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For the most part Aussie director Wayne Blair's feature debut is snappy and fresh.. Sapphires is hardly a cinematic diamond mine. But this Commitments-style mashup of music and melodrama manages to entertain without demanding too much of its audience.. [A] genial, entertaining, cliche-ridden showbiz story from Australia.. "The Sapphires" illustrates how the same old story - in this case, the one about a 1960s girl group and its struggles - can be freshened up through the novelties of place and c...

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Unbesiegbar - Der Traum seines Lebens (2006) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

Wahlberg and the rest of the solid cast sell this ESPN equivalent of a Lifetime movie.. The filmmaking is TV-movie-of-the-week dull and Robinson's ordeal is hammered home to the exclusion of virtually everything else in his life.. There's a sugar coating to the way Papale's story unfolds, but not so much that you'll spoil your dinner.. Condon and his screenwriter Josh Singer don't quite know what to make of this duo, perhaps because the men didn't quite know what to make of each other, either.. ...

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Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit (2014) Voll Streaming

If American Sniper fails at being a truly great film, it is no fault of its star.. Brashly winning and unapologetically self-serving.. Although Cooper succeeds in resembling and sounding like the real Kyle, this isn't some cheap impersonation trick. Cooper gives maybe the best performance of his career.. There's way too much inside-baseball money talk here, when a simpler plot -- one about a band whose apocalyptic vision comes to pass -- would have been plenty.. A shrewd and very well-made pictu...

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The Damned United - Der ewige Gegner (2009) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

Sheen's performance is controlled fury, barely touching ground as he presents Clough as being the very picture of a delusional fool.. The enigma of Brian Clough has long fascinated British fans. The Dammed United offers no easy explanation, but plunges into the mysteries of the personality.. The Damned United is a most entertaining study in obsession wrapped in a traditional sports movie.. Just as a great player can take an average team to surprising heights, Michael Sheen turns an ordinary spor...

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Fair Game - Nichts ist gefährlicher als die Wahrheit (2010) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

"Chasing Mavericks" moves as fast as a runner in waist-high water and wears out its welcome.. Naomi Watts settles for semi-inscrutability while Penn, engaging as he is, is encouraged, particularly toward the end, to deliver his performance from the lectern.. Floating atop the explosive breakers, like an overabundance of phytoplankton, is a roiling colony of cliches that stops at nothing to dominate the screenplay.. With a storyline as by-the-numbers as a square dance, the movie's one surprise co...

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It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) Streaming-

Lacks the universality to break out of its niche audience.. A raucous, uproarious satire of the dance-club scene.. . It's an energetic and vivacious film that will appeal to fans of punk rock worldwide and should find its place in the pantheon of great music-film biographies.. The movie works because of its heedless comic intensity; Kaye and his writer-director, Michael Dowse, chronicle the rise and fall of Frankie Wilde as other directors have dealt with emperors and kings.. Even at its very be...

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Das Streben nach Glück (2006) Film-Streaming

Will Smith has the right quality for the role -- he's an easy man to root for -- but he augments this by channeling some inner quality of desperation and need.. For anybody who ever has been at the bottom, or feared they were headed there, it's a reminder that there's no guarantee of luck or happiness in the Declaration of Independence -- just the right to pursue it.. There are worse ways to spend the holidays, and, at the least, it will likely make you appreciate your own circumstances.. The mo...

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Gloria (2014) Film-Streaming

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Machine Gun Preacher (2011) Streaming-

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Set Fire to the Stars (2015) Film-Streaming

Being accused of rationalizing the Third Reich and disowned by Zionist friends doesn't provide a lot of drama, but the relentless focus on figuring out how we are to think about the Final Solution can be compelling.. A film that ultimately says more about banality than evil.. [A] moving examination of the limits of human understanding when confronted with evil.. Sukowa, who is very appealing in some personal moments in the film, makes Arendt strong in a cool, logical, but humanly unrealistic pos...

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Die Königin und der Leibarzt (2012) Film-Streaming

Atom Egoyan's cool gaze fails to fully serve the boiling narrative of Devil's Knot, a story that seems destined to forever elude a satisfactory resolution.. A Royal Affair is historical drama of the highest order - teeming with big ideas, and anchored by the nicely nuanced performances of Vikander and Mikkelsen.. Mr. Egoyan's fascination and research don't really shed any new light on the case. Don't let that deter you.. It's as preachy as "The Crucible," with the score permanently set on "mourn...

