Monte Cristo (2002) Film-Streaming

This is the kind of movie that used to be right at home at the Saturday matinee, and it still is.. 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.. Old-form moviemaking at its best.. An unexpectedly entertaining slice of old-fashioned swashbuckle, the kind of sweeping, periodically absurd picture that was cranked out on an assembly li...

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Unbroken (2014) Beobachten Film

Magic Mike XXL delivers rowdy, raunchy fun, but without McConaughey, it's a long way from "awright, awright, awright.". This isn't a perfect movie, but it might be the perfect summer movie for 2015 .... Tatum has come a long way since his "Step Up" days (he was excellent in last year's "Foxcatcher"), but he makes a number of unfortunate choices here.. Matthew McConaughey has wisely opted out of the sequel - his character, stripper-impresario Dallas, has either passed on or moved overseas, it's n...

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Alles steht Kopf (2015) Film Abspielen

What's most refreshing about "Inside Out" is its inversion of the standard prescriptions of big-budget animation: It's ultimately about the importance of embracing sadness.. It's good to get your emotions in check before watching the exquisite Inside Out. You're bound to feel the whole bunch watching a child's mind come alive in the most imaginative ways.. As funny, stirring, unpredictable, exciting and riotously beautiful as it is profound.. It's all very Freudian, or Jungian, or whatever, and ...

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The D Train (2015) Online-Streaming-

The movie flirts with a great darkness about disillusionment and self-loathing even as it races around spinning comedic plates. Too bad the filmmakers lose their nerve by film's end.. For a vulgar American comedy, this is refreshingly low-key and generous. I admired its intentions without finding it all that funny.. Some critics are getting all up in the face of this audacious dark comedy for, well, being audacious. What are we supposed think about a movie that doesn't conform to formula? I'd st...

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Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes - Teil 2 (2011) Film-Streaming

Fiennes and Rickman get the actorly moments they've been building toward for so long, and the film is most fun when it sticks to mechanics: roller coaster rides, battle scenes, close calls.. In the 10 years since Harry's first big- screen close-up, the spell has never been broken. And we Muggles have been made better for the magic.. It has been extraordinarily fun, and now the decade-long saga has reached its grand finale. The best has been saved for the last.. The final chapter ends with an epi...

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Gran Torino (2008) Streaming-

If Mt. Rushmore were to make a movie, it would probably look a lot like a Clint Eastwood movie.. Spielberg knows that he has a great yarn here, and he's not about to let anything -- not even his own virtuoso style, which can elsewhere be effectively glitzy -- get in the way.. Gran Torino has much to recommend it, not least of which is Eastwood's enjoyable and slyly self-deprecating performance. And the supporting cast holds their own every step of the way.. The comedy-drama on release is actuall...

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17 Again - Back to High School (2009) Streaming-

If you're looking for the performance that might one day be characterized as Efron's embarrassing breakout role, this is a good bet.. Wholesome just isn't as wholesome as it used to be.. 17 Again takes a while to get cooking, and at times it just feels like a pale imitation of 13 Going on 30. Still, it's often breezily entertaining, partly thanks to Efron, who certainly knows how to be cute.. I found him a sympathetic, and strangely believable, middle-aged dad.. Despite occasional misfires, this...

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