Mr. Holmes (2015) Download Voll

As someone who neither hungers for yet another incarnation of this character nor understands why anyone would, I watched in subdued bafflement.. Moses is imagined as if Scott met him on an awkward first date.. A mish-mash - part half-committed melodrama, part half-thought-out political provocation.. It's understandable that people were angry about the whitewashing of Egypt. But no aspiring actor of color should think of this as an opportunity missed so much as a bullet dodged.. It's a gentle exa...

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American Psycho (2000) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

A well-crafted yet essentially innocuous period piece.. American Psycho is seamless in its inability to engage emotionally, message or no message.. Vallee has taken a contemplative book where, frankly, very little happens and transformed it into a gut-punching drama.. Well-filmed, well-acted and certainly riveting, American Psycho nonetheless is a movie without heart about a man without heart.. Funny-one-minute, horrifying-the-next film.. Not since June Carter Cash in Walk the Line has Witherspo...

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Spooks - Verräter in den eigenen Reihen (2015) Beobachten Film

A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side characters they all give convincing performances.. This is the single best movie I have ever seen.Thanks for your movie info.. A movie can have...

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Die Frau in Gold (2015) Download Voll

The movie's problems aren't small: It moves slowly, meanders everywhere and never quite arrives at a destination.. Despite a debatable focus and dubious moralizing -money plays a pivotal role in the final outcome - "The Woman in Gold" works, largely because of the odd-couple chemistry between Mirren and Reynolds.. Chef won't knock your socks off, but it believes in itself - and for Favreau, that's all that matters.. What it had going for it was an uncanny and moving relationship between Gosling ...

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Dope (2015) Download Voll

It's absolutely chilling to watch Depp. With bad teeth and a head of dramatically receding hair, the actor somewhat resembles Jack Nicholson in The Departed but deftly avoids caricature as he grows more sinister with every murder.. Dope digs into racial culture in a real way with Malcolm struggling with the fact that he doesn't fit being a geek or a menace to society, and it's a hoot to root him on as he finds his place somewhere in between.. A freewheeling comedy about sex, drugs and identity p...

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Hannibal (2001) Beobachten Film

Here's something I never expected to say about a big-budget Oliver Stone film starring Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer: It's dull.. It's hard not to admire Wright's bold approach to Anna Karenina's story of longing and jealousy and societal condemnation.. Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.. There are disgusting movies that are worth seeing -- Silence of the Lambs, for one -- and others that are m...

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American Gangster (2007) Streaming-

An intelligent, well-made and seductive movie.. What American Gangster does have -- what makes it such a commanding, exhilarating movie -- is a consummate love and understanding of story.. Every bit as generic as its title, American Gangster is a Frankenstein creature of a film, put together from the parts of other famous gangster flicks yet lacking in both the fury and wild-eyed vision the best of the genre have to offer.. Ridley Scott's gangster flick aims high and mostly measures up.. How muc...

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Focus (2015) Download Film

You come out feeling you've been had by well-intentioned crooks who aren't ready for the big show.. It does enough things right to earn a recommendation, but there are misfires aplenty for those who care to look for them.. Mostly, it is fun to watch Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and to marvel at whatever divine or evolutionary miracle concentrated so much charisma in the two of them.. The story is ludicrous...Yet Focus, Will Smith's mea culpa to moviegoers after the post-apocalyptic tedium of Af...

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Pawn Sacrifice (2015) Beobachten Film

The challenge of "Pawn Sacrifice" was to capture the colorful Cold War '70s, the inner strategies of one man's paranoid mind and make chess cinematic. Check, and mate.. Breathtaking and terrifying, urgently involved with its characters, it announces a new director of great gifts and passions: Fernando Meirelles.. After a late wobble or two, Irrational Man packs a final, farcical punch that feels just right.. Archived news reports and a Dick Cavett interview fit seamlessly into the dramatic recre...

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Irrational Man (2015) Voll Streaming

Were it not for Stone's chipperness as Jill, the film, smoothly directed as it is, would be a real slog.. If one of the moral responsibilities of the movies is to put you in places where you'd never go and live lives you'd never live, then City of God is great moviemaking.. At the age of 79, Woody Allen is still a formidable filmmaker ("Blue Jasmine" was just two years ago). But he is also, inevitably, Woody Allen.. In the end, this feeble effort remains tainted, however unfairly, by the creator...

