Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter (2014) Download Film

What in the name of God is wrong with me that I didn't cry once -- I, who just the day before wept through the entirety of my child's thoroughly upbeat school play.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. There's a moment when the breeziness powering the story goes away and medical reality takes over, and Elgort's performance goes to a surprising new place.. The film dodges most of the pitfalls of cliched cancer dramas with humor and natural w...

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Pans Labyrinth (2006) Online-Streaming-

Pan's Labyrinth is del Toro's home run. He's delivered a film full of power, beauty, horror and, ultimately, sadness.. Attention to details give Fury heft and value, as does solid acting, but Ayer seems to lose his resolve in two scenes that are straight out of a Sgt. Fury Marvel Comics episode, or maybe a Hollywood script rewrite.. The creator of such pulp prodigies as Hellboy and Blade II, del Toro mingles myth and history in Pan's Labyrinth, and produces a masterpiece of magical realism.. Fur...

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There Will Be Blood (2007) Online-Streaming-

It's hard to tell if director and co-writer Ariel Kleiman is being serious or sarcastic with a story this preposterous.. The half-dozen chapters vary in length and subject matter, but not in style or the efficiency of their message.. Damian Szifron spins a series of superior yarns, all of them unpredictable yet at the same time recognizably human. Any anthology film runs the risk of being judged by its weakest link, but there's not a single dud in the bunch.. Sprawling yet cramped, There Will Be...

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Der Butler (2013) Download Film

The director's sometimes absurd bravado-along with Forest Whitaker's grave, wise performance in the title role-is what gives this outsized and sometimes lumbering film its irrefutable emotional power.. Ultimately "Shame" emerges as a sex tragedy, and a story without an end; it stays with you, like the film's frequent cold rain, hard to watch and harder to forget.. The Butler is an inspiring and important summation of the black struggle.. Despite the impression you may have gotten strolling some ...

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City of McFarland (2015) Download Voll

[Costner] could have sailed through this film but he gives his role an ingrained orneriness and melancholy that lifts the entire enterprise.. All this is initially fascinating, and then progressively less so.. Based on the true story of a fledgling high school cross country team from an economically depressed Latino community, McFarland neatly delivers an uncomplicated, heartwarming message.. A movie to savour.. It holds us, spellbound and amused, for all of its loony and luscious, exasperating ...

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St. Vincent (2014) Film-Streaming

It's a Count for our times.. If St. Vincent flirts with sappiness - it does, and how - Melfi has struck gold in the pairing of Murray and Lieberher.. A mediocre production that nevertheless will strike a deep and resonant chord with viewers.. It's a fine, old-fashioned-movie movie, which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance.. St. Vincent is no conventional hagiography but it's the movie world's equivalent - a star vehicle. Give director Melfi credit for knowing...

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Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit (2014) Online-Streaming-

What shines through loud and clear, though, is the humanity in Hawking's incredible story.. Redmayne should be getting a lot of notice for his performance; it's palpable, it's poignant. Jones, too, is terrific.. "The Theory of Everything" is mostly a conventional biopic about two very unconventional people, and it rests comfortably in the hands of the two actors playing Stephen and Jane.. As though it were the easiest thing in the world, "The Theory of Everything" juggles and elaborates on the t...

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