So spielt das Leben (2010) Download Film

There's nothing unfamiliar or unconventional about the thoroughly charming indie rom-com "What If" - but that is precisely this movie's secret.. Long before the script permits the characters to acknowledge the obvious, you lose patience: Jump into the deep end of the bed already. It would be more fun and friendly to all concerned, especially the audience.. The dialogue is believable and funny, even if strays a little too often into the grotesque eating and toilet habits of the late Elvis Presley...

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Rapunzel - Neu verföhnt (2010) Voll Streaming

Tangled is lovely to look at, but if you're not a pre-teen girl, you may be distracted by the split ends.. It's Wolff and Rourke who have to carry the load, and for the most part they do.. Tangled is the best animated film from Disney in the past 15 years.. Burton might need to get further from blockbuster bloat in order to regain his formal mastery of kitsch. Right now his sense of comic portraiture is too easily mistakable for splatter painting.. A smart, funny, feel-good film -- from Tim Burt...

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Don Jon (2013) Download Voll

At least 80% of it is snappy, droll fluff, while the other 20% is what you get when you persuade Julianne Moore to be in your movie: in a word, better.. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's debut as a writer-director-actor resembles a porn addict's Groundhog Day, and not in a good way.. A genre film that gets a lift above mediocrity thanks to an overripe performance by Benicio del Toro as a slovenly, charismatic king of blow.. When you have the fortune of landing an actor like Del Toro, it's almost criminal t...

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Brooklyn (2015) Beobachten Film

The film takes few of the liberties you'd expect from its genre, and it conforms to an internal logic throughout.. I think I smiled, twice.. A soap opera of babies, poignant moments, minor crises, and lessons about savouring each day.. You may as well check your cynicism at the door, because Curtis & Co. are going to find a way to trample all over it - adorably.. Will Adam Sandler ever grow up?. Despite its familiar structure it's a thing of beauty, a delicate, tender period piece about nice peo...

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Der Zauber von Malèna (2000) Beobachten Film

[Tornatore] eludes sentimentality with a romantic vision wide enough to embrace the range of human experience.. The cliches in this movie are as ripe and plump and tightly packed as olives in a jar. But the surface is handsome, moving and humorous, and people are going to like it.. Makes something wistful, enduring and even optimistic out of humanity's basest instincts.. The film lacks a focused, compelling narrative -- perhaps because Tornatore is trying to manufacture a hit by juggling story e...

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Bridget Jones - Schokolade zum Frühstück (2001) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

. The thrust of the story is how miserable it is being a single young woman while still making it look like a lark.. Let me say in Bridget Jonesy fashion that Zellweger is an irresistible sex goddess, hurrah!!!. Yes, the movie adaptation is just fine, thank you.. . The movie is often clunkily paced and edited.. Yes, that's an impressive collection of actors. And yes, it's deflating to watch them wandering in and out of half-written scenes with no discernable direction.. The picture feels fresh a...

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Big Eyes (2014) Voll Streaming

Adams is lovely and tremulous, but Big Eyes would be even better if Waltz was in the same key.. I watched wide-eyed with dismay while the film turned as lifeless as the paintings.. Waltz ham-and-eggs Adams off the screen. In the process, the movie strands her character without an inner life, a psychology, or anything that would indicate what makes her tick.. It's a quirky life-lessons setup that, while occasionally earning deadpan laughs, tries for but never achieves Wes Anderson's patented mixt...

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Up in the Air (2009) Download Film

This is a well-made film, though sometimes unintentionally funny.. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the cinematic equivalent of a book on tape: a movie that watches itself for you and tells you what it sees.. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is so engaging so much of the time that it feels like a modest rejuvenation: evidence that a summer in Spain can do wonders for a writer-director who may not have outlived his prime.. A bittersweet meditation on art and passion and on love in its many guises.. Ryan is an...

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Big Stone Gap (2015) Download Voll

Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. A movie can have a superb story, ...

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Sideways (2004) Film Abspielen

With each new film, Payne and Taylor plane the edges of their wit. Yet this growing maturity merely buffs their work; it's not dulled one bit.. . Payne does know how to capture two kinds of male menopause. But I can't say he ever surprised me.. That Awkward Moment is pleasant enough, and it has some inspired moments, but they don't add up to anything that pushes the boundaries of the genre.. Intelligent, funny and moving.. The refreshing thing about this otherwise formulaic romantic comedy is th...