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Run All Night (2015) Film Abspielen

Run All Night is a taut, edgy affair that features Neeson in peak action form and allows him to partially atone for the indignity of Taken 3.. It's that all-too-rare beast: a movie that's both important and engrossing.. If you're a fan of the "Taken" movies and tend to give action-hero Neeson the benefit of the doubt, our advice here is simple: Run away!. Directed, frantically, by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Brad Ingelsby, "Run All Night" promises a sprint punctuated by a lot of gunfire, and ...

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Gegen jede Regel (2000) Online-Streaming-

I'm not sure who appointed David Ayer poet laureate for the LAPD, but at least he takes the job seriously.. Jumpy and exciting.. A totally absorbing movie.. The actors, both excellent, get right into Ayer's groove. So by the time we arrive at the unsparing climax, we really know and care about these guys.. Boaz Yakin gets uniformly winning performances from the little-known actors cast as the players.. Ayer and his cast appear to have so convincingly nailed the way these characters talk and act ...

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Am grünen Rand der Welt (2015) Download Voll

Moviegoers often say, "Forget about the book, even if it's a 'classic.' How does the film work on its own terms?" But that's the point: On its own terms, it's bewildering.. The dialogue never leaves the surface and the running across Los Angeles that happens in the last sequence is supposed to thrill you, but it's such a cliche that your embarrassment extends to the crew member who has to follow with the camera.. You can smell the faintly salty air, hear the sheep's insistent bleating, sense the...

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Breaking Dawn - Bis(s) zum Ende der Nacht - Teil 2 (2012) Download Film

Fans of the series, which has made more than $2 billion worldwide, will no doubt find it all terribly romantic and deeply meaningful. The rest of humanity will remain unmoved.. This "sunshine noir" bakes your brain, in a good way.. Despite the film's frustrations, it must be acknowledged that Anderson -- a master of the multi-strand, multi-character, multi-meaning plot -- is the perfect director to adapt Pynchon, in terms of both craft and spirit.. It's about as exciting as watching David Blaine...

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Moon (2009) Download Voll

It's impressive, in the sense that a sucker-punch impresses itself on your skull.. Though the narrative is a conventional one, the well-acted, suspenseful story deals in fascinatingly murky morality and mines intriguing material from a historic and complex city.. Ultimately, Moon isn't quite the transcendent experience that it clearly strives to be. But as ambitious science fiction, it achieves liftoff.. Like Eastwood, it's a relic that dazzles you with its footwork, daring and class.. Clint Eas...

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Vergiss mein nicht! (2004) Download Voll

"American Hustle" may have taken its inspiration from the art of the steal, but it has a heart of pure, if slightly tarnished, gold.. A masterpiece? Probably. Ingenious? Absolutely! Unforgettable? I'll see you at the 10th-year anniversary.. The film zigs and zags, chasing after many different characters. And that sprawl, the rogue's gallery of strays, cheaters and deceivers, activates the film rather than deflates it.. Filled with rich characters and sharp dialogue, the movie turns on questions ...

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Inherent Vice - Natürliche Mängel (2014) Download Voll

More than just an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, the film engages with the author's literature on the whole, attempting a filmic analogue to his virtuosic prose.. This "sunshine noir" bakes your brain, in a good way.. The picture is all over the map. Nothing coheres.. Although it's not as hermetic and impenetrable as The Master, Inherent Vice still comes off as a giant inside joke to anyone who hasn't read Pynchon's novel.. Inherent Vice is a sun-glared, neon-limned muddle of noir pl...

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Love (2015) Film-Streaming

A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. 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.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. The excellent performances by the cast are a...

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Das Leben der Anderen (2006) Download Film

Just from an entertainment standpoint, wondering what decisions the characters will make, and what the consequences might be, makes for edge-of-your-seat tension despite the movie's quietly thoughtful tone.. This isn't a revolutionary or thematically rich motion picture, but it's a well-told story featuring solid performances and a nice sense of atmosphere.. "A Most Violent Year" is an engrossing, often beautiful film, and a breakout opportunity for Isaac, whose similarly self-contained performa...

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Drive (2011) Online-Streaming-

Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn neatly manage the hat trick of paying homage to those wheelmen of yore while reinvigorating the genre with style, smarts and flashes of wit.. This is no antic-frantic affair; instead, it's a cerebral game of stop-and-go, hide-and-seek, as the director behind the camera handles things exactly like the guy behind the wheel - with a stylish mixture of cold calculation and cool aplomb.. In reworking genres without quoting shamelessly, Refn proves himself his...

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