luhrmann] gives you way too much of what you didn't really want in the first place: soulless high jinks.. So cheeky, aggressive and bursting with vitality that it can't help being annoying and exhilarating at the same time.. . The film dances; the heart sings.. Disappointing because it could have been so much more.. Moulin Rouge is a tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story.. The net... <div id="rmore">0203009</div></p>

Chokes on its own artifice.. [Luhrmann] gives you way too much of what you didn't really want in the first place: soulless high jinks.. ...

Easy A (2010) Watch Streaming

<p>It makes with the clever dialogue and it does present a world where a young woman takes charge and triumphs over peer pressure, but the filmmakers were either too lazy or inept to find a way to be hip and competent at the same time.. Whatever else it accomplishes, the sassy high school comedy Easy A commands attention for the irresistible presence of Emma Stone, playing a good girl who pretends to be bad.. It's a lot like being invited to a friend's house to watch home movies, but he keeps the r... <div id="rmore">1282140</div></p>

It makes with the clever dialogue and it does present a world where a young woman takes charge and triumphs over peer pressure, but the film...

Across the Universe (2007) Download Full

<p>. . Most of the songs are performed in such saccharine style and staged so literally that they almost seem like they belong in a Broadway show. That's a very bad thing.. Taymor has mistaken a deeply cliched view of the late '60s for a radical slice of the zeitgeist. Let it be.. There's a lot of great stuff here, but it just doesn't come together.. Despite all the inventive work, the film never achieves the soaring sense of bliss that would place it in the pantheon of movie musicals.. ...Julie Ta... <div id="rmore">0445922</div></p>

. . Most of the songs are performed in such saccharine style and staged so literally that they almost seem like they belong in a Broadway sh...

Before I Go to Sleep (2014) Watch Streaming

<p>The comedy is uniformly crude and lewd, some of it works and some of it's lame.. A magnificent mess of a postmodern musical.. [An] average thriller that's punctured with annoying plot holes.. Throbbing musical crescendos and flickery flashbacks abound but apart from some outlandish plot machinations, nothing here is good or bad enough to be memorable.. Mr. Luhrmann and his colleagues have worked like whirling dervishes to make the plot look like it's moving.. At the moment "Before I Go To Sleep"... <div id="rmore">1726592</div></p>

The comedy is uniformly crude and lewd, some of it works and some of it's lame.. A magnificent mess of a postmodern musical.. [An] avera...

Step Up (2006) Watch Full Movie

<p>Fletcher ably blends ballet and hip-hop, but the filming itself is often clumsy, and Tatum's relentless African American impersonation quickly wears out its welcome.. Until the movie stumbles under the weight of its noble intentions and its tediously formulaic story, it delivers a few lively, well-shot dance sequences and some winning moments.. While Tatum has rough charm, Dewan is more dancer than actress.. A lot of movies are derivative. What makes Step Up particularly dispiriting is that it h... <div id="rmore">0462590</div></p>

Fletcher ably blends ballet and hip-hop, but the filming itself is often clumsy, and Tatum's relentless African American impersonation q...

Step Up Revolution (2012) Download Full

<p>While dance purists won't be impressed by the energetic and athletic choreography -- the dancers have clearly learned routines but not necessarily technique -- date-movie audiences will likely want to go out dancing afterward themselves, and that's fun.. The choreography is solid throughout, but director Scott Speer gets in his own way every time, relentlessly shifting camera angles to close-ups and reaction shots when he should be letting us witness the spectacle.. It's equal parts 'Flashdance,... <div id="rmore">1800741</div></p>

While dance purists won't be impressed by the energetic and athletic choreography -- the dancers have clearly learned routines but not n...