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Legend (2015) Film-Streaming

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Pride (2014) Download Voll

Schmaltzy and formulaic, but also lively and sincere.. Some of the characters come from life, others are invented. The sterling actors in "Pride" draw no such distinction.. This film moves effortlessly from some pretty intense dramatic moments to hilarious scenes showcasing the contrasting lifestyles of the gay and straight worlds to some vignettes of incredible poignancy.. A funny, moving, audience-rousing experience, one that comes out of the closet without quite leaving the safety of the Brit...

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Low Down is rich in vivid characters.. There are too many notes that, while not false, are neither satisfactorily resolved nor left interestingly unresolved.. A lovely film that brings great emotion and a dead-on feeling for time, place and recaptured mood to a story that is as universal as it is personal.. Preiss soaks his movie in a brownish retro atmosphere, which helps smooth over the many dull spots, but only briefly.. Somewhere over the rainbow the skies are blue, that's the dream. Some ma...

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Million Dollar Arm, based on true events, did a fairly good job of keeping me engaged even though I knew exactly where it was going every step of the way.. The result is an entertaining mess: lively and stylish, but frustratingly inconsequential.. Once in a while, a movie arrives at such a perfect moment, its message and meaning so finely tuned to the current zeitgeist, that it seems less a cinematic event than a cosmic convergence, willed into being by a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the star...

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Die Morde von Snowtown (2011) Download Film

An impressive but exceptionally disturbing feature debut from Australian director Justin Kurzel that pushes the new wave of Aussie crime films up a notch.. What is it with first-time Australian filmmakers and ultraviolent true-crime movies about thuggish underclass families?. They make it all up, and it's still boring.. Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churni...

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You want to know where it's headed. But the movie is so chiseled down and sculpted that even once it gets there (you know when), it's unclear that it's earned it.. Director Bennett Miller ("Capote," "Moneyball") has a fascinating story here and he knows it.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. Carell is immersed in the role, complet...

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Party Monster (2003) Beobachten Film

As wasteful an example of indie-picture indulgence and incompetence as you're likely to find.. . [I] found the camera work to be very murky, the direction to be confused, the music go in the way of it instead of actually augmenting it.. Gracelessly executed, it throws out mock documentary, fantasy sequences and rapid montages, but still drags on woefully, and looks like it was soaked in dirty water.. This film feels fake, forced and indigestible.. In the end, for all the vibrancy, there's not mu...

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An American Crime (2007) Streaming-

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Kaltes Blut - Auf den Spuren von Truman Capote (2006) Film Abspielen

Even judged on its own, though, McGrath's movie feels slightly misjudged.. Jones wears the title role so well that you simply forget he's acting, which wasn't true of Philip Seymour Hoffman last year when he gave a performance that deserved its Oscar. If Jones fails to pick up an Oscar nomination, he should pitch a hissy.. Jones gets everything -- the gestures, the generosity, the mean streak, the bending of the ear to recitals of woe, whether across a lunch table or a prison cell.. The film ben...

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The Last Ride (2012) Voll Streaming

Zellweger isn't dreadful -- in fact, she's more appealing than she's been in years -- but she's not quite good enough. Neither is the film.. My One and Only is like a tale told by a first-rate raconteur, its twists and turns all the more intriguing because it's all true -- more or less.. Just when you think nothing will break the summer heat, in blows a cool breeze.. It portrays Williams in a generally sympathetic light without whitewashing his vice-loving, belligerent ways or mythologizing them...

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Erin Brockovich - Eine wahre Geschichte (2000) Download Film

Lords of Dogtown rocks.. Catherine Hardwicke, working from a Peralta script and stealing the look and verve of his earlier documentary, turns in a dazzling, edgy and entertainingly blunt riff on the gnarly and how they got that way.. Lords can't quite sustain this adrenaline to the finish as it eventually loses focus and takes a fall into sentimentality. But when it excels, it brings that electric charge that comes when a film's style is perfectly matched with its subject.. . Stacy Peralta, this...

