Tangled is the best animated film from Disney in the past 15 years.. The heart of Disney animation lies in song and spectacle, and while none of the musical compositions here are quite at the level of "The Little Mermaid" or "Beauty and the Beast," t…
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Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014) Film-Streaming
Escobar: Paradise Lost, as promising as it often is, feels like two barely connected half-movies.. One hour of tedious expository flashback followed by one hour of solidly exciting present-tense thriller action.. Benicio del Toro is a looming, larger…
Eat, Pray, Love (2010) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Eat Pray Love is mostly a slog; never giving us a compelling reason why its heroine does what she does, or how she became quite so tiresomely self- absorbed.. the actual give-and-take between the characters is uncomfortably emotionally accurate, whic…
Like Crazy (2011) Beobachten Film
This indie drama starts off as a sexy little date movie, but once the lovers have been separated it grows steadily more complicated and mature.. It's imperative for director and co-writer Drake Doremus to color the film with a great deal of blossomin…
45 Years (2015) Download Film
The Princess and the Frog is so in synch with the early entries into Disney's so-called "second golden age" that one wonders how the company could have gotten away from these movies in the first place.. While dance purists won't be impressed by the e…
In Your Eyes (2014) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
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 convincing performances.. The best movie I've e…
Tatsächlich... Liebe (2003) Download Film
A highly engineered puffball.. It's too busy with too many stories to tell. But there's so much heart and silly fun and genuine sentiment here, delivered by an A-list of Brit and American talent that it's hard to fault.. This is cloying, deceitful, a…
King Kong (2005) Film Abspielen
It starts too slowly and suffers from weak dialogue and less-than-epic acting. But as popcorn movies go, this is the year's popcorniest.. The father-daughter subplot packs all the emotional heft of Madonna's Papa Don't Preach video.. Too big for its …
The Lucky One - Für immer der Deine (2012) Download Film
Logan's opening voice-over describes how fate can throw one's life off-course, but nothing about the film that follows strays from Sparks' well-established tear-jerking formula.... Efron acquits himself reasonably well. Is he sexy enough to make cred…
Brautalarm (2011) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. 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 …
Hitch - Der Date Doktor (2005) Download Film
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 masterpiece of genre film-making, really w…
Before Sunset (2004) Streaming-
How often does a visual medium make such an elegant argument about the beauty of language, even as it asserts its right to tell a story and move us with its vision?. It's a lovely, beguiling little film a rare treat during this overheated season of b…
Walk the Line (2005) Voll Streaming
If Walk the Line isn't the full story of Johnny Cash, it's at least a crucial corner of it, a way of coaxing a legend down to a human scale, without shrinking that legend away to nothingness.. Walk the Line leaves you feeling an unusual sensation, at…
Before We Go (2015) Film-Streaming
Slight and familiar but sweet enough for Saturday night, Before We Go is the umpteenth re-up of Brief Encounter, not that there's anything wrong with that.. A nice-looking package will only get you so far, and the insubstantiality of this actor-drive…
Die Gärtnerin von Versailles (2015) Beobachten Film
The story comes to life only fitfully, even with - or perhaps because of - its court intrigue and supporting characters both hissable (Helen McCrory as Andre's wife) and flamboyant (Stanley Tucci as the king's bisexual brother).. Mr. Rickman has foun…
Wenn ich bleibe (2014) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Maybe on the page this all seems less ridiculous.. What works for readers, left free to produce their own versions of fantasy devices, can be gigglesome for audiences confronted with a film's prefab literalism.. Almost everything in the film feels ei…
Unterwegs nach Cold Mountain (2003) Film-Streaming
Good, sometimes thrilling, but it's less a war epic than an evocative romantic melodrama with a patchy first hour.. This could have been a perfect choice for the Enchanted set, if only its charms were more than skin-deep.. While uneven, this Ugly Duc…
Suburban Gothic (2014) Film Abspielen
Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. 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 b…
Big Stone Gap (2015) Download Film
Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Absolutely o…
Kill Your Darlings - Junge Wilde (2013) Film Abspielen
A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.. 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.. It's tantalizing, dele…
Hautnah (2004) Streaming-
Closer has lots to offer: smart performances, archly funny dialogue and a feeling for the way a group of strangers can become so familiar that they're apt to rip one another to shreds.. Bad Pinter meets bad Updike, dancing to the rat-a-tat rhythms of…
Heartbreakers - Achtung: scharfe Kurven! (2001) Beobachten Film
Naughty is an outdated word in an era of proud nastiness, but Heartbreakers has a slinky, teasing quality that recalls the dressed-up comedies of the studio era.. . Unless you're a Hackman aficionado, there's no reason to bother with Heartbreakers.. …
Prince of Persia - Der Sand der Zeit (2010) Film Abspielen
There's simply not that much to see in the performances.. A bungled mass of relationship gab and frat-friendly gross-out gags, with the latter, and most of the laughs, front-loaded into the first few reels.. Although the film got stuck in editing lim…
Fifty Shades of Grey - Geheimes Verlangen (2015) Voll Streaming
Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. 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 convinc…
Mit dir an meiner Seite (2010) Download Voll
