Infernal Affairs (2002) Spille Streaming

The movie's engine is the relationships and the characters' inner lives, all of it boiling with emotional intensity.. . It offers a fairly fresh variation on a done-to-death genre.. It overflows with psychological intrigue, something often missing from such offerings.. Beauty in its consistent, washed-out blues and silvers, grace in its understated, intense male performances and energy in its unyielding commitment to tone and tension.. What makes it special is the inner turmoil caused by living ...

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Winter's Tale (2014) Download Film

Clumsy and inert, a lumbering white elephant rather than the flying white horse that is the novel's magical mascot.. Not only is the story of magic, angels, demons and predetermined destiny preposterous, but the characters are also unconvincing and the dialogue sanctimonious.. Like the frozen expanses of its most dramatic settings, "Winter's Tale" is mostly hard, glittering surface.. It's so filled with high-flown blather about love, destiny and miracles that there's no room for enchantment.. Be...

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Harry Potter og dødsregalierne - del 2 (2011) Spille Film

This is the way The Harry Potter saga was meant to end.. Fresh and fearsome fun.. A convoluted, airless procedural that generates practically no suspense and little that's thematically resonant about lost souls and poisoned memories.. Dingy and dumb. Instead of a quickened pulse, it results in multiple yawns and a "So, that's it? Meh.". "Dark Places" isn't a disaster of a film. Instead, it's the definition of average, and we wish it could have taken us to some more interesting places.. My, how t...

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The Mothman - Mørkets Budbringer (2002) Online Streaming

There are certainly strong moments and efficient set pieces here, too, but for all the claims that the film, adapted from a 1975 book by John Keel, is based on real events, Pellington fails to sustain credibility.. Remaking Alain Corneau's 2010 French noir Love Crime proves less a comeback for De Palma and more what economists call a 'dead cat bounce.'. A throwaway by a gifted filmmaker who has run out of ideas.. Passion is pretty good. If you cared enough to make a list, it might be your fifth ...

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House at the End of the Street (2012) Spille Streaming

Tonderai steers the story cleanly around its queasy hairpin turns, perversely toying with one of pop cinema's most cherished cliches: the audience's inculcated desire to side with the underdog.. Goes flat and generic, substituting jump-scares and visual twitchiness for the psychological complexity that might have sold the horror.. Originality, or lack thereof, isn't really the movie's problem. Execution is.. Bland, bloodless babysitter bait.. A choppily edited, poorly timed mess with little cont...

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The Amityville Horror (2005) Spille Film

I wasn't shocked by The Amityville Horror, or outraged by it: I felt nothing but disdain.. . The original is still creepy, but this Horror will have fans jumping in their seats and talking back to the screen.. . Shoddily made, boring and, most shockingly, without a single decent scare.. You'll want to get out of Amityville long before the Lutzes do.. The startling thing about the remake is that it's one of the better horror films to hit screens in recent months, thanks to its refusal to take its...

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Saw VI (2009) Download Film

The Losers at least has speed on its side -- not to mention a bad case of ADD and camera jitters -- but all compliments end there.. Compensates for the mindlessness of its story by filling it with all kinds of clever, playful, stylish flourishes.. This script, by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, has a more lyrical bent, and a more satiric bite, than any of the other Saw sequels.. As an action fix to hold you before the summer explosions start, you could do worse than The Losers. It's no more t...

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