Das erstaunliche Leben des Walter Mitty (2013) Online-Streaming-

This is Washington's movie from beginning to end, and full of little layers.. A straightforward morality play crossed with a pretty good nail-biter.. Just a couple of hours with Washington reclining within the contours of a role until a piece of cardboard becomes a character.. Shameless, though effective, melodrama.. Flight is a well-made motion picture, but not a fun or entertaining one.. This is a notably more upbeat attitude than the original short story had and Stiller sells it well.. It's a...

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The First Time (2012) Film-Streaming

Mildly diverting celebration of loserdom.. All indie-movie families may start out unhappy in their own way, but by the time the final credits roll, everyone remains complacent, confident of their brood's superiority.. Unlike so many films that force life lessons down your throat, Little Miss Sunshine weaves them into the fabric of the story.. Hilarious, profane and as much fun as you are going to have in a theater this summer.. ... a film of small and gratifying surprises.. The highest praise th...

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Snowpiercer (2013) Film Abspielen

In different hands, Snowpiercer might have been just another generic action movie. Yet with South Korean director Bong Joon-ho at the helm, it's instead something more off-kilter and more disturbingly satisfying.. As with The Host, the political satire is teased out gradually as the story progresses and never intrudes on one's enjoyment of the movie's richly imagined world.. The sheer perversity of Neeson's thrillers is a big part of their delight.. With all due respect for Harris's ability to o...

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Captain Phillips (2013) Voll Streaming

This is acting of the highest order in a movie that raises the bar on what a true-life action thriller can do.. Captain Phillips manages to expose us to a few things that are unusual in a thriller, including sympathy for the enemy and, in Hanks's performance, the frailty that is the other side of heroism.. Director Paul Greengrass' treatment of this material - and Tom Hanks' extraordinary performance - makes the movie required viewing for the informed and uninformed alike.. Captain Phillips puts...

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Inglourious Basterds (2009) Voll Streaming

The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. I don't know if I've ever seen a revenge fantasy so willfully messed up, sometimes offensively so, that still manages to be worthwhile for whole sections of its 2 1/2 hours. The opening is as good a sequence as Tarantino has ever created.. Like a bat to the head, it's not too subtle, but you can't help but watch.. The excellent performances by th...

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Ex Machina (2015) Film Abspielen

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 excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Alex Garland brilliantly brings the past into the present with the near-future tale Ex Machina, a stark but dazzling meditation on intelligence, consciousness and morality that discreetly uses special effects in...

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Foxcatcher (2014) Streaming-

The year's best cast, including a phenomenal Carell, makes up for slow pacing in the latest drama from the director of "Capote.". It's too bad then that the film...doesn't live up to Carell's memorable performance. As chilly as du Pont's mansion on a winter's night, Foxcatcher never quite comes together.. This isn't to say that there's not enough here, but just don't look for it all to add up.. At its core, this is a film about men doing violence to men. And they do plenty of it.. There's just n...

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