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Experimenter (2015) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

Though "Raging Bull" must still go down as Martin Scorsese's greatest achievement, "The Wolf of Wall Street" makes the race for No. 2 a lot more interesting.. The movie is itself a rat-maze of one-sided mirrors, windows upon windows, anonymous hallways, compartmentalized instances of watching, being watched, seeing and not-seeing.. For Jolie, it's all about the suffering, without much meaning.. For three hours the movie operates at a ridiculous comedic pitch. You never forget you're at the circu...

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Unterwegs mit Jungs (2001) Film-Streaming

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Saving Mr. Banks (2013) Download Voll

Beneath Banks' crass self-aggrandizement lies a pretty charming portrait of two overly proud people butting creative heads. Yes, charming. That's what Disney does, and it does it well enough to turn even this condescending pap into something palatable.. Pencil Thompson in now for an Oscar nomination, and maybe a win, and prepare to leave the theater humming the iconic songs.. A good movie, buoyed by good performances from Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and, almost as an afterthought, an especially aff...

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The Railway Man (2013) Voll Streaming

Throughout, Firth compellingly plays a man struggling to make sense of the ordeal that his life has become. Too often, though, you can feel the movie struggling right along with him.. A morally admirable but dramatically inert case of high-minded reconciliation .... Watching the slow, cautious courtship between Victoria and Albert is so pleasurable, so surprisingly not-boring, that it doesn't matter how much of the ending we already know.. If The Young Victoria never transcends its fussy trappin...

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Julie & Julia (2009) Film-Streaming

Call The Motorcycle Diaries more hagiography than biography if you like, but it's undoubtedly a beautifully crafted and heartfelt one.. Perhaps the most disappointing thing about Julie & Julia is the lack of dramatic closure.. Whether you want to see The Motorcycle Diaries as entirely a personal story or as social and political allegory, it captures a far different and far more vulnerable Ernesto Guevara than the one we think we know.. What Bernal and this well-wrought movie convey so well is th...

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Der Butler (2013) Download Film

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Cadillac Records (2008) Film Abspielen

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Steve Jobs (2015) Beobachten Film

Is "Steve Jobs" the final say on Steve Jobs? That's hard to say. But like its subject, it should remain relevant for years to come.. Boyle films the proceedings on a slightly grainy stock that gives the movie just the hint of a documentary. There's propulsion and energy. He takes Sorkin's script and pumps it with amphetamines.. The Full Sorkin Treatment has electrified a well-trod subject. But it also smothers it in artifice.. Michael Fassbender will be in every best actor conversation from now ...

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Open Water (2003) Film-Streaming

The unforgiving power of nature are all on display to amazing, and frightening, effect.. . . We, the audience, shuffle out of the theater, feeling drained and punished.. The result is just as the filmmakers hoped. You'd have to hold a stubborn defensive line not to be moved by this film's heart.. . Gooding once again embarrasses himself in public with a performance that knows no shame, a habit he's getting frighteningly at ease with these days.. Please, Hollywood, no more inspiration, particular...

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Alexander (2004) Film Abspielen

Archived news reports and a Dick Cavett interview fit seamlessly into the dramatic recreations, as do era-specific rock tunes.. Not just a bad movie but a bad movie of truly epic proportions.. Despite his best emoting, Maguire ultimately comes across as Peter Parker with a mole and a bad haircut.. The suspense of Pawn Sacrifice is getting Fischer sane enough so that he can sit down across from his opponent and focus. We end up as impatient as those poor souls sitting in Reykjavik, looking at our...

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Yves Saint Laurent (2014) Download Film

Luke is one actor who is sure to be with us in a big way for years to come.. Mr. Lespert and his screenwriters tend to telegraph what's happening next with on-the-nose dialogue, leaving behind an orderly but not vividly realized biography (or necessarily a complete one).. Much has been documented about Saint Laurent and Berge in films, books and exhibitions, but Yves Saint Laurent... attempts to show the personal side of the designer and his consort.. Does a film with haute couture as its heart ...

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Lovelace (2013) Film-Streaming

Its maudlin third act mars what is, for much of the film, a pretty nuanced and well-acted biopic, as well as something of a cultural critique.. It's a fiercely thoughtful film, a movie of ideas that understands how powerful ideas can be.. "Lovelace" becomes too distracted by industry politics and the cultural context of the film's release to provide more than a snapshot of her life either before or after she stepped in front of a camera.. With the exception of good-natured porn vet Harry Reems (...

