Plötzlich Prinzessin (2001) Film Abspielen

The Princess Diaries is a march through the swamp of recycled ugly duckling stories, with occasional pauses in the marsh of sitcom cliches and the bog of Idiot Plots.. Notions of responsibility, surrogacy, rites of passage and the value of friendship are gone through, but the highlighting of modern tropes merely serves to emphasise the film's conventionality.. The premise is promising, but writer/director Rowan Joffe seems at a loss for how to handle the material; it all eventually, like Christi...

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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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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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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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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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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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Inherent Vice - Natürliche Mängel (2014) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

Cockamamie, kaleidoscopic, languidly compelling .... It goes down easy, like a wine-cooler shot with a chaser of Yoo-Hoo.. Anderson moves further from conventional storytelling with each new film, and closer to something more intuitive, more damning, more true. He hasn't made it there yet. God help us when he does.. . This "sunshine noir" bakes your brain, in a good way.. It's no picnic.. . . Even with a third eye on your forehead and peyote in your bloodstream, you won't be able to follow this ...

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Cinderella (2015) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

At last, a movie about teens on the cusp of adulthood that has heart, wit and soul.. "Cinderella" feels real enough to be sincerely touching at the same time it's visually inventive enough to be magical. We've all seen this story, true; but we haven't seen it told this effectively.. For all its gossamer, gauze, filigree and refinement, "Cinderella" drags when it should skip as lightly as its title character when she's late getting home from the ball.. We've seen the elements that make up "Paper ...

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Winter's Tale (2014) Online-Streaming-

Do these characters really care about the collected works of Godard? Not for one Parisian minute.. Its nostalgia and narcissism are ultimately two versions of the same thing, and neither can reopen cross-cultural channels. Instead they keep this story stuck in the past, frozen and intact and irrelevant.. Because it is fearlessly sincere and not totally successful, "Winter's Tale" is easy to mock. But it is also hard not to admire its willingness to go all out in its quest for the grandest of rom...

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The Best Offer - Das höchste Gebot (2013) Download Film

The movie's an eyeful, though, thanks to the intricate production design and many artworks on display; it's also an earful, thanks to Ennio Morricone's fittingly lush score.. Italian writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore... designs beautiful sets around Virgil, who holds the screen in nearly every shot.. An intriguingly Hitchcockian premise gradually takes on a preposterous air in the art-world noir "The Best Offer.". If its destination is patently obvious from the outset, the journey does at least...

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Das Phantom der Oper (2004) Voll Streaming

Benjamin Button is a film of mood, not motion. At its best, it is evocative and affecting; at its worst, an exercise in sentimental portraiture.. Where's Homeland Security when you need it?. Fincher's magic can't transform him from the coldly dispassionate misanthropist of Se7en, Fight Club, and Zodiac into a sentimental humanist, and it can't turn Brad Pitt into the kind of actor who can carry a movie like this.. Fincher's visual mastery and Pitt's charisma almost compensate for a gimmick in se...

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The Village - Das Dorf (2004) Streaming-

Like all great love stories, Ang Lee's is one of tragic romance, strongly acted by Heath Ledger as the most buttoned-up of cowboys, and Michelle Williams as his betrayed and enraged wife.. Dangerously dour.. "The Book of Life" may use state-of-the-art animation, but it derives its strength from the wisdom of antiquity. It only looks new, but it's as old as life (and death) itself.. A sweeping, solemn, self-serious chronicle of their relationship over several decades.. Lee has taken a story of ga...

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Verlobung auf Umwegen (2010) Voll Streaming

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.. The film's aim -- to dazzle and inspire -- is sapped by Cruise's vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance.. Twihards will appreciate director Chris Weitz's faithfulness to the source text, even as he improves on it.. [A] spectacular film!. The big tease turns into the long goodbye in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.. . An uneven romant...

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Vanilla Sky (2001) Film-Streaming

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] spectacular film!. 'New Moon' is also a less pretentious movie than its predecessor. Writer Melissa Rosenberg, who wrote the screenplay for 'Twilight' as well, has loosened up a bit.... If only director Chris Weitz had managed to tease out the real drama -- Bella's fear of aging -- instead of a tired one.. A good example of what self-destructive cinematic havoc ca...

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Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button (2008) Download Film

Fincher's visual mastery and Pitt's charisma almost compensate for a gimmick in search of a meaning. The more time Fincher gives viewers with Button, the thinner the character grows.. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leaves you colder than it should, and it shouldn't leave you cold at all.. With a running time of almost three slow-going hours, the movie definitely makes you feel as though you're aging forward.. Benjamin Button is little more than Gump by way of Dorian Gray. It plays too safe ...

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17 Again - Back to High School (2009) Beobachten Film

Can't we just watch Freaky Friday again? Really, I'd take either version at this point.. Wholesome just isn't as wholesome as it used to be.. One of those "control technology or it will control you" sermons that nonetheless enlists the usual heap of technically advanced special effects.. I found him a sympathetic, and strangely believable, middle-aged dad.. If you're looking for the performance that might one day be characterized as Efron's embarrassing breakout role, this is a good bet.. A dark...

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Der Sternwanderer (2007) Download Voll

One of those "control technology or it will control you" sermons that nonetheless enlists the usual heap of technically advanced special effects.. If you're looking for the performance that might one day be characterized as Efron's embarrassing breakout role, this is a good bet.. The result is lumpy and irritating, but 17 Again regroups whenever Efron is back on screen.. Despite occasional misfires, this Zac Efron comedy earns its laughs and delivers its life lessons.. Though the special effects...

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