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Footloose - Es ist wieder Zeit zum Tanzen (2011) Film-Streaming

Footloose drags its heels to the senior prom and, when it finally gets there, shoves in one last punch-up that puts an odd spin on what should be an upbeat display of happy feet.. Every now and then, we need to be reminded that shaking your booty is something essential. Or, in the case of director Craig Brewer's Footloose update, shaking your rebooty.. Footloose 2011 is harmless as far as it goes, but on the dance floor and off it never goes nearly far enough.. It's a vibrant youth musical that ...

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Ich.Darf.Nicht.Schlafen. (2014) Download Film

It's shallow, it's silly, it's pat. It's... forgettable.. If the story is a smidge predictable, at least the movie is pleasingly old-fashioned and grown-up, with a '90s paranoid-thriller vibe.. . [Director] James Mangold's mostly excellent Walk the Line is designed as a Christian epic.. Joaquin Phoenix isn't Johnny Cash. But with the clip-clop of rhythms behind him, aiming his guitar like a gun, he puts on one sensational show.. If it weren't for the diligent performances of its stars, who injec...

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Der Teufel trägt Prada (2006) Streaming-

... a terrific film.. The Devil Wears Prada is two films in one: a caustic, energetic satire of the fashion world and a cautionary melodrama.. The whole thing is humbug, a giant ad for the industry it affects to critique.. The Devil Wears Prada is sassy, smart and sophisticated, a Working Girl for the new millennium.. This movie is so unfunny, uninspired and unoriginal I swear it could have started out as a club-footed Coen Brothers vehicle for George Clooney.. A fun, entertaining date movie.. T...

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Across the Universe (2007) Streaming-

A groundbreaking, rule-bending, expectation-smashing musical.. It's not a great comedy, but it's a raucous one, hard-working and ribald, and I like its spirit.. . . Hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.. The film unfolds in an impersonal, by-the-book fashion that threatens to become downright laborious.. . . [A] visionary attempt to wed a story of young love and 1960s war protest to the Lennon-McCartney catalog.. . . It's flawed but sometimes gorgeous and uplifting.. Across the U...

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Voll Streaming

Some nice moments, but not enough of them.. Will Condon's movie convert agnostics to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight cult?. This penultimate "Twilight" film is the best in the series so far. It's languorous, romantic, moody, and, in the end, horrifying.. [It] was supposed to be climactic. Instead, it's the most jumbled and tonally confused movie yet.. What remains is the total conviction that the ludicrous scenes are dead serious and fiercely meaningful. The result is not quite a laugh a minute, but ...

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Blue Jasmine (2013) Download Film

It's narratively uneven but the occasional lapses of focus are rescued by Cate Blanchett's riveting lead performance.. Blanchett is steady as she goes, delivering one of the most exhilarating performances of the year.. Allen is a famously hands-off director, and while this method succeeds on occasion, too many scenes in Blue Jasmine betray a directorial negligence.. It isn't always easy to watch. It isn't exactly fun (although parts are funny). Blanchett's performance sometimes overpowers the st...

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The Escort (2015) Streaming-

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 film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myse...

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Anna Karenina (2012) Download Voll

Seems too puny and fragmented for its mighty subject; it feels as if Stone, for the first time in his career, simply ran out of hot air.. Often deliberately arch and formal, the performers have been instructed to emphasize the overwrought theatricality of Anna's disapproving social set. What doesn't emerge is Anna's passion. Panic is more like it.. Though the battles have the blood-and-sinew bravado you expect from Oliver Stone, this three-hour buttnumbathon is hamstrung by a hectoring grandiosi...

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Tage am Strand (2013) Film-Streaming

I liked "The Five-Year Engagement," and then I didn't, and then I did - which seems just about right for a movie dedicated to examining how even the purest affections can be fatally derailed.. This is a watchable but rather drab romcom which relies too often on Apatow-school cliche.. Sometimes uneven and sometimes beyond gross, but more often it's funny, smart and different.. Some of the comedic material provokes laughter and some doesn't, but nearly all of it feels wrong. It's as if the jokes h...

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High Fidelity (2000) Film Abspielen

As for Mr. Cusack, there's nothing potential about his stardom any more. He's the self-doubting, self-flagellating, self-ironic soul of "High Fidelity," and he's great.. Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. A ...

