San Andreas (2015) Voll Streaming

Helo-flown and hella-dumb, the movie delivers what its ads promise and not a particle more: Semi-convincing digital erasure of infrastructure.. When you think about it, is there anybody else you'd want looking out for you in times of trouble than Johnson?. Top-notch effects and a bottom-scraping script make this disaster flick a spectacular bore.. Campy but never campy enough and far too numbingly artificial to ever drum up any real suspense or sense of awe, the film has a scale that's squandere...

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Picknick mit Bären (2015) Beobachten Film

The real pleasures are not to be found in the sweeping shots of the Great Smoky Mountains but in seeing how Mr. Redford and Mr. Nolte's characters learn to get along.. Robert Redford takes a hike, literally, in a genial broad-strokes comedy based on writer Bill Bryson's 1998 account of his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail.. It's a fable about what it feels like to be 12 years old and afflicted, from head to toe, by a romantic crush the size of a planet.. The film is frequently funny, always...

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Dritte Person (2013) Film-Streaming

It's all, I'm sorry to say, a melodramatic slog.. Plumbing emotional depths, Haggis turns the characters' tribulations onto the viewer: If white is the color of trust -- as Neeson's author writes -- aren't we all a little gray?. Third Person falls into a kind of fugue state. The lines between characters become blurred, their respective losses and heartbreaks dissolving into a melancholy vapor. Or vapidity. Take your pick.. It makes sense that these people all seem puzzled. They're pieces.. "Thir...

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Bridge of Spies: Der Unterhändler (2015) Film Abspielen

Depp's performance as Bulger is as strong, and as energized, as anything he's done on screen for years.. This vibrant film is a bit of a mess, but it's a beautiful one.. The movie is overly ambitious but never dull, and the ensemble cast is fun to watch.. "Bridge of Spies" isn't conventionally exciting, and isn't intended to be. Instead, it's satisfying-thoroughly and pleasurably so.. Be sure to stay for the end credits. No other summer-movie credit crawl is going to get audiences dusting off th...

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Whiplash (2014) Film-Streaming

At its best, "Whiplash" conveys with pungent detail the striving of young people eager to make their bones in a Manhattan that's as foul and forbidding as it is seductive.. [Simmons gives] a crisp and nasty performance. The bullied submit, eyes cast down, relieved when they're not the target of his hectoring. His insults are torn from the misogynistic, homophobic playbook.. A bruising, anger-scarred music academy drama not to be missed.. It's as much a horror movie as it is a keenly realized ind...

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X+Y (2015) Voll Streaming

At the core of this tender-hearted and moving British indie film is a fascinating relationship between a single mum and her autistic teenage son.. Parents and teachers of all the Nathans out there may be inclined to give "A Brilliant Young Mind" the full four stars; for the rest of us, it's small, smart, and satisfying.. When the film doesn't try to build up the usual suspense found in movies about competition, you sigh with relief.. Hawkins gives a performance of remarkable grace and sensitivit...

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Boyhood (2014) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

We can quibble with small stuff in Boyhood. Supporting performances are variable, the sister drops out as a dramatic character ... I could go on. But the cumulative power is tremendous.. As a film that dares to honor small moments and the life they add up to, "Boyhood" isn't just a masterpiece. It's a miracle.. "Boyhood" is a stunt, an epic, a home video, and a benediction. It reminds us of what movies could be and - far more important - what life actually is.. A love story about as moving and g...

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