It's hard to believe this bland starlet is the same spunky kid who bounced through the Hannah Montana movie just last year, but it's only fair to cut Cyrus some slack.. The Original Nicholas Sparks Romance Factory accomplishes its goals. The New Mile…
Step Up to the Streets (2008) Streaming-
You're constantly aware of how oddly these people are behaving, and the artificiality spoils the illusion.. For an animated movie accompanied by its own line of Burger King toys and sugary breakfast cereal, Robots certainly provides a lot of Kafkaesq…
Aloha - Die Chance auf Glück (2015) Download Film
Filmmaker Cameron Crowe can't catch a break with Aloha, a Hawaii-set romcom that is a handful of stories struggling for a unifying tone, but is nowhere near as toxic as its advance buzz.. "Aloha" isn't horrible, but it does have a pitiable odor about…
Jane Eyre (2011) Download Film
Cary Fukunaga's feverishly soulful remake of the multiply remade Jane Eyre rises to most challenges -- not the least of which is making Mia Wasikowska, a golden child of current cinema, look homely.. While qualifying as the most gorgeously appointed …
Remember Me - Lebe den Augenblick (2010) Film-Streaming
Overwritten and overcooked, Remember Me still manages a few explosive sequences between Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan.. There are some pretty funny things in there.. A Good Year is like a promising wine that's a bit new to the bottle. It goes down rou…
The Best Offer - Das höchste Gebot (2013) Voll Streaming
A richer experience than the original.. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are a rare case of two movies that rightfully demand yet another sequel.. For all its modesty, lingers in the mind like an unresolved relationship or a life-altering, if random,…
Manolo und das Buch des Lebens (2014) Online-Streaming-
Too often, the film gets distracted with things to giggle at, and breaks the spell.. Even with a third eye on your forehead and peyote in your bloodstream, you won't be able to follow this long and winding road any better than Doc does.. Despite the …
17 Again - Back to High School (2009) Streaming-
Tangled braids strands of traditional storytelling and a contemporary sensibility with stylish if predictable results.. The filmmakers don't give their viewers credit for a minimum level of observation and, as a result, have produced a sloppy, lazy m…
Die Schadenfreundinnen (2014) Streaming-
You want these people to have real challenges and messiness. But their lives don't quite feel lived in; they feel exemplary.. This is more "feminish" than feminist, but arguably a tottering stiletto-heeled step forward.. Maybe on the page this all se…
Match Point (2005) Download Film
It's too bad the movie chose to go so gentle into that good night.. When in Rome may fall flat in places, but at least it hasn't had all the personality manicured out of it.. ... a nifty little crowd pleaser .... Bell and Duhamel may have something a…
Wild Child - Erstklassig Zickig (2008) Beobachten Film
This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protect…
The Spectacular Now (2013) Beobachten Film
Teller and Woodley hum together, and the movie does their performances justice.. This adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel, directed with delicate restraint by James Ponsoldt, sneaks up on you. It makes you laugh, then it breaks your heart.. Fairly close …
Beim ersten Mal (2007) Download Film
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.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since …
Der Ja-Sager (2008) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
If you're thinking 'yuck,' you're right.. The first time I saw Yes Man, I thought the concept was getting kind of stale toward the end. As it turns out, that was only the trailer.. Despite some brief vulgarity, this Carrey comedy has charm and -- sur…
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Online-Streaming-
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.. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a comedy, a g…
Focus (2015) Streaming-
This is the kind of movie where we're not supposed to know at any time who is playing whom, but since the characterizations are glossy and paper-thin, it's difficult to get worked up about who gets fleeced.. You come out feeling you've been had by we…
Meine Frau, ihre Schwiegereltern und ich (2004) Beobachten Film
Often-uproarious.. . A vulgar farce that isn't remotely amusing.. A resolutely average sequel, several subbasements below the first film in both comic inspiration and energy.. Meet the Fockers takes time to generate comic momentum, but the irresistib…
Stolz und Vorurteil (2005) Download Voll
Pride & Prejudice satisfies as dreamy romance. It's not the razor-sharp satire that Austen can be, but it's lovely entertainment.. For the uninitiated, I can't imagine a better introduction to this classic.. Wright wastes no time in squeezing the plo…
Untreu (2002) Voll Streaming
What's curious about Unfaithful is just how little it pops.. At what point in the movie is it too late to ask for your money back?. French actor Martinez gives Paul the kind of carefree arrogance Gere had in similar roles 20 years ago. He and Lane si…
Love Stories - Erste Lieben, zweite Chancen (2012) Download Film
Cliched literary trappings come together in "Stuck in Love," but the final product feels more like a footnote than a finished work.. A passionate, warts-and-all chronicle of an extraordinary American artist, not to mention a love story that can't be …
Pitch Perfect (2012) Beobachten Film
Cannon doesn't go in for rococo hipster badinage in the vein of Diablo Cody. She can pare down a joke to its essence .... What helps offset the predictable in this very predictable movie is a series of show-stopping numbers, so props to the folks who…
The Fountain (2006) Film-Streaming
There is a measure of soft-core titillation in this, for sure, but Ms. Leigh observes Lucy's body and what happens to it with a dreamy detachment that is seductive and unnerving in equal measure.. Mr. Aronofsky's outlook on life remains too constantl…
Die nackte Wahrheit (2009) Download Film
This is a sensuously assembled, almost tactile film that earns its redemption and sears itself in memory.. Aside from being relational science-fiction, The Ugly Truth feels about 150 years out of date -- or it would, if the script weren't so clinical…
Before Midnight (2013) Download Voll
