American Heist (2015) Voll Streaming

Adrien Brody and Hayden Christensen work hard in crime drama American Heist but can't muscle beyond average material as yin-and-yang brothers coerced into one last bank job.. American Heist, I want my 94 minutes back.. Despite a few strong emotional beats, the crime drama "American Heist" proves as undistinguished as its generic title.. Slick but derivative and forgettable on all levels.. A run-of-the-mill crime drama that toes the risibility line on several occasions, even if it's better made t...

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Planet der Affen - Revolution (2014) Film-Streaming

For dramatic verve and emotional nuance, apes trounce people, hands down, and the movie suffers badly from the mismatch; all traces of finesse are trampled by the bombast of the climax.. Reeves directs with great dynamism, and his scenes of masses of apes swinging through treetops and swarming through San Francisco streets are rousingly staged.. This installment inches events closer to a merge point with 1968's Planet of the Apes while maintaining its own unique identity. It is in every way supe...

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Experimenter (2015) Download Film

Despite the story's freight, the laboratory shocks and Milgram's insistent melancholia, "Experimenter" is a nimble, low-frequency high.. Reading about these experiments is disturbing enough, but it's another thing altogether to see them convincingly dramatized.. Sarsgaard's sleepy, soothing voice and demeanor are bewitching.. Michael Almereyda dissects the life and work of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram in a highly stylized biopic worthy of its subject.. The word reflective suggests ...

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True Grit (2010) Online-Streaming-

In choosing not to reinvent the wagon wheel with True Grit, the Coens ironically seem radical by being conformists. There's truth and beauty in their faithfulness, though, and a reminder never to presume too much about these sibling ciphers.. The big names in the cast all do excellent work, but the biggest surprise is all but unknown Steinfeld.. This remake by Joel and Ethan Coen is being positioned as a truer True Grit, and though they take their own liberties with the plot and tone, they prese...

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Dark Places (2015) Film-Streaming

Even those who've read the book can be startled by what happens in Mr. Holmes, while they're being moved by McKellen in a role he's come to late, but with his customary elegance.. Crowd-wowing CGI spectacle and the inevitable if inconsequential 3-D effects make Exodus look like pure product, without any defining vision.. The movie resonates most as a story of approaching death -- the only mystery our hero can't solve.. Sherlock Holmes may have never really walked the earth, but Mr. Holmes humani...

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The Drop - Bargeld (2014) Voll Streaming

Roskam treats the material with reverence, and the working-class Brooklyn setting with a painterly eye.. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter...

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Tatsächlich... Liebe (2003) Online-Streaming-

This movie is so unfunny, uninspired and unoriginal I swear it could have started out as a club-footed Coen Brothers vehicle for George Clooney.. It's a rom-com that succeeds in revitalizing that discredited genre where so many others have failed, injecting it with the grit and emotion of realist drama rather than with amped-up whimsy or social satire or montages of people walking on the beach.. There are no fewer than nine interlocking and overlapping love stories in Richard Curtis' deadly epic...

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Beastly - Schau in sein wahres Gesicht (2011) Streaming-

[A] tin-eared, corny attempt at fairy-tale interpretation.. Stunningly bad.. Beneath it all, however, is a movie with a good heart.. For a fable about a magical curse, "Beastly" is strangely earthbound. And once it starts, it just seems to go on sappily ever after.. You have to admire the bravery of the filmmakers, who went ahead and made a movie despite not understanding the subject matter. It's also pretty impressive that anyone could miss the point of Beauty and the Beast.. Like Pettyfer, Van...

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Anna Karenina (2012) Film-Streaming

As huge a travesty and a bore as 1956's Alexander the Great, in which Richard Burton looked equally uncomfortable as a blond.. You don't merely watch Joe Wright's sumptuous "Anna Karenina," but you waltz with it, run with it, whirl with it.. By summoning his inner classicist, [director] Stone has made an excruciating disaster for the ages.. Epic in scale but not epic in spirit, a wallow in carnage that fails to demonstrate what was so great about this conqueror, after all.. For "Anna Karenina" t...

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The Town - Stadt ohne Gnade (2010) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

The Town doesn't reinvent the wheel. It just does what it does with great conviction and a sky-high level of execution. It also forges ahead with one of the best Hollywood second-act stories in recent memory.. Though conventional in many respects, it feels like no other boxing film ever made, due largely to Eastwood's unmistakable presence on both sides of the camera.. Quietly quite magnificent.. Ben Affleck's follow-up to his gritty directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, proves the actor/director/c...

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Vielleicht lieber morgen (2012) Beobachten Film

It is the remarkable Logan Lerman who negotiates his journey to Charlie's self-discovery with so much dignity and vulnerability that he steals every scene and carries the picture.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. A movie can have a superb story, ...

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