Still Alice - Mein Leben ohne Gestern (2014) Beobachten Film

The great strength of the film is that it never resorts to cheap sentimentality. The facts themselves are hard enough, crushing enough.. Don't be surprised to find yourself suddenly obsessed with forgotten names and misplaced keys.. A film that benefits from Ms. Moore's lovely performance, yet suffers from glib contrivance and predictable writing.. This middlebrow drama presents the heroine's mental deterioration calmly and sensitively, though it feels pretty thin on the whole.. The movie's most...

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Ashby (2015) Streaming-

Trash gets hung up on the "teaching" part-looking to inform the well-off about the struggles of Rio slum-dwellers-and for too long forgets that Mulligan's novel provided a pretty good plot.. It's Wolff and Rourke who have to carry the load, and for the most part they do.. The ensemble is at once loose and pitch perfect. Hardly a one of them plays a wholly likable person, yet each reveals the despearate or stupid humanity of their characters.. For fans of the Coens... it suggests, especially on t...

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Verblendung (2011) Streaming-

This is what a movie adaptation should be: a film whose base narrative has its roots in the source material but whose soul can be identified through the images that unfold on screen.. When it comes down to it, this is Rooney Mara's movie, and I don't care if the second and third stories are any good as long as they are full of Lisbeth Salander.. A solidly crafted, creepily suspenseful thriller.. I don't think I've seen an actor do more with deadpan expressions than Mara does in this movie. Her f...

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Der Maschinist (2004) Online-Streaming-

Thanks to Mr. DiCaprio's raffishly dashing soldier of fortune, the movie is worth watching.. "Begin Again" is an ode to the indie-rock spirit, but its music -- written by Carney and others -- is as safe, smooth and Starbucks-friendly as Norah Jones.. Another sappy but engaging musical fable from the Irish writer and director John Carney, who made "Once.". It's a carefully layered, tautly directed and superbly acted psychological thriller.. Carney is on to something in "Begin Again," some handle ...

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A Most Violent Year (2014) Download Voll

A film that instantly joins the ranks of the great screen romances.. "Year" is a fascinating movie but, despite its title, it's fairly flat - the pace rarely modulates. A work to admire, sometimes very much, but not an easy one to love.. One of the few adaptations that gives a novel the film it deserves.. Chandor follows the psychologically penetrating tradition of Sidney Lumet, Alan Pakula and Francis Ford Coppola, observing crime as a microcosm of society.. It is an amazing story, filled with ...

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Spotlight (2015) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

What the film gets brilliantly right is how journalists can get co-opted by the institutions they cover when their interests converge. And just how much courage it takes to pursue a story that may alienate many of your readers .. It's that all-too-rare beast: a movie that's both important and engrossing.. Good old-fashioned journalism makes for great drama in Thomas McCarthy's [Spotlight].. If Spotlight were merely about putting the pieces together to break a big news story, it would be interest...

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Crimson Peak (2015) Voll Streaming

An extravagantly entertaining ghost story. Hiddleston could be our next Vincent Price.. As even [Del Toro's] last film, the kaiju monster movie Pacific Rim, proved, there may be no better conjurer of color in movies right now. His dreams, and nightmares, are in technicolor.. The old-fashioned good intentions of "Crimson Peak," like the house at the center of the film, quickly get swallowed up by puddles of bright red goo.. Is it too much? Oh, yeah. But if you like this kind of thing, too much is...

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