Lovely. Insightful. Sad. Funny.. Hawke and Delpy, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater, have the sort of rapport that makes you believe they've loved each other for years. This makes it all the more painful when they start to drift apart.. How …
Für immer Liebe (2012) Voll Streaming
At the risk of sounding as manic as Corny Collins, Baltimore's answer to Dick Clark, this latest screen incarnation is guaranteed to flip your wig.. Though Haggis has crafted an ambitious tale, it is way too complicated and convoluted.. Even if the s…
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) Online-Streaming-
While this modest film certainly isn't the equal of Monsoon Wedding in humor, insight or character development, it is fun.. Second City alum Nia Vardalos stars in this ethnic comedy, which she also wrote -- an ambitious way to break into a leading ro…
Step Up All In (2014) Download Voll
Eager young dance fans will sit through stale storylines as long as the movie can supply fresh moves, and in that department, Sie and her team of three choreographers have it covered.. Even by the standards of this franchise-and this genre in general…
Adventureland (2009) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
If you're thinking 'yuck,' you're right.. The movie does a very good job of capturing the teens and their times. Everything feels right, from the ups-and-downs of late '80s rock, to the way kids really behaved.. The first time I saw Yes Man, I though…
Lucía und der Sex (2001) Film Abspielen
It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious.. Perhaps our confusion is part of the whole idea, but Sex and Lucia would have a lot more impact if there were someone to give a damn about.. I would be shocked if there was actuall…
Mr. Nobody (2009) Film-Streaming
This ultra-hyped adaptation of the ultra-successful Helen Fielding novel sends you out with a smile on your face.. How can you celebrate a movie in which Zellweger doesn't soar but simply avoids disaster?. The movie is often clunkily paced and edited…
Cinderella Story (2004) Download Film
Give this wannabe Cinderella a big Bibbitti Bobbitti Boo.. 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.. You can say of…
Der Teufel trägt Prada (2006) Streaming-
Gordon-Levitt enlivens Don Jon with such a sense of swagger, as a director, writer and actor, that the film feels fresh.. As a director, Gordon-Levitt demonstrates considerable technical flair through stylistic flourishes and coaxes great performance…
Fremd Fischen (2011) Streaming-
Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. 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 job…
Ein gutes Jahr (2006) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
. A pleasant jaunt through one of the most beautiful places on the planet -- encased in a story that ends up making you feel that all is right with the world.. . The new film is an excellent choice for American parents who want their children to grow…
Der Sternwanderer (2007) Streaming-
No, Stardust isn't a children's movie. It's a movie for anyone, of any age, who believes in magic -- or wishes they did.. . Unfortunately, putting witches in a script does not guarantee magic. Stardust simply has no sparkle.. Though the special effec…
Die Träumer (2003) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. Adam Sandler plays a Beverly Hills plastic surgeo…
Sleeping Beauty (2011) Film Abspielen
There is a measure of soft-core titillation in this, for sure, but Ms. Leigh observes Lucy's body and what happens to it with a dreamy detachment that is seductive and unnerving in equal measure.. Sleeping Beauty is one of those self-consciously arts…
Das Phantom der Oper (2004) Beobachten Film
This Pride & Prejudice isn't minutely faithful to the book -- and for good reason -- but it is authentic where it counts: to the confused, wounded, eager hearts of its lovers.. It's a shamelessly over-the-top wallow in romantic obsession, and a thoro…
Zeiten des Aufruhrs (2008) Film Abspielen
Unlike the novel, which you can set aside and take a break, with the film version of Revolutionary Road, you're in for the duration, and it's ultimately too much to take.. Sam Mendes has worked in this territory before with his Oscar-winning American…
Alexander (2004) Film-Streaming
It's boring here and exciting there. And it's almost always goofy.. Mr. Depp's wizardly expertise at disappearing into a character is intact. But what if that character isn't funny and hasn't an ounce of charm?. Daffy, dated, and precisely as intende…
Das wandelnde Schloss (2004) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Sadly, an obsession with raunchy one-liners trips everything up, turning a clever conceit into something closer to a sleazy, cheesy affair.. The picture is no great shakes as cinema, and a shade too cute for its own good. Still, it's a mild shock to …
The First Time (2012) Online-Streaming-
It feels real, its emotions earned. It shies away from the Big Dramatic Moment for the most part, instead doling out little victories and small defeats, which is similar to the way most of us experienced our teen years.. This movie paints itself into…
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Online-Streaming-
It's all compelling, real and fresh.. A multi-threaded and well-organized comedy full of pleasant surprises and appealing characters.. It's romantic, touching, a little risque and screwball, yet reassuringly down-to-earth.. Knightley is the best thin…
Brick (2005) Streaming-
[Hunt] elevates what might have been a cute, familiarly plotted movie into a romance with real heart, sweetness and genuine emotion.. It's short on clever humor and big on convention and formula.. This bad-mannered love story has a funny foul mouth w…
So spielt das Leben (2010) Film Abspielen
Katherine Heigl carries 27 Dresses when all else fails, which it does with great regularity.. Talk about setting the woman's movement back by about a half-century.. Get Smart could have been smarter. But like the show that inspired it, it's still sma…
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Online-Streaming-
Hayward and Gilman are newcomers who are asked to carry much of the film and pull it off with lovely understatement and extraordinary believability.. Last time out, in Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson adapted a children's book by Roald Dahl. Now, in M…