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Silver Linings (2012) Online-Streaming-

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. "The Silver Linings Playbook" defies categorization: it's both comedy and drama, without fitting neatly into either genre.. Pretty much a miscalculation from beginning to end.. An edgy romantic dramedy that suits our anxious times.. Writer-director Russell is just the guy to bring out (and then calm) the manic dysfunction in these folks.. Going deep without resorting to trick plays, the ...

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Transcendence (2014) Streaming-

Soon the worlds of technology and humanity collide - super-medicine, super-intelligence, super-ecosystems, super-confusing!. The directorial debut for ace cinematographer Wally Pfister is always watchable, but the narrative flaws and logical leaps sabotage sustained enjoyment. "Transcendence" looks and sounds like a Christopher Nolan film that got attacked by malware.. Transcendence doesn't induce paranoia, wonder, or suspense. It's the most incurious film you could make about something as simul...

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Odd Thomas (2013) Beobachten Film

. If you've been panting to see Joe Pesci and Dame Helen Mirren get it on, hustle over to Love Ranch.. . Odd Thomas has high-speed chases, explosions, narrow escapes and masses of special effects-none special enough, I'm afraid, to save it from mediocrity.. . Alas, Brick, from writer-director Rian Johnson, isn't as clever as its conceit.. There's no denying that Brick is weirdly expressive, often when it seems most artificial. What begins as the most gimmicky sort of genre retread somehow evolve...

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The Lobster (2015) Streaming-

The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend thi...

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Margos Spuren (2015) Download Voll

Deeply mediocre .... Lukewarm as a romance, but the charming young cast helps compensate.. This is sensitive and often winning in its depiction of adolescent behavior; the characters speak openly about their vulnerabilities, which makes them sympathetic.. Paper Towns is a movie that I really liked, but I probably would have loved if I'd seen it when I was 13.. If you're searching for smart, soulful teen entertainment, you can start looking inside "Paper Towns.". Sure, it's a movie aimed at teena...

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All Beauty Must Die (2010) Film-Streaming

Don't look for gravity-bound logic here. This is cartoon fantasy, not a literal translation, although in its way it stays pretty close to Stevenson's characters and storyline.. It's a pretty picture or would be if the ominous music and camera position didn't seem directed at the man portentously lurking in the background.. "All Good Things" has the eerie power of a nightmare.. You watch it wanting to scurry off to read accounts of the real thing, rather than being caught up in the filmmaking.. A...

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The New World (2005) Voll Streaming

These whispered ruminations are beautifully written, but whose voice are we hearing?. The New World is a poetic force at once wrenching and soothing.. Malick is so content to tell the tale through mood that he neglects its meaning.. The New World isn't Terrence Malick's best, but it's guiding him in the right direction.. . A Terence Malick film remains an event, but he appears awfully disoriented in The New World -- less a seasoned traveller than a perplexed tourist, content to mask his confusio...

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Love Stories - Erste Lieben, zweite Chancen (2012) Beobachten Film

The mood lurches around a bit, and the film itself feels a bit diluted -- as if Kevin Smith were doing Judd Apatow doing Kevin Smith. And Smith, and his fans, are far too original to settle for that for long.. While I wouldn't call the role of cheery, foul-mouthed Miri nuanced, Banks and Rogen click in a way that Rogen and Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up did not.. Cliched literary trappings come together in "Stuck in Love," but the final product feels more like a footnote than a finished work.. Za...

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Monte Cristo (2002) Download Voll

This new movie version of the Alexandre Dumas classic is the stuff of high romance, brought off with considerable wit.. The movie won't change your life or grab a fistful of Oscar nominations come next winter. But it will make you laugh, hard and often, and it proves that sometimes girls just want to have fun.. It's not a movie for people looking for a decorous night at the movies. It is a film, though, for folks eager for some good dirty jokes, some refreshingly real female characters - and, ju...

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Jungfrau (40), männlich, sucht ... (2005) Beobachten Film

The whole film is about embarrassment, about those moments of clammy vulnerability when the world just turns and stares.. Warm Bodies is a funnier and pleasantly cheaper-grade movie than Twilight that aims to draw in both Bella & Edward lovers and haters.. It's worth making a date with The 40-Year-Old Virgin. You won't go home disappointed.. You'd have to be a zombie not to enjoy it.. It's a little long, a lot lowbrow. But The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a stitch. See it if you could use a laugh.. The...

