Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

To the filmmakers' credit, they don't sugarcoat the creepiness. They mine it for the kind of laughter that makes you feel uncomfortable but also makes you think.. Little Miss Sunshine makes you want to gather all the kooks in your life and take a road trip.. Dayton and Faris satirize our win-win culture, but they don't miss a trick promoting Little Miss Sunshine for the winner's circle.. All indie-movie families may start out unhappy in their own way, but by the time the final credits roll, ever...

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Irrational Man (2015) Voll Streaming

Were it not for Stone's chipperness as Jill, the film, smoothly directed as it is, would be a real slog.. If one of the moral responsibilities of the movies is to put you in places where you'd never go and live lives you'd never live, then City of God is great moviemaking.. At the age of 79, Woody Allen is still a formidable filmmaker ("Blue Jasmine" was just two years ago). But he is also, inevitably, Woody Allen.. In the end, this feeble effort remains tainted, however unfairly, by the creator...

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Silver Linings (2012) Beobachten Film

An edgy romantic dramedy that suits our anxious times.. It's a rom-com that succeeds in revitalizing that discredited genre where so many others have failed, injecting it with the grit and emotion of realist drama rather than with amped-up whimsy or social satire or montages of people walking on the beach.. Pretty much a miscalculation from beginning to end.. Lawrence, in her most high-low, sad-comic turn yet, is remarkable.. "The Silver Linings Playbook" defies categorization: it's both comedy ...

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Jane Eyre (2011) Download Voll

"I Origins" slows down the longer it goes on, and the last half hour drifts into vagueness. The climax is dramatically inert and depends on the soundtrack to convince us that it's actually happening.. There are occasional flashes of the exceptional, but the film's dodgy story can't sustain them.. "I Origins" has the genetic markers of a formulaic supernatural thriller, and it's marred by some muddy metaphysics and fuzzy science, but the beauty is in the details.. Mia Wasikowska, from Australia, ...

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Der Babadook (2014) Streaming-

Credit writer-director Jennifer Kent for lending her Australian indie a healthy dose of brains and subtlety, giving it a distinct advantage over most modern horror films.. The Babadook makes a convincing argument for classy, psychological horror cinema even as it fails to meet its own lofty standard.. In the running with Boyhood as my favorite movie of 2014 is another work that turns on the challenges of parenting. This one is a tad more insane.. This is a dark and shivery story about motherhood...

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Das Versprechen eines Lebens (2014) Film Abspielen

After toiling for the likes of Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, and Peter Weir all these years, Crowe takes command of his own camera crews and castmates, mounting an ambitious and sentimental period drama.. This monumental tale of warring gods and men is a beautiful, dead thing, bereft of organic or kinetic life.. While the film is not in masterpiece territory, Crowe's aims are stirring, his point of view is confident, and his directing skill with his co-stars is firm.. Singh is a talented and eccentr...

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Run All Night (2015) Film Abspielen

Run All Night is a taut, edgy affair that features Neeson in peak action form and allows him to partially atone for the indignity of Taken 3.. It's that all-too-rare beast: a movie that's both important and engrossing.. If you're a fan of the "Taken" movies and tend to give action-hero Neeson the benefit of the doubt, our advice here is simple: Run away!. Directed, frantically, by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Brad Ingelsby, "Run All Night" promises a sprint punctuated by a lot of gunfire, and ...

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