Frida (2002) Beobachten Film
It's a bit too Wonder Years at times, but the odd two-narrators gimmick plays right into the film's "flip" in structure.. . Based on a popular young-adult novel and brimming with all the angst and schmaltz you'd expect from such a source, this awkwar…
Die drei Musketiere (2011) Streaming-
A very 2011 take on Alexandre Dumas' classic that feels weirdly dated already.. . The very existence of this film illustrates barrel-scraping desperation of the Hollywood kind.. For the latest update of Alexandre Dumas's novel, Paul W.S. Anderson has…
Freunde mit gewissen Vorzügen (2011) Film Abspielen
A witty rom-com for the smart-phone generation.. The best romantic comedy of the year.. A mindless but watchable fondue pot of high-calorie visuals and ready-made plotting .... The chemistry between Kunis and her co-star Justin Timberlake is electric…
Wie ein einziger Tag (2004) Download Film
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 convincing performances.. The excellent perform…
Journey of Love - Das wahre Abenteuer ist die Liebe (2012) Film-Streaming
"Safety" can't sustain its own offbeat energy. By the end, even Aubrey Plaza would roll her eyes at it.. Safety Not Guaranteed rewards those willing to ditch cynicism for a playful world where anything is possible.. "Safety Not Guaranteed" is most vi…
Intimacy (2001) Beobachten Film
Co-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, who directed the gritty indie dramas Half Nelson and Sugar, go all gooey and sentimental here.. As a witness to several Greek-American weddings -- but, happily, a victim of none -- I can testify to the comparat…
The New World (2005) Film Abspielen
Watching The New World is like watching a snail cross an eight-lane highway.. American Wedding has the decided taste of day-old bakery -- although, of course, that could just be some errant body fluid.. Like the best music, this film elicits emotions…
SuperBob (2015) Film Abspielen
The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. 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 thei…
Party Animals - ... wilder geht's nicht! (2002) Download Voll
It doesn't quite work, but it fails with warmth.. A pretty soap bubble of a movie. It's lovely to look at and calming to watch, but don't try to touch it - it just might pop and vanish, right there in your hand.. It's a tasteless, tacky movie full of…
Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 (2015) Film Abspielen
Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography,…
Big Eyes (2014) Download Film
Captures with such immediacy the elation and anxiety of new love, the tingle and the terror, the profound sense that you have never been more alive and the occasional wish that you could die on the spot.. For all its tonal shifts and erratic pacing, …
The Illusionist - Nichts ist wie es scheint (2006) Download Film
This is the kind of thoughtful, poetic, lush and old-fashioned (in the best sense of the word) film that rarely gets made anymore -- one that immerses us in a bygone world for a couple of hours.. The Illusionist is a rich and elegant film, full of sl…
Don Jon (2013) Online-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.. Scott Pilgrim vs. th…
Saints - Sie kannten kein Gesetz (2013) Film Abspielen
. How bad can a movie be, with Goldilocks Hudson and Cinderella Hathaway? So excruciating that Hudson's sunshine can't warm it and Hathaway's rose redolence can't mask its stink.. A muted but always engrossing tale of young, doomed love.. No cues are…
Meine erfundene Frau (2011) Beobachten Film
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!!. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston's romantic comedy, idiotic even by th…
Pearl Harbor (2001) Beobachten Film
The best way to see the movie is as I did: expecting nothing and being pleasantly surprised, and strangely moved, by Mr. Bay's audacity in filming his lovers in end-of-the-world close-ups, however briefly.. The centerpiece is the attack. For 50 minut…
Juno (2007) Online-Streaming-
Epic in scale but not epic in spirit, a wallow in carnage that fails to demonstrate what was so great about this conqueror, after all.. Juno isn't a film made in the bell jar of unlikely reality that is, far too often, Hollywood: It's a film whose at…
Carol (2015) Streaming-
The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the pla…
Selbst ist die Braut (2009) Streaming-
Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Instead of being about dinosaurs and time warps, it's about gags that were old when dinosaurs ruled the earth.. A masterpiece of ge…
Blue Jasmine (2013) Film-Streaming
Obviously intended as a romantic throwback to the good old days of Hollywood, The Holiday instead comes off as a self-indulgent, insipid piece of seasonal trash.. It holds its own thanks to Blanchett's stunning take on Jasmine, whose incandescent and…
Die Schwester der Königin (2008) Film Abspielen
Wow! Hot dueling sisters. Beheadings. Untold wealth and power. Lush costumes. Decisions that change the course of history. And, again -- hot dueling sisters! So how come The Other Boleyn Girl is such a snooze?. Why in the name of ermine boleros would…
Teuflisch (2000) Beobachten Film
Delivers laughs at a rather more than intermittent rate, and Elizabeth Hurley is a fun devil.. Valentine's Day is a passing nod to love, like a box of chocolates or flowers that soon wilt. It's star-studded amiable fluff with no real value, but it's …
The Lovers (2015) Film Abspielen
The actors give their all, and Esmail's got an interesting directorial approach. But his own misguided script continually pulls this starry-eyed project down.. These occasionally obnoxious, certainly neurotic young lovers have beating, sometimes brok…
Green Lantern (2011) Download Film
It's almost as if no one cared to try hard enough to tell a coherent and engaging story.. Apart from having no particular reason to exist onscreen, especially at these prices, it's not half bad.. The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and whil…
The Village - Das Dorf (2004) Voll Streaming
Far more interesting as a trip than a destination.. There is no doubt that Shyamalan is a gifted director who knows how to push audience buttons, but heavy-handed horror shows like this one make the man behind the camera seems less an artist than a h…
