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On Demand picks

August 17, 2011

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THE INTERNATIONAL (Comcast Movies: Free Movies) A globe-hopping thriller in which the villain is a bank. Clive Owen and Naomi Watts are the heroes trying to bring down a rogue institution with assassins on its payroll. Tom Tykwer directs the usual mayhem with a fresh eye, and the shoot-out in the Guggenheim is a classic. (R; runs through Sept. 30) TY BURR

THE ROCKER (Comcast Movies: Free Movies) A grubby little redemption comedy that in every way feels like a consignment-shop Jack Black vehicle. It wears better on Rainn Wilson, the movie’s ungainly, oft-humiliated star. Wilson, too, plays a washed up musician reborn in the glow of youth. The tots in “School of Rock’’ have been replaced by Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad, and Emma Stone, whose band needs a drummer. Occasional hilarity ensues. Geiger, Gad, and Stone are easily the best things in the movie - so good that they make Wilson seem superfluous. They’re just good, smart, interesting kids playing lame music from the bottom of their hearts. (PG-13; runs through Sept. 30) WESLEY MORRIS

PASSENGER 57 (Encore on Comcast) “Die Hard’’ on a jetliner, with Wesley Snipes taking on a gang of terrorists. Not an original moment in it, but Snipes makes it easy to take. At its best, it suggests a comic strip version of “Patriot Games.’’ (R; runs through Oct. 23)

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