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Inside WikiLeaks - Die fünfte Gewalt (2013) Streaming-

By burnishing Jackie Robinson's legend to such an unnaturally high polish, 42 does Robinson the man (and the actor who plays him, the relative newcomer Chadwick Boseman) a disservice.. Robinson's story had so much drama in real life, and his sacrifice and pain made such a lasting influence, that "42" ends up being effective in its gee-whiz way almost in spite of itself.. "The Fifth Estate" tries to be a cross between "The Social Network" and "Zero Dark Thirty." Only it's more like "The Sociopath...

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Creation (2009) Beobachten Film

While the film's flashbacks and -forwards are disorienting, the performances give the film propulsion and poignancy.. . The film's attempt to depict challenging and thoughtful material is appreciated, even if the results are mixed.. For a movie that clearly seeks to bring Darwin to life, Creation spends an awful lot of time wallowing in death.. Some good acting and fine cinematography are watered down in a tepid yawner that moves with the speed of natural selection, but without its irresistible ...

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Talk to Me (2007) Download Film

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The Color of Time (2012) Film-Streaming

Another in a growing line of pretentious James Franco disasters nobody will ever see.. The film is too sincere an expression of admiration for this poet's work to feel pretentious, but it's like a music video for the poems, often literal in its biographical readings.. There is just about enough narrative to hold interest, while the lyrical camerawork, constantly in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature-length film.. Some of the fault...

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) Online-Streaming-

Often an engrossing example of the sweeping, stirring biography.. 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.. 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 this movie to everyone out there want to see an...

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Film Abspielen

It's hard not to feel there is a better revisit of Scorsese's crime gem already in theaters, David O. Russell's American Hustle.. I couldn't buy it, and couldn't wait for the hollow spectacle to end.. As with Goodfellas, Scorsese's helpless attraction to the very behavior he wants to indict becomes the movie's serrated edge.. For three hours the movie operates at a ridiculous comedic pitch. You never forget you're at the circus. You never lose site of the lawlessness, the reckless pleasure, the ...

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Public Enemy No. 1 - Todestrieb (2008) Film Abspielen

Unlike its more lively predecessor, this is more interested in dissecting the criminal mindset.. [It] doesn't dig deeply into why Mesrine was the way he was. It's propelled by such a forceful performance from Cassel that, in the end, it hardly matters.. Mesrine's life, however fascinating, had a certain repetitive quality to it (commit a crime, go to prison, escape, meet a girl, commit a crime, etc.), and the movie eventually starts to feel this way as well.. Director Jean-Francois Richet and sc...

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Der Ruf der Wale (2012) Download Voll

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Nowhere Boy (2009) Streaming-

Director Sam Taylor-Wood weaves this tale with elegance, spot-on costumes and production design, and finely tuned casting.. "A Royal Affair" is an engaging and entertaining film, one that might have been great, if only the history were different.. Taylor-Wood stresses the universals rather than the specifics of John's youth. So don't go expecting a Fab Four origin story. The word Beatles is never uttered. But do go.. Although the brazen lovers, bellicose ministers and backstabbing handmaidens ar...

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Quills - Macht der Besessenheit (2000) Beobachten Film

It breathes, it twirls, it prances right up into your face. It swirls over the top sometimes, but there never is any doubt you're watching a movie about something.. I'm inclined to agree with my colleague Michael Musto, who suggested that the reason various characters have their tongues ripped out is to prevent the actors from chewing away the scenery.. The danger in making a costume drama is that all of it will be as lifeless as wax figures. Kapur escapes this fate by relying on sex and a lumin...

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Life (2015) Download Voll

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Beyond the Sea - Musik war sein Leben (2004) Download Film

Not unpleasant to watch, but it's another movie in which the art direction and costuming, and, of course, the soundtrack, are of more interest than the story, whatever it is.. Beyond the Sea doesn't quite have [that swing]. But it's close.. . This vainglorious biopic about Bobby Darin is really about what the '60s pop singer and actor means to Kevin Spacey.. Many people under 40 may not even remember Bobby Darin, let alone know about his remarkable life story. Beyond the Sea may rectify that pro...