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) Film-Streaming
I think this movie needs to be skipped.. . Some of it is funny. Much of it isn't. The committee-written plot seems tired and recycled.. There are flat performances in the film, false situations and bad lines, but the laughs are there and the message …
Grow Up!? - Erwachsen werd' ich später (2014) Beobachten Film
Pretty hard to resist as a guilty pleasure.. How much you get out of this American indie romcom will depend on where you stand on Keira Knightley doing her goofy, 'What me?' normal girl routine.. . This is the first feature that the talented Lynn She…
Life After Beth (2014) Online-Streaming-
Among many missteps is a total tonal identity crisis. Plaza has described Beth as a "zom-com-rom-dram." (N.B. This remark is more clever than anything in the movie it describes.). "Life After Beth" may have revived the ultimate girlfriend from hell, …
Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter (2014) Download Film
A failure that should have at least been a magnificent mistake.. While it may not conform to one's real-life expectations it certainly hews tightly to teen-flick conventions.. Woodley ... balances grace with gravity, wit with heart.. It is, as I susp…
Duell - Enemy at the Gates (2001) Download Film
Set-pieces get you so far (and Annaud delights in blowing this set to pieces), but the script's shortcomings aren't camouflaged by the decision to adopt Home Counties' accents as the film's lingua franca.. Any flaws in execution pale against those mo…
Two Night Stand (2014) Online-Streaming-
For my money a much better heartbreaker, thrillmaker and tear-tweaker than Titanic.. The effect of watching a Michael Bay film is indistinguishable from having a large, pointy lump of rock drop on your head. His new picture, Pearl Harbor, maintains t…
American Pie - Jetzt wird geheiratet (2003) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
If there was ever a case of Hollywood's over-stroking a formula to squeeze every last drop out of it, American Wedding is it.. Still has all the crude, rude fun of its predecessors.. At this wedding, you can have your cake and barf it, too.. An aimle…
Inherent Vice - Natürliche Mängel (2014) Film Abspielen
Despite the film's frustrations, it must be acknowledged that Anderson -- a master of the multi-strand, multi-character, multi-meaning plot -- is the perfect director to adapt Pynchon, in terms of both craft and spirit.. More than just an adaptation …
Romeo und Julia (2013) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
A richer experience than the original.. Juliet should be a girl, but the story's trajectory of self-sacrifice requires her to become a woman. Steinfeld gets the girl part exactly right, but she botches the transformation.. [Director Carlo] Carlei's f…
Der Vorleser (2008) Film-Streaming
The Reader is a bold and provocative film and one of the most exquisite of 2008.. Told, coolly...the novel was hugely popular as well as controversial worldwide and an Oprah's Book Club selection besides. I'm afraid it needed a different set of inter…
Der große Gatsby (2013) Streaming-
Baz Luhrmann's razzmatazz and bombast -- in 3D! -- overwhelm the subtle poetry of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel.. Fitzgerald's sensibility is delicately nuanced, but there's steel in his melancholy. With Luhrmann, everything, not just the parties but t…
Comet (2014) Beobachten Film
Esmail frames his lovers against landscapes that are richly textured and swooningly romantic, but they prove unworthy of the fuss.. Although there's talent on display in all aspects of this time-jumping, visually distinctive independent... Esmail str…
Spritztour (2008) Film-Streaming
Dear John succeeds where Sparks duds like Rodanthe crumbled because it harnesses fresher talents to pull off a comforting tale about the enduring power of love.. Above all, Marsden and Green are a genuine delight.. C'mon, it's the millennium, it's th…
Nina Forever (2015) Beobachten Film
Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since…
Love Vegas (2008) Film Abspielen
By being a smidge smarter than the average date movie, it makes the first-time meeting, the battle of the sexes and the bumpy course of true love entertaining despite overfamiliarity.. While Baena tries to offer a reworking of zombie mythology - easy…
Midnight in Paris (2011) Online-Streaming-
There is breezy comedy to be made of a YouTube-age writer meeting the icons and idols of a bygone, classical era, but Allen goes deeper, expanding on his time-travel device to make unexpected and unexpectedly generous observations.. Unfortunately, it…
P.S. Ich liebe Dich (2007) Beobachten Film
Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. Thi…
Eine für vier (2005) Download Film
The relationships and performances are strong and moving, with an effect both breezy-fun and profound.. It's heartening to see a movie about teenage girls that is concerned with serious questions and avoids the pettiness that filmmakers tend to ascri…
Am grünen Rand der Welt (2015) Voll Streaming
The madding now comes so close on the heels of the gladding and the sadding, that it isn't until the very end, that you realize you've been artfully shepherded - stampeded, really - right off an emotional cliff.. A form of emotional hardcore.. If lis…
Verliebt und ausgeflippt (2010) Beobachten Film
Flipped is sweet and something like honest, heartfelt and phonily sincere, and it will be, at risk of coarse honesty, catnip for old people.. It's a pretty picture or would be if the ominous music and camera position didn't seem directed at the man p…
Schwer verliebt (2001) Streaming-
An ill-conceived, slovenly executed and disingenuous comedy.. The entire film unfolds in a recognizable register of ominous hesitation; the results are a bit schematic but nevertheless hit on something real.. "Drinking Buddies" has a cleaner structur…
Ashby (2015) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
A fifty car pileup of cliches.. A winning film about reconciling one's self-image with reality.. While Tatum has rough charm, Dewan is more dancer than actress.. Any guy who sits through this date movie deserves to get to third base at least.. A lot …
