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Well-lit little fairy tale with the nutritional value of a fortune cookie that serves up a neatly-arranged helping of cheers and tears for target audiences, and panics at the thought of embracing more than one or two ideas at any time. Watch Focus Online

This is the same Hollywood culture that turned the horror and divisiveness of the Vietnam War era into a movie about a platitude-spewing doofus with leg braces who in the face of terrible moral choices eats chocolates and plays Ping-Pong. Watch The DUFF Online

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Movie will likely be the most controversial and divisive movie of 2015, and it's mid-January. From concerns over the baldly anti-Muslim social-media rants it has inspired to titular real-life protagonist Chris Kyle's debatable status. Watch American Sniper Online

As a hero to his notorious unreliability as a non-fiction narrator to the confusing use of a robot doll rather than a human baby, the film has inspired both harsh criticism and lavish praise. Watch Jupiter Ascending Online

It has also smashed box-office records, largely thanks to the conservative-leaning South and Midwest. You either love this movie or you hate it, and by extension director Clint Eastwood, star Bradley Cooper, and especially Kyle himself; there isn't much room for dialogue between the two positions. Watch Fifty Shades of Grey Online

This reflects a truth that the movie itself seeks to avoid: War is political, and a movie about war is bound to make political pronouncements. Watch Kingsman The Secret Service Online

When you sit down to enjoy Movie, you are committing a political act, and your evaluation of the movie, and Kyle as a person, reflects your political attitudes. Watch The SpongeBob Movie Sponge Out of Water Online

But it's more complicated than the simple equation that progressives dislike it and conservatives enjoy it. Watch Paddington Online

Politics notwithstanding, those who've seen it tend to describe the experience in religious terms: awe-struck congregations of Americans seeing the Iraq War the way it happened, traveling down the path to PTSD together. Watch Project Almanac Online

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