Step Up 3D (2010) Beobachten Film

While director Jon M. Chu's acrobatic cast proves adept at moonwalks and break-dances -- and even tangos and tap -- not a one displays anything even closely approximating charisma.. The main reason to see Step Up 3D is for the high-energy dancing and innovative camerawork, and on those points it delivers.. Even by the standards of the current run of mediocre comic-book movies, this one stands out for its egregious shoddiness.. The superhero genre is the home-court of the underdog, of skinny Pete...

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Pompeii (2014) 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.. Narrative has never been Anderson's strength; the story here is a corny overhaul of James Cameron's already-corny Titanic.. Hayek swings for the fences, but none of the gags she's tasked with delivering are funny, not even when she desperately pantomimes various breathless expressions men make when they orgasm.. Music perfectly fit...

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Alexander (2004) Film Abspielen

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.. It's boring here and exciting there. And it's almost always goofy.. . Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.. Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence.. As huge a travesty and a bore as 1956's Alexander the Gr...

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King Kong (2005) Download Film

Jackson took a huge risk with King Kong. But the movie that no film lover wanted him to make is sure to become the blockbuster that everyone is going to want to see, and with good reason.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. Good things do come in big packages. The trick for any filmmaker is to find the small movie within the big one, which is exactly what Peter Jackson does in King Kong.. A movie can have a sup...

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Zwei an einem Tag (2011) Film Abspielen

Half-campy, half-compelling.. As so often happens with love, what you hope for is not even close to what you get, and in this case we are left with a heartbreaking disappointment of a film.. The film might make the book look less astute and interesting than it is, but it still has an undeniable emotional wallop by its close.. Rhythmically, athletically and energetically, Step Up 3D does not disappoint.. No popular storyteller ever went broke stoking the undying female fantasy that if a good woma...

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Eclipse - Bis(s) zum Abendrot (2010) 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!!. Anyone walking into Eclipse without seeing the previous two movies would be genuinely perplexed; behavior that barely makes sense when you know the story becomes truly nutty without context.. It appears to have embraced its own sense of camp and is consistently funny in an intentional way. For the first time, I found my...

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Focus (2015) Voll Streaming

A satisfying look at young unrequited love, bromances, independence and letting go.. We can't say we weren't warned. Will Smith has been telling us not to trust him the entire movie.. Young children are guaranteed to love this, even though it's rated PG for no reason (fine, "mild thematic elements").. Paper Towns is a movie that I really liked, but I probably would have loved if I'd seen it when I was 13.. The movie grinds down ... in plot details that fatten the narrative while deflating the sp...

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The Railway Man (2013) Beobachten Film

Unless you're a Hackman aficionado, there's no reason to bother with Heartbreakers.. . Too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone.. In the end, for a movie about such a grim and grotesque chapter in history "The Railway Man" commits the most improbable sin of all. It's dull.. . A morally admirable but dramatically inert case of high-minded reconciliation .... ...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving mus...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chroniken der Unterwelt - City of Bones (2013) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

"Inherent Vice" is an aggressively weird movie, which you should take not as a warning but as a compliment and an invitation to see it, to let its stoner vibes wash all over you.. Joaquin Phoenix is perfectly cast as the perpetually befuddled Doc, a private detective of sorts who immerses himself in pot in the Los Angeles of 1970.. The picture is all over the map. Nothing coheres.. Anderson moves further from conventional storytelling with each new film, and closer to something more intuitive, m...

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