Küss den Frosch (2009) Voll Streaming

A lovely toon destined to join the Mouse House's best-loved classics.. Director Palansky and screenwriter Leslie Caveny seem to have many of the right ingredients for creating something beguiling, but the film is, finally, surprisingly pedestrian. What a shame, with all these good performers.. An instant if minor classic.. Perhaps the best reason to recommend Penelope is that it offers an opportunity to watch Catherine O'Hara in action as the alarming Mrs. Wilhern.. Randy Newman provides the sco...

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Spring - Love is a Monster (2015) Voll Streaming

. It's a sprawling experiment in philosophical time travel and metaphysical noodling. And it's an earnest, magnificent wreck.. Lurches on a thin line between hyper-ornate space oddity and extended perfume advert.. It's refreshing to be in the hands of a filmmaker with a unique vision, and a pleasure to be challenged by a film's flights of imagination.. The movie may have significant truths to impart, although I have my doubts, but it feels too inexperienced, too unworldly, to have earned the rig...

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Scott Pilgrim gegen den Rest der Welt (2010) Online-Streaming-

Anderson's best feature since Rushmore, in part because, like that film, it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.. The film is like a tough exam that everybody aced. The director, the actresses, the moviegoer - we all deserve a tres bien.. A great movie.. I bet ten years from now this will be the norm. For now, it's almost revolutionary.. Cramming every frame with as much visual and aural material a...

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Der große Gatsby (2013) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

"The Theory of Everything" is a brainy bio that exerts a gravitational pull on the heartstrings.. This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote "The Great Gatsby" while living on Long Island and in Europe.. A well-made, well-acted but unexceptional film about one of the most exceptional figures of the last half-century.. As unlikely as it might seem, high-energy director Baz Luhrmann has in fact crafted a somnambulant motion picture.. Baz Luhrmann's razzmatazz and bomba...

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Die drei Musketiere (2011) Beobachten Film

. Call it the Robert Downey Jr. Meets Sherlock Holmes Effect. A classic popular adventure gets overblown, juiced-up, and generally CGI-ified.. Even the most liberal viewer is likely to echo Milady's thoughts of D'Artagnan: "You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.". Seriously: What the hell?. One for all and all for nowt.. . For the latest update of Alexandre Dumas's novel, Paul W.S. Anderson has added flying battleships and elaborate diamond heists.. I...

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Die Geisha (2005) Beobachten Film

Everything is beautiful -- even the squalor of poverty, the suffering of war. And nothing, ever, is revealed.. Its commercial compromises cripple it as a movie.. ... good-looking but not quite memorable .... Memoirs of a Geisha is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.. . . Memoirs of a Geisha isn't just drop-dead beautiful, it's cinematically alive with a spirited way that makes most contrivances forgivable.. Ultimately, Memoirs of ...

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Suite Française (2014) Streaming-

This nuanced, compelling film offers a close-up portrait of a northern French village forced to host a garrison of Nazi soldiers.. Iffy scripting decisions can't thwart the romantic allure of this handsomely crafted, sincerely performed wartime weeper.. As doomed wartime romances go, the film doesn't offer anything particularly original. But with palpable tension and poignancy, Suite Francaise is fine filmmaking well worth watching.. A sturdy enough but ultimately overpolite entry into the class...

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Playing it Cool (2014) Download Film

You know you're in trouble when almost every character is given a name except the two leads.. A broad romantic comedy that submits the genre to such a rigorous self-examination it nearly tips over into parody - which would have been a good thing.. Proving that its chosen genre is best when its tropes are treated with a balance of sincere sweetness and wink-wink absurdity, Playing It Cool thrives through sheer liveliness, as well as the chemistry of its perfectly paired stars .... Screenwriters C...

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Tiger & Dragon (2000) Streaming-

Though based on fact, the film is awash in delicious and difficult ambiguities.. That Ginsberg is played by Daniel Radcliffe might come as a shock, but the movie rolls on and you realize you're in very good hands.. . You need a roadmap to find the hidden masterpiece.. . Dramatizing a passion for the written word on film can be tricky, but in his feverish Kill Your Darlings, first-time director John Krokidas brings creative desire to life with vigor and emotion.. So good, it reminds you how the b...

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Er steht einfach nicht auf Dich! (2009) Download Voll

Pretty routine, pretty forgettable.. . The film is like a hooker dressed up as a lady: It wants to pretend it has class.. He's Just Not That Into You succeeds more with clever one-liners than in its uneven scenarios. But it's light and entertaining, and its heart -- visible amid the cynicism -- is in the right place.. . He's Just Not That Into You feels like a sitcom that resolves each mini-dilemma before going to commercial.. The American male hypocrisy toward sexually active women in general -...

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Duell - Enemy at the Gates (2001) Film-Streaming

It's as if an obsessed movie nut had decided to collect every bad war-movie convention on one computer and program it to spit out a script.. . It's remarkable.. Smith, of course, is so cool he can afford to pretend to be uncool; but what really works for him here is the interplay with James, whose inner-wild-man dance moves alone are worth the price of admission.. A tense and artful war film that works both as thrilling spectacle and as intimate drama.. Manages time and again to deliver familiar...

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Sleeping Beauty (2011) Beobachten Film

Though Julia Leigh's surprisingly dull debut is meant to present the mysteries of a troubled young woman, you're more likely to wonder why its star, Emily Browning, is drawn to such demeaning roles.. Eros snores.. Browning is tiny and frighteningly exposed in these scenes, but Leigh turns the tables: In the moment of her greatest vulnerability, Lucy exercises a curious power over the Johns who pay for her time.. Sleeping Beauty is one of those self-consciously artsy motion picture that promises ...

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