Honeymoon (2014) Film-Streaming
The Family Stone is a satisfying, big-hearted celebration of diversity that will brighten holiday moviegoing - - at least in the blue states.. Achieves emotional resonance due to how effectively it joins its source of horror with the stuff of everyda…
The Artist (2011) Film-Streaming
"The Artist'' is a small, exquisitely-cut jewel in a style everyone assumes is 80 years out of date.. A silent movie shot in sumptuous black-and-white, no less. A silent flick made with not a jot of distancing winking, but instead born of a heady aff…
Mamma Mia! (2008) Beobachten Film
A lot of fun.. Cheese -- but what wonderfully salty, sinfully satisfying cheese it is.. Feels like a souvenir program: something to revive the feelings you had watching the stage performance.. This isn't a movie. It's a vacation.. It's a one-of-a-kin…
Chroniken der Unterwelt - City of Bones (2013) Film-Streaming
A ludicrous, borderline-nonsensical supernatural concoction with a slightly redeeming sense of its own silliness.. Everything chugs along briskly and reasonably entertainingly until running off the rails a bit with a wildly overcomplicated finale.. T…
Secretary (2002) Online-Streaming-
. This version of the Musketeers story can't decide if it wants to be an old-fashioned tale of swashbuckling adventure and palace intrigue or a cheeky, effects-heavy rethink of some iconic characters a la the Guy Ritchie-directed Sherlock Holmes.. Se…
27 Dresses - Kleider machen Bräute (2008) Film-Streaming
Certainly Heigl fares better in less formulaic fare, such as Judd Apatow's irreverent Knocked Up, but she does raise the level of this chick flick from bland to mildly entertaining.. Anyone who has the slightest doubt about where this movie is headin…
Die Trauzeugen AG (2015) Voll Streaming
Lee has taken a story of gay love and placed it where it should be -- in the mainstream. He's delivered a beautifully crafted film to boot.. Like all great love stories, Ang Lee's is one of tragic romance, strongly acted by Heath Ledger as the most b…
Abbitte (2007) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
As Disney animated features go, Tangled is middling. If you can't figure out what happens, you've never seen a movie. And if you haven't, please, God, don't start with this one.. These are timeless themes -- domineering parent, sheltered child, dange…
New Moon - Bis(s) zur Mittagsstunde (2009) Film-Streaming
It's not much fun watching an Australian director whose small goal in life is to ape French provocateur Catherine Breillat. There's not much thrill in watching Ms. Browning, who is so anesthetized she seems to be dreaming whether she's asleep or awak…
Verlobung auf Umwegen (2010) Streaming-
Is this 2010, or 1950? It certainly seems the latter, since no contemporary woman with an IQ above Guinness temperature would sit with such nonsense.. There's not one surprising moment in the script, but Adams and Goode allow you to look past the fam…
Nie wieder Sex mit der Ex (2008) Beobachten Film
Forgetting Sarah Marshall follows the Apatow formula faithfully enough. All that's missing is charisma -- the je ne sais quois that makes us fall in love in the first place.. We know actors are trained to let it all hang out, but Jason Segel takes na…
Klick (2006) Film Abspielen
A few truly profound statements emerge from the swirling hormones.. The jokes don't come frequently enough in Click, and aren't all that funny.. Cleverly conceived but conspicuously unfunny.. What makes He's Just Not That Into You work are the things…
Cinderella (2015) Download Film
"Cinderella" is so scrubbed of personality, it's not even worth calling a mess.. Cinderella is a wonderfully realized family feature that retains the strengths of its source material while at the same time updating it for today's audiences.. Some of …
Les Misérables (2012) Download Voll
Fans of the original production, no doubt, will eat the movie up, and good luck to them. I screamed a scream as time went by.. Not dissimilar in merrily ghoulish spirit to 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', it's hugely entertaining.. If you like your …
Verwünscht (2007) Film Abspielen
Enchanted isn't just a culture-clash fable, it's also a throwback to one of classic Hollywood's giddiest genres: the screwball comedy.. Happily, the leads carry the day: James Marsden as a prince of grinning vanity, Susan Sarandon as the wicked stepm…
House Bunny (2008) Beobachten Film
The script is witty and playful, the casting just right.. There's something about Hall Pass that feels grosser than the usual Farrelly brothers comedy.. It wastes a lot of energy to very little effect.. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a comedy, a good on…
Drinking Buddies (2013) Voll Streaming
Not much happens in Drinking Buddies, which, frankly, is refreshing.. This is a special movie.. [Swanberg] points the movie in directions that defy our expectations, exploring the characters' immaturity and the entropy of human interaction.. We laugh…
The Escort (2015) Film Abspielen
A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. 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 myself away from the screen for hours. R…
Just Friends - No Sex (2005) Beobachten Film
A film pragmatic enough to concede that almost every relationship is doomed, but romantic enough to realize that it's worth it to carry on in spite of that fact, High Fidelity is one of the smartest and funniest romantic comedies of the past few year…
Für immer Single? (2014) Film-Streaming
The performers are as beautiful to look at here as they are intriguing to watch.. It's reassuring, really, to be reminded that top-tier Hollywood stars can make lousy choices just like the rest of us.. Beating a dead horse barely begins to describe t…
Urlaubsreif (2014) Film Abspielen
What's missing from Blended? Two key ingredients: it doesn't touch the heart and it doesn't tickle the funny bone (at least not often enough).. The sunnier that Barrymore gets in her scenes with Sandler, the more the iffy elements and leaden bits see…
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Online-Streaming-
Swinton, her hair white and long and her eyes tired and kind, and Hiddleston, moody and resigned, are wonderful - delivering their lines with the dry sighs of a desert breeze.. This is a film that finds horror not in the extreme, but in the mundane. …