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Party Animals - ... wilder geht's nicht! (2002) Download Voll

A genteel soap opera in which the sex and intrigue are so muted, so tasteful, that they practically blow off the screen in a scattering of dust.. It has all the obligatory gross-out jokes you'd expect. But for every stupid gag involving half-naked women or uncontrollable bodily functions, there's a clever, laugh-out-loud line that sneaks up on you.. After covering much of its ground at a stylish canter, The Other Boleyn Girl finishes at a plod.. The movie ends with outtakes in which most of the ...

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Urlaubsreif (2014) Streaming-

The film takes few of the liberties you'd expect from its genre, and it conforms to an internal logic throughout.. To get to the parts that are un-terrible, you have to suffer through the most idiotic plot developments and ill-defined characters imaginable.. Comedians often draw on childhood influences, and Adam Sandler and his team do it in the worst possible way in Blended.. [which] is like a Bizarro version of The Brady Bunch.. The romance is sweet and even effervescent, the comedy is homespu...

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Garden State (2004) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

His movie is sweet-natured and skillful, but its biggest problem is perhaps one Braff wasn't prepared to deal with: his own performance -- or, more accurately, the decision to place a deliberately flat performance at the film's heart.. A minor pleasure that will strike a lot of moviegoers -- those who think no one makes movies for them anymore -- as a major treat.. Garden State may not define an entire generation, but it has a sharp eye for the passive aimlessness that can take hold when young a...

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Der Plan (2011) Online-Streaming-

A smart, stylish thriller that melds science fiction, romance and Hitchcock-ian intrigue with surprising ease.. Whether running or kissing or running and kissing (well, almost), Mr. Damon and Ms. Blunt turn romance into a palpable race.. Cradled in Damon's solidly reliable hands, even a movie as extravagantly silly as this one gains heft and credibility, an impressive accomplishment when you consider that the entire plot revolves around magic notebooks and spellbinding hats.. Easily one of the b...

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New Moon - Bis(s) zur Mittagsstunde (2009) Download Film

Memo to director Chris Weitz and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg: Just because you make a movie about vampires doesn't mean you suck the life out of your story.. Weitz's pacing is so limp you're going to need the electricity generated by a live audience to keep from yelling, "Hurry it up!". A landmark cinematic event in 280 words, or one for every $500,000 of weekend box office.. It has an amazing kind of emotional integrity and intensity.. If only director Chris Weitz had managed to tease out th...

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Magic in the Moonlight (2014) Film-Streaming

Browning...proves that she's a fearless and distinctive young actress whose rigorously passive performance imbues her character with immense depth and mystery.. Eros snores.. I'm not, finally, sure what Leigh is saying - but she is a filmmaker with a voice.. It's a story told in quiet rooms and hushed voices - except for one devastating scream near the end - and it's ultimately a horror story, though one completely free of blood and gore.. A fascinating, erotically charged mystery.. It used to b...

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The Loft (2014) Download Voll

This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote "The Great Gatsby" while living on Long Island and in Europe.. Pleasing to watch... but [leaves] little lasting impression.. "The Great Gatsby" is a cool movie, in both the positive and negative sense. You may certainly be impressed, but you may not be moved.. Baz Luhrmann is exactly the wrong person to adapt such a delicately rendered story, and his 3D feature plays like a ghastly Roaring 20s blowout at a sorority house.. A...

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Wie ein einziger Tag (2004) Film-Streaming

The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side characters they all give convincin...

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Die nackte Wahrheit (2009) Download Film

As tasty as a quart of s'mores, John Tucker Must Die is a slumber-party classic that belongs on the same shelf as Bring It On and 10 Things I Hate About You.. Hairspray delivers an even bigger sugar rush than the hit Broadway musical, which had already expanded on the exuberance of the 1988 John Waters comedy that spawned it.. A cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy.. The ugly truth about The Ugly Truth is the f...

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Buddy - Der Weihnachtself (2003) Online-Streaming-

Falls short of a laugh riot but proves generally pleasing nonetheless.. Mr. Rush can't fly far on Mr. Tornatore's dialogue and workmanlike plotting, and Sylvia Hoeks, as Claire, doesn't bring a corresponding energy.. Sure, Elf feels a little too feel-good at the end, but what do you expect? It's a Christmas movie! Anything else would be the cinematic equivalent of finding coal in your stocking.. The movie's an eyeful, though, thanks to the intricate production design and many artworks on display...