What Women Want (2000) Download Full

<p>. Any guy who sits through this date movie deserves to get to third base at least.. [Hunt] elevates what might have been a cute, familiarly plotted movie into a romance with real heart, sweetness and genuine emotion.. For a while, anyway, it's very funny.. Alive with infectious rhythm, likable characters, and slick dance moves, Step Up gives cliches a good name.. It's the storytelling that keeps landing on its keister.. Until the movie stumbles under the weight of its noble intentions and its te... <div id="rmore">0207201</div></p>

. Any guy who sits through this date movie deserves to get to third base at least.. [Hunt] elevates what might have been a cute, familiarly ...

Rent (2005) Download Movie

<p>Letters to Juliet is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy -- and I mean that in a good way.. A lukewarm Radcliffe, plus a wandering script, make for a fair-to-middling movie, but the raw material of this dark corner of Beat history remains fascinating.. . Redgrave is incandescent, and casting Franco Nero as Lorenzo was inspired.. That Ginsberg is played by Daniel Radcliffe might come as a shock, but the movie rolls on and you realize you're in very good hands.. Director and co-writer John Krokidas d... <div id="rmore">0294870</div></p>

Letters to Juliet is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy -- and I mean that in a good way.. A lukewarm Radcliffe, plus a wandering script, make...

Corpse Bride (2005) Download Full

<p>By the time two hours had dragged by, I felt a lot like I had sat through a five-hour wedding.. It's not a movie for people looking for a decorous night at the movies. It is a film, though, for folks eager for some good dirty jokes, some refreshingly real female characters - and, just maybe, a new comic voice.. The star and co-writer of Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig, puts herself and her female co-stars through the comedy wringer.. Onetime Saturday Night Live castmates Wiig and Rudolph make Annie an... <div id="rmore">0121164</div></p>

By the time two hours had dragged by, I felt a lot like I had sat through a five-hour wedding.. It's not a movie for people looking for ...

Rock of Ages (2012) Full Movie Streaming

<p>However you play up this material -- as camp, melodrama, anthem, or goof -- it sags under the weight of its lightweight pretensions.. As doomed wartime romances go, the film doesn't offer anything particularly original. But with palpable tension and poignancy, Suite Francaise is fine filmmaking well worth watching.. Don't stop believing. Just avoid cliched musicals that try to capture the anarchic spirit of rock with trite commercial re-treads.. ...a cinematic endeavor that, for all intents and ... <div id="rmore">1336608</div></p>

However you play up this material -- as camp, melodrama, anthem, or goof -- it sags under the weight of its lightweight pretensions.. As doo...

Almost Famous (2000) Play Movie

<p>The moral education that follows is fairly predictable ... but Crowe follows its contours with a sharp eye for detail and genuine sympathy for the pathos of some of the delusions involved.. Even more than most versions of "Anna Karenina," this chamber piece is heated by two combustible characters, not by the winds of war and peace.. You don't merely watch Joe Wright's sumptuous "Anna Karenina," but you waltz with it, run with it, whirl with it.. So can we somehow make a bargain with the film wor... <div id="rmore">0181875</div></p>

The moral education that follows is fairly predictable ... but Crowe follows its contours with a sharp eye for detail and genuine sympathy f...

It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) Full Streaming

<p>. The film itself is fairly slight: I'm not sure what it adds up to. Still, I enjoyed every moment.... Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the film's co-writing-directing team, are too principled to tip the film into the slacker reaches of sorrow.. With the most wooden leads of the series to date - an MMA fighter and a "So You Think You Can Dance" alum - the drama between the dancing has never felt more interminable.. The acting is strong, with Galifianakis doing an especially good job as the likeable Bo... <div id="rmore">0804497</div></p>

. The film itself is fairly slight: I'm not sure what it adds up to. Still, I enjoyed every moment.... Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the fi...

Sex Drive (2008) Watch Full Movie

<p>Just slightly funnier than you'd expect, this dashed-off teen comedy cribs from a thousand other movies, without coming up with anything original of its own.. The colors and songs all come together to form a movie that is like no other before it.. Chokes on its own artifice.. Moulin Rouge is a tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story.. Once you strip Sex Drive of its naughty bits, all the sex, swearing and loud, ... <div id="rmore">1135985</div></p>

Just slightly funnier than you'd expect, this dashed-off teen comedy cribs from a thousand other movies, without coming up with anything...