Was Frauen wollen (2000) Download Film
This bad-mannered love story has a funny foul mouth with a few bright spots of charm.. The leads are better than the movie deserves. Baruchel is likable, and Eve comes off as somewhat more human than you expect in efforts like this.. Scenes that shou…
Liebe braucht keine Ferien (2006) Online-Streaming-
...The surprises would be surprises only if this is, like, your fourth movie ever.. There's nothing authentic or personal about The Holiday -- it's as chilling as heart-warmers get.. "All In" is a lesser effort in this franchise, but not without its …
Freundschaft Plus (2011) Voll Streaming
The movie quickly sinks into a terminal case of the cutes and extreme predictability - amid the usual surfeit of wacky supporting characters.. At least Portman is playing someone who is recognizably human, unlike her dancer in Black Swan.. Much of El…
Das Märchen der Märchen (2015) Download Film
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 the…
Sex Ed (2014) Beobachten Film
A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. 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 t…
Es ist kompliziert..! (2015) Online-Streaming-
The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action 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 i…
Zu scharf, um wahr zu sein (2010) Streaming-
It's got a stale premise, dumb jokes, [and] characters who exist only to remind you of other characters in slightly better movies.. Nothing would work, though, without the appealing Baruchel.. The leads are better than the movie deserves. Baruchel is…
Die Geisha (2005) Voll Streaming
. The performances are good, the visuals are lush, the span is epic, but the film simply never soars.. This is a lavishly detailed memoir in which little turns out to be that memorable.. ... good-looking but not quite memorable .... Memoirs of a Geis…
Dido Elizabeth Belle (2014) Download Film
The kind of movie that reminds you why you love movies so much, a film so filled with unexpected energy and ambition and sly intelligence it gives you hope for the future.. Its best performers find their truths and telling details in between the stra…
When in Rome – Fünf Männer sind vier zu viel (2010) Film Abspielen
Bell and Duhamel may have something as a romantic onscreen pair but there's no telling. What's going on around them is both distracting and annoying, thanks to the hyperactivity of the oddball suitors who tend to suck all of the chemistry out of the …
Step Up - Miami Heat (2012) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Randy Newman's songs are a little too blandly Randy Newman-ish and the story is uneven, but there are some great characters, some even better jokes, a general sense of good humour and that entrancing, eye-ravishing old-school animation.. There's too …
Spanglish (2004) Online-Streaming-
So rancid is Brooks's fury that it's clouded his judgment, so that each of his main characters is a stereotype of the most broad-brush, malodorous nature.. There are signs that a lot has been cut, and in trimming his film Brooks may have squeezed too…
Das gibt Ärger (2012) Beobachten Film
Proves to be little more than the canned Spam of the movie world - bland, over-processed and cheap, even when it's spending millions engulfing highways in balls of ludicrous flame.. The director is McG, who allows no motion to pass without a musical …
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) Online-Streaming-
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.. Feels like a souvenir program: something…
How to Make Love Like an Englishman (2015) Streaming-
Spirited but uneven.. The sentimental side of the back half of the film doesn't fit with the bedroom farce sensibilities going before.. Essentially, it's a screenful of pseudo-medieval popcorn that hits a high enough level of goofy fun to transcend a…
Tiger & Dragon (2000) Download Film
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 the…
Ich.Darf.Nicht.Schlafen. (2014) Download Voll
With luck, Kidman will erase this inept thriller from her memory as quickly as it leaves theaters.. Cliched literary trappings come together in "Stuck in Love," but the final product feels more like a footnote than a finished work.. At the moment "Be…
Bridget Jones - Schokolade zum Frühstück (2001) Beobachten Film
Yes, the movie adaptation is just fine, thank you.. It's so aggressive you don't even have to like it; the movie likes itself well enough for the both of you.. Let me say in Bridget Jonesy fashion that Zellweger is an irresistible sex goddess, hurrah…
By the Sea (2015) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. The film…
Scott Pilgrim gegen den Rest der Welt (2010) Download Voll
It's a razzle-dazzle compendium of quick-draw humor, superhero stunts and gamer references wrapped around a teen dream love story, starring -- who else? -- Michael Cera, the first genuine nerd superstar.. The film fuses an indie/punk rock sensibility…
Liebe mich (2005) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
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 the…
Umständlich Verliebt (2010) Film-Streaming
. It's heartening to see a movie about teenage girls that is concerned with serious questions and avoids the pettiness that filmmakers tend to ascribe to young women of that age.. They're saying Rent was of its moment. They're saying that moment has …
Love, Rosie - Für immer vielleicht (2014) Beobachten Film
Its view of women as objectified but unavailable sex toys is so retrograde it would be maddening if the movie weren't such an utter piece of fluff so conceptually barren it might as well be a music video.. Constant fuchsia lighting can't make this se…
Auf der Suche nach einem Freund fürs Ende der Welt (2012) Voll Streaming
This is a romantic comedy for people who don't like rom-coms. There's no chance of a happy ending, but its tender mercies speak volumes.. It seems downright unfair that billions of people have to die so that a middle-aged sad sack can cop a cuddle wi…
Beastly - Schau in sein wahres Gesicht (2011) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Time may bring good things to light, but the 2010 copyright suggests that delays have worked no such wonders for this film.. Beneath it all, however, is a movie with a good heart.. Like Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens is blessed with amazing looks to go al…
Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button (2008) Film Abspielen
Granted it would be nice to have a ladies' night out at the multiplex, but no one need be this desperate.. Fincher's magic can't transform him from the coldly dispassionate misanthropist of Se7en, Fight Club, and Zodiac into a sentimental humanist, a…
Die Frau des Zeitreisenden (2009) Voll Streaming
It's about something important, the search for meaning and happiness, about finding one's inner life amid the clutter and confusion of modern existence.. Lovely. Insightful. Sad. Funny.. It's hard to live in stolen moments, but trying to find a few e…
Eclipse - Bis(s) zum Abendrot (2010) Streaming-
I can't pretend that the third episode instilled a fever in my blood, but it didn't leave me cold. For the first time in the series I felt I'd seen a real movie.. Viewers who value the little things, such as passable acting and dialogue not stolen fr…
Chocolat... ein kleiner Biss genügt (2000) Film-Streaming
A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.. It's all a bit prefab, but the idea of equating the forces of chocolate and sensual indulgence with the forces of goodness is pretty surefire.. . . One of those whimsical concoctions that tries too hard, and goes too l…
Maleficent - Die dunkle Fee (2014) Download Film
Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. While this is Jolie's show, obviously - and she's terrifically arch - the surprising dearth of other compelling characters doesn't …
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) Beobachten Film
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 the…
Die Familie Stone - Verloben verboten! (2005) Voll Streaming
A feel-bad holiday film about a repellent family, with a milquetoast dad and a smug, devious harpy of a mom.. There are cringe-worthy passages and an overly sentimental structure (everyone pairs up so very tidily), but the performances are delightful…
Love (2015) Online-Streaming-
What little story there is Noe has chopped into small bits and spread out sparingly, like a chef squeezing a feast from a meager pantry.. A courageously personal account of an aspiring filmmaker torn between the mother of his child and the one that g…
Blue Valentine (2010) Voll Streaming
I realize that gaudy fantasy is essential to this franchise, but why does the fantasy have to be so stunted?. Bright-eyed youth and bedraggled adulthood alternate in a sad spectacle beautifully and sensitively portrayed.. The ugly smell of unexamined…
Sex and the City 2 (2010) Download Voll
. Like a plastic surgeon, storyteller King keeps trying to find new ways to lift and tighten his characters, but they have become garish caricatures of themselves.. Though the 2 in the title implies a double shot of everything fans loved about the se…
Step Up (2006) Download Film
An adolescent romance we've seen a million times before.. It's almost as wrong-headed as it is pre-fabricated.. A story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously. It is also beautifully acted.. Plays…
Transcendence (2014) Streaming-
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 convincing performances.. Music perfectly fits …
Kein Ort ohne Dich (2015) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Though Tillman doesn't quite elevate the maudlin material into serious drama, the result is uncommonly sensitive.. Conforms to a timeworn, and shopworn, Sparks formula of troubled protagonists receiving wisdom, or inspiration, or both, from unexpecte…
Top Five (2014) Voll Streaming
While it elicits a few laughs, Sex Drive has little to ignite either the comic road-trip genre or the teen-sex romp.. Little has changed since the heyday of John Hughes: nerdy hero on a mission to get laid, red sports car, bespectacled BFF- check, ch…
Peter Pan (2003) Film Abspielen
There just isn't enough in the movie, despite its marvelous design, to warrant another visit to this material.. A tribute to the power of good storytelling.. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers …
Forbidden Kingdom (2008) Film Abspielen
Unfortunately, the plot becomes such a puzzle that the central characters lose their urgency and the movie overstays its welcome.. It's even hard to simply enjoy the performances of the two stars, who give more that the film deserves.. Between bedroo…
Nach 7 Tagen Ausgeflittert (2007) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
In some ways, the Farrelly brothers' remake of The Heartbreak Kid is better than Elaine May's 1972 comedy. In other ways, not so much.. While the film needs the put-upon Ben Stiller of Flirting With Disaster or There's Something About Mary, it instea…
30 über Nacht (2004) Streaming-
It's nice to know that, Hanks or Garner, male or female, Big is still an idea that works, 16 years after it opened.. With its set 'em up, knock 'em down series of cliches, The Ugly Truth marks off the romantic comedy checklist.. Often 13 Going on 30'…
Breaking Dawn - Bis(s) zum Ende der Nacht - Teil 1 (2011) Film-Streaming
For its delicate tone, provocative themes, impeccable craftsmanship and superb performances -- by Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley -- Never Let Me Go earned my great admiration.. Never Let Me Go is sci-fi for the Belle & Sebastian …
Alles eine Frage der Zeit (2013) Voll Streaming
A Grimm brothers fairy tale taken to the Outer Limits.. Far more interesting as a trip than a destination.. Shyamalan, far from being a master of suspense, hasn't yet figured out that the shadowy things you glimpse out of the corner of your eye are a…
Winter's Tale (2014) Film-Streaming
This live-action fairy tale aims to recapture the romantic splendor MGM's golden era; the dialogue and metaphysical conceits are often risible, but even they convey an emotionalism rare in 21st-century Hollywood.. Never Let Me Go is strangely moving …
Dating Queen (2015) Download Voll
It's a familiar rom-com dynamic, but the reversal of traditional on-screen gender roles-combined with Schumer and Hader's easy chemistry-makes "Trainwreck" feel new and fresh.. In the way of most Apatow films, Trainwreck is a little too long, a littl…