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21 (2008) Online-Streaming-

There's enough action here to keep you awake, but don't expect to walk away a winner.. If only director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb had not opted for glitz. As filmmakers, they're playing for very low stakes.. This is really Spacey's picture, from the moment he fixes his gaze on Sturgess to the day when he finally, brutally cuts him loose. It's a fun performance, but a quiet one.. The students are so blandly written this never builds any suspense, though it pr...

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The Bling Ring (2013) Film-Streaming

Dunst plays Marie Antoinette as if she's seen the future and it's Paris Hilton.. A frustrating shrug of ambivalence.. Pride overstuffs itself with too many characters and too many subplots, but the impact of these musical moments, along with a stellar ensemble of actors, make this an effective feel-good movie about fighting the power.. A funny, moving, audience-rousing experience, one that comes out of the closet without quite leaving the safety of the Britcom genre.. The director squanders a on...

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Sie nennen ihn Radio (2003) Download Voll

Cuba Gooding Jr. falls victim to the Nell syndrome, in which a vibrant, loquacious actor decides that the road to an Oscar nomination is to wear a slack expression and a set of Nutty Professor teeth.. The result is just as the filmmakers hoped. You'd have to hold a stubborn defensive line not to be moved by this film's heart.. Based-on- a-true-story kitschfest.. Please, Hollywood, no more inspiration, particularly if it feels about as authentic as canned laughter.. Rarely have good intentions be...

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American Gangster (2007) Download Film

Ridley Scott's gangster flick aims high and mostly measures up.. Alpha Dog is no travesty, but I would trade 95 percent accuracy for, say, 25 percent insight.. . [Alpha Dog is] intermittently bemused or tragic, but utterly lacking a conscience or a point of view.. In its title character, the movie has created a murdering, dope-slinging millionaire from the streets that even Denzel Washington has managed to make boring.. A movie which has been put together with occasional skill but lacks a compel...

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Ip man 3 (2015) Film Abspielen

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Ali (2001) Streaming-

It's good -- but Ali himself was the greatest. So a reluctant, kind of mild thumbs up for this.. . Loaded with bravura filmmaking flourishes, and exceptional performances.. Ali is a far more complex creature than this movie allows for.. The film gives Ali his due by refusing to idealize him or to gloss over his failings.. This could be the only movie we'll get on the fighter, and it's just not good enough.. It is well-intentioned, sketchy, sprawling and unremarkable. At two hours and 38 minutes,...

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Rescue Dawn (2006) Film Abspielen

The performances here are as excellent as they are unnerving.. If you're looking for a weekend movie that's heart-stoppingly suspenseful and inspiring, as well as brainy, funny, and strange, seek out Rescue Dawn.. Rescue Dawn avoids all the land mines inherent in most war movies. There's no hero worship; no noisy, confusing, special-effects-enhanced battle scene.. Herzog aims this genre effort at a broader audience than he usually gets, and he does so without losing his soul. It's a remarkably s...

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Amelia (2009) Download Voll

Director Mira Nair dresses that up with visual grace, with shots of clouds and sky that are beautiful and elusive enough to escape the tinge of cliche. But the basic bones of the story are the problem here.. Seldom has a bio's style clashed so deafeningly with its content.. Look, nobody's asking for a miniseries here, but at times the movie feels more like a History Channel documentary -- respectful to the point of reverential -- than a rip-snorting yarn.. I recommend this movie to everyone out ...

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Amazing Grace (2006) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

. Terrifying precisely because it doesn't go in for cheesy shock tactics and special effects.. As square as this movie is, it has been made with eloquence and jaunty high spirits, and it tells a good story that is virtually unknown here.. Based-on- a-true-story kitschfest.. A taut, riveting, uncommonly well-made film.. Director Michael Apted has turned out a movie that might be best described as faithful, both in its attention to accuracy and in its acknowledgement of the role faith played in ri...

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Die Reise des jungen Che - The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Beobachten Film

Whether you want to see The Motorcycle Diaries as entirely a personal story or as social and political allegory, it captures a far different and far more vulnerable Ernesto Guevara than the one we think we know.. If I was moved despite my ingrained skepticism about Che Guevara and Castro's Cuba, you probably will be too.. A marvelous road picture and boys-become-men adventure, full of the best kind of idealism.. About the personal transformations, the modes of empathy that precede ideology.. Cal...

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