Das Phantom der Oper (2004) Film Abspielen

The movie misfires as often as it connects.. An overlong crowd-pleaser that mistakes a hackneyed catharsis for something more meaningful.. [Duvall and Downey] may not be enough to counterbalance the bloat of the rest of the film, but they keep it from sinking under the weight of soggy sentimentality.. This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.. The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized m...

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End of Watch (2012) Film-Streaming

Both actors are marvelous -- this may be the most nuanced and far-ranging performance Gyllenhaal has ever given -- and writer-director David Ayer is unapologetically frank about the dangers these men face.. Gyllenhaal and the perpetually under-rated Pena have a wonderful way of bouncing off one another and Ayers is wise to make this the energy that drives the movie instead of mere violence.. A visceral story of beat cops that is rare in its sensitivity, rash in its violence and raw in its humor....

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Gangster Squad (2013) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

Despite a cast of gifted actors, lush 1940s production design and suave costumes, it's bereft of inspiration, plowing familiar terrain past the point of tedium to impatience.. Very little here is special, despite the individual charms of Evans and co-star Alice Eve.. Slight and familiar but sweet enough for Saturday night, Before We Go is the umpteenth re-up of Brief Encounter, not that there's anything wrong with that.. A complete whitewashing of one of the most vicious and racist paramilitary ...

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The Gambler (2014) Voll Streaming

The Gambler is a hollow, overwrought and glibly cynical remake of a '70s drama about a self-destructive academic.. It's just like the Kenny Rogers song says: "You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." It's time for this "Gambler" to walk away.. The Gambler is a solid remake - a film that retraces the path of the original while carving out its own identity.. By suppressing Wahlberg's more typical sparkling unpredictability, this new reading of the character recasts him into som...

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Interstellar (2014) Download Voll

Buddy films have always been about balancing opposite urges. Here the balance mirrors not only what's needed for great art, but also for mental and spiritual healing.. The challenge here involves maintaining a believable humanity while also making an entertaining case that humanity is impossible without the proper emotional configuration. And in meeting that challenge, the movie keeps surprising and delighting you.. "Interstellar" is a grand undertaking, but in shooting for the stars, it loses i...

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Beasts of No Nation (2015) Film Abspielen

t is, at times, not the easiest film to watch, but it's artfully made and will leave audiences feeling as if their world has expanded.. Attah is an industrious little actor, but his fall from innocence is not delineated with the same force as the carnage.. Crippling despair and the most fragile tendrils of hope battle for the human psyche in "Beasts of No Nation," writer- director Cary Joji Fukunaga's grim, beautiful and achingly sad portrait of man's inhumanity to man.. Beasts tells a broadly t...

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Alexander (2004) Film-Streaming

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.. . Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.. It's just a wild, glorious, wacky mess that I found really entertaining.. Not just a bad movie but a bad movie of truly epic proportions.. . Seems too puny and fragmented for its mighty subject; it feels as if Stone, for the first time in...

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