Center Stage (2000) Watch Full Movie

<p>[Director Mottola] coaxes a set of uniformly credible performances from his ensemble cast, and makes effective use of a soundtrack that's as eclectic as the characters.. Adventureland, Greg Mottola's tale of coming of age in Pittsburgh in 1987, has the note-perfect melancholy of a classic young adult novel.. . As a sweet-natured character comedy - and a subtle exercise in generic boundary-pushing - this is a real charmer.. . Center Stage has moments of joy and moments of insight.. The youths of ... <div id="rmore">0210616</div></p>

[Director Mottola] coaxes a set of uniformly credible performances from his ensemble cast, and makes effective use of a soundtrack that'...

The New World (2005) Download Full

<p>Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Malick has a gorgeous talent for capturing supernal landscapes, for conveying their sorrow, and it would be a loss if he stopped directing again at a time when Hollywood is more starved than ever before for the personal touch.. 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!!. New... <div id="rmore">0402399</div></p>

Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Malick has a gorgeous talent for capturing supernal landscape...

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) Download Movie

<p>It proves Mottola has a sweet sensibility for intimate grins, as well as broad yuks.. With a plot that is constructed entirely out of formula situations and familiar plot elements, Center Stage feels like a rerun of Flashdance grafted onto The Cutting Edge.. . Embarrassingly enjoyable.. Unfortunately, in between the dance sequences, the actors are allowed to talk. This is a problem.. . Thanks to an exceptionally deft touch, Mottola manages to capture the absurdity and anguish of young adulthood,... <div id="rmore">0368933</div></p>

It proves Mottola has a sweet sensibility for intimate grins, as well as broad yuks.. With a plot that is constructed entirely out of formul...

Hairspray (2007) Online Streaming

<p>Hairspray is a wondrously entertaining ball of spunky musical numbers, talent set free and fun, fun, fun, with just enough of a message to make it sizzle all the more. Don't miss it.. John Travolta is no Divine. And this shiny musical just doesn't have the crazy, messy charm of John Waters' original.. It is the most deliriously enjoyable movie in a summer that hasn't been exactly packed with old-fashioned moviegoing pleasure.. Hairspray is one of the most enjoyable translations of a Broadway mus... <div id="rmore">0427327</div></p>

Hairspray is a wondrously entertaining ball of spunky musical numbers, talent set free and fun, fun, fun, with just enough of a message to m...

Shanghai (2010) Download Movie

<p>Hairspray is a wondrously entertaining ball of spunky musical numbers, talent set free and fun, fun, fun, with just enough of a message to make it sizzle all the more. Don't miss it.. It's amiable, it's bouncy, it's got a sweet unknown in the lead flanked by a cast of bankable stars and, providing as it does an amiable and bouncy and sweet escape from a summer's worth of clunky blockbusters.. It has a cheap, slapdash look that indicates no one behind the camera was interested in anything other t... <div id="rmore">1092634</div></p>

Hairspray is a wondrously entertaining ball of spunky musical numbers, talent set free and fun, fun, fun, with just enough of a message to m...

Top Five (2014) Watch Streaming

<p>. Welcome back, Chris Rock.. Raunchy in extremis, often funny and at times touching, "Top Five" is Chris Rock's sincere attempt to craft a film career largely detached from his stand-up clowning.. Across the Universe is a classic example of ambition exceeding execution.. There's a lot of great stuff here, but it just doesn't come together.. . Even those resistant to or unmoved by the story can appreciate Taymor's settings of the songs, and the arrangements by T-Bone Burnett and other studio mast... <div id="rmore">2784678</div></p>

. Welcome back, Chris Rock.. Raunchy in extremis, often funny and at times touching, "Top Five" is Chris Rock's sincere attemp...