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Freundschaft Plus (2011) Streaming-

There are humorous moments, and it's a bit less bland than its contemporaries.. After the heavy dramatic lifting of Black Swan, you can't fault Oscar favorite Natalie Portman for signing up for some romcom R&R. It's too bad she couldn't have landed a less generic vehicle than No Strings Attached.. Sadly, an obsession with raunchy one-liners trips everything up, turning a clever conceit into something closer to a sleazy, cheesy affair.. Portman will get past this speed bump with well-earned swift...

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Das wandelnde Schloss (2004) Streaming-

What you get, above all, is some enchanting flashes of classic Miyazaki and the nagging sense that something essential is missing.. Miyazaki's animated adaptation of Jones' book is a charming and thoroughly absorbing treat.. An insanely creative work.. Howl's Moving Castle moves -- in short, choppy, jumpy jerks that will never make anyone forget how fluid the truly great hand-drawn cartoons look by comparison.. The whole thing has the heavenly whimsy of Ludwig Bemelmans' illustrations from the c...

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Love and other Drugs - Nebenwirkung inklusive (2010) Online-Streaming-

Believability really goes out the window here.. They may as well have called this one 'Mis-Matched Sham Wedding Comedy #57513' for all the effort it makes to shake new life out of a tattered genre.. A polished romantic dramedy that won't change your life but might make you a little happier for a couple of hours.. But in Love & Other Drugs, [Zwick] and Herskovitz find a groove that delivers wry writing and smart cultural observation.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise thi...

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Eat, Pray, Love (2010) Download Film

Twelve years, one beloved HBO series, and two feature films on, the Sex and the City gals have been reduced to Bratz dolls for grown women.. At two and a half hours, Sex 2 -- like its predecessor -- is a long sit in the shallows, the equivalent of five half-hour episodes strung together.. It's worse than Sex and the City 1, and that alone is a remarkable achievement.. It has no plot to speak of, little in the way of wit or intelligence, and is about 50% longer than can reasonably be justified.. ...

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Juno (2007) Download Voll

Fierce without being cruel, sweet without becoming saccharine, and never short of hilarious, it's not only the best comedy of the year, but one of the best films, period.. . It takes Juno about 15 minutes to calm down and get its joke reflex in check. ... And by the end you've fallen in love with the thing.. Juno is a coming-of-age movie made with idiosyncratic charm and not a single false note.. Juno is the best movie of the year. It's the best screenplay of the year, and it features the best a...

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Singh is Bling (2015) Film-Streaming

Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. 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!!. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself ...

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Dido Elizabeth Belle (2014) Voll Streaming

[The movie] is so determined to be moral and good and optimistically anti-tragic that it forgets to be interesting, original, and illuminating.. The film simply looks lovely, never moreso than when Mbatha-Raw is on screen.. 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.. A good-looking and exceedingly polite film where perhaps a more complex one with...

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72 Stunden - The Next Three Days (2010) Download Voll

Suspenseful if not wholly believable, the main problem with The Next Three Days is it lasts about a half day too long.. It's a cool, engrossing thriller; intelligent, packed with shivering suspense, populated with marvelous characters and (unless you've seen the French original, "Pour Elle") impressively unpredictable.. The Next Three Days offers enough suspense to make it worth the price of admission.. Not much more than a meticulously detailed, very long instructional video.. The Next Three Da...

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Spanglish (2004) Online-Streaming-

It's a bit too Wonder Years at times, but the odd two-narrators gimmick plays right into the film's "flip" in structure.. A pleasantly nostalgic and well-intentioned family movie featuring strong performances by its young actors.. There are signs that a lot has been cut, and in trimming his film Brooks may have squeezed too tight: his movie needs breathing space.. Sometimes Brooks's ideas are legitimate, but his way of putting them across is dishonest. Sometimes the ideas are dishonest, but his ...

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Mortdecai - Der Teilzeitgauner (2015) Download Film

Apologies to Hallstrom, but an adaptation of a Sparks novel always ends up being a Sparks movie.. Hough doesn't stand a chance against shoddy pacing, horrific editing, and plot direction disastrous enough to make your toes curl.. A whirlwind of horrible British accents, too much gagging and not enough good gags, and weak dialogue that, while not exactly terrible, is terribly boring.. It's hard to escape the suspicion that the only people sure to enjoy 'Mortdecai' are Depp, Paltrow, Tim Burton an...

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Maleficent - Die dunkle Fee (2014) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

A keeper of a film, quietly dazzling. Every generation deserves its own version of Peter Pan. Until the next one arrives in 2019 or so, this one will do nicely.. Jonze encourages our awe at the mysteries of life even if they arrive in the form of technology.. It's an odd, sad love story, combined with a meditation on technology as an accelerator of social loneliness. Not a small part of it seems to be an allegory of lonely guys and their fear of women.. If, as you go into the theater, you hear p...

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Like Crazy (2011) Streaming-

Although Like Crazy contains some emotionally on-target scenes, the movie as a whole feels glum and artificial.. Attention must be paid, even if you occasionally want to throw pots at the screen.. It fails artistically but also philosophically, in that it rebuts the spirit of the earlier film, while offering nothing attractive in its place.. It's just the small story of two young people trying hard to decide whether this is an infatuation worth growing past, or a real relationship worth growing ...

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Coyote Ugly (2000) Voll Streaming

A shameless but very watchable piece of youthful romantic fantasy.. Does Jerry Bruckheimer have the same nagging feeling of deja vu as he compares each new screenplay to those that have gone before?. An authentically spirited popcorn movie.. A talented young cast in service of a project that's every bit as shrewd as it is shrill and silly.. The result is underwelming.. . Its view of women as objectified but unavailable sex toys is so retrograde it would be maddening if the movie weren't such an ...

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Wenn Liebe so einfach wäre (2009) Film Abspielen

'The Vow' is inspired by a true and wonderful story, but that doesn't make the fictionalized version any less ridiculous.. Writer-director Meyers, who's devoted much of her career to midlife American arousal, that she loses her sense of fun.. I enjoyed the spectacle of middle-aged people making spectacles of themselves. And I appreciated the film's gentle understanding of how the romance of a parent affects the children.. Somewhere the heart that must anchor a romantic drama has gone missing. We...

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Penelope (2006) Download Voll

Sweet as gingerbread, Penelope deserves to find an audience; those with a taste for happily-ever-afters should look for it, before it too-quickly disappears.. The message in Leslie Caveny's script is ultimately too dispiriting a cop-out. This story could have gone in a number of more inspiring allegorical directions but winds up your average bedtime story instead.. Director Palansky is trying for a deft, hip, modern fairy-tale feel, but the odd material, sprawling story, and complicated tonal ba...

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Love, Rosie - Für immer vielleicht (2014) Film-Streaming

Gordon-Levitt keeps things riotous for the film's first hour, and if he eases into an ending that's a little Hollywood-standard, after having so much fun tweaking form and content, I'm guessing audiences will cut him some slack.. Gordon-Levitt enlivens Don Jon with such a sense of swagger, as a director, writer and actor, that the film feels fresh.. When you've got Benicio Del Toro playing Pablo Escobar, the rest is just icing on the cake.. As a director, Gordon-Levitt demonstrates considerable ...

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Was Frauen wollen (2000) Voll Streaming

Set your standards on neutral, and enjoy it for exactly what it is -- mindless entertainment that will make you laugh but won't linger in your mind much farther than the theater's parking lot.. . It should be called What Moviegoers Want, because it appeals to both sexes, without pandering to or demeaning either of them.. . . . . A seductive conceit, a stellar comedic turn, a chance to plow the terrain of sexual politics with humor and intelligence ... What Women Want is a winner.. Mel Gibson is ...

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The Tourist (2010) Beobachten Film

To battle the logic of the film would be to swat flies in a hurricane.. So deficient in the genre's essentials - such as witty dialogue, intriguing characters and surprising yet credible plot turns - that you're embarrassed for everyone involved.. Star power can cover up a multitude of shortcomings in a film. Turns out stupidity isn't one of them.. In a year of craptaculars, The Tourist deserves burial at the bottom of the 2010 dung heap.. ... it's a bit of a shock to see this caliber of star po...

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Brick (2005) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

A movie with prostitutes, guns, boxing and Reno is crying out for the film noir treatment. Along with neon signs in the desert, give us some terse dialogue and some fatalism.. . What could have been a juicy, pulpy noir, based loosely on the real-life 1976 Mustang Ranch love triangle involving Joe and Sally Conforte and Sally's boxer paramour, instead has the dramatic consistency of rice milk.. Like the best noirs, Brick is a triumph of attitude, and there's no arguing that its brand of deadpan c...

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