Annie (2014) Se Streaming

Banal, shallow and markedly cynical.. Most remakes are unnecessary but Annie is a bigger offender than many.. A movie that coasts on a disturbing greed-is-good vibe. And one that looks strangely cheap doing it.. Engaging characters, infectious melodies, suspense, drama and dance extravaganzas appeal to children of all eras. If only the powers that be behind the new Annie movie had kept this basic truth in mind.. Despite any reservations about the music, it is a charming, lovely little movie.. By...

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Kingdom of Heaven (2005) Download Film

The religious sentiment accumulates into a tower of politically correct Jell-O.. The latest and loveliest alternative universe created by Charlie Kaufman, America's most -- we should probably say only -- intellectually provocative screenwriter.. If the picture isn't as engaging as it should have been, Scott's images still make it entrancing.. It doesn't have a genuine moment. But even period authenticity would not compensate for cardboard characters and a contrived narrative.. Works marvel after...

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Magic Mike XXL (2015) Se Streaming

The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. The movie is capably directed by Gregory Jacobs, Soderbergh's longtime producer and assistant director, who lovingly captures sweaty bodies and glistening beaches and retains the original's loose, relaxed style.. This is the single best movie I have ever seen.Thanks for your movie info.. Too many elements that made the first film a...

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Dark Places (2015) Fuld Film Streaming

The mystery itself eventually becomes tiresome and shrug-worthy, even as the film breathlessly racks up the revelations.. Paquet-Brenner wrings the suspense out of "Dark Places" almost from the get-go, with a plodding pace and characters who are meant to be powerfully repressed but only come across as drab.. While there is still some flicking at the book's more human themes of best-intentioned familial deceit, forgiveness and healing, they're all but blotted out by Gilles Paquet-Brenner's slapda...

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Eventyret om Askepot (2015) Download Film

A quirky, self-aware dramedy with a vibe that is at turns wiseacre and wise, with tear-jerking moments that are never maudlin and comic moments that are authentic.. If every teen movie were as buoyant, stylish and aware of history as Me And Earl, the cultural landscape would feel a lot smarter.. This movie about a group of risk-takers should have taken more risks itself.. It's a fresh take on contemporary adolescence as a journey from ironic detachment to openhearted feeling.. "Cinderella" feels...

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Online Streaming

Where the Pet Sounds auteur is known for multi-part harmonies, director Bill Pohlad's biopic is a series of simple duets.. A brooding performance by Oscar winner Charlize Theron ... elevates the material from mediocre into bearable.. Grand isn't good enough a word for this Budapest Hotel. Great is more like it.. The entire movie is like a giant, elaborately decorated cake, created by this most exacting of film craftsmen. And how tasty it is!. No matter how you feel about "Gone Girl," there's no ...

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Forelsket i New York (2014) Fuld Film Streaming

Andrew Lloyd Webber's kitschy theatrical spectacle is now a kitschy theatrical movie, a mix of melodrama, horror, romance, mystery and melody heaped together into a cinematic smorgasbord, one heavy in starch.. The trouble with this movie -- aside from its lack of visual wonder and musical shape -- is that you don't trust its priorities.. The movie version of Lloyd Webber's swooning 1986 horror operetta has been directed, by Joel Schumacher, as if Schumacher were the world's hardest-working uphol...

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Love & Mercy (2015) Online Streaming

To capture the artistic process in this way is extraordinary, and in many ways unprecedented.. Innovation, precision, a complete switch in focus, daring ... these are not things you expect from a Hollywood film biography.. Naming a film "Love & Mercy," even if that's one of the lead character's famous songs, implies that it will provide insight and sympathy. That's just what this fascinating drama delivers.. One of the most touching - and gripping - biopics you will ever see.. It's a loving trib...

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Sweeney Todd: Den Djævelske Barber fra Fleet Street (2007) Se Fuld Film

It's as if Burton was born to direct it.. Burton's overall restraint is a welcome surprise. Shorn of his usual camp trappings, the director evokes a sadness beneath every uneasy smile he draws from the audience.. A thoughtful, sincere and moving film, buttressed by a fine, central performance by an actor at the top of his form.. Sondheim's original musical was already a mad synthesis of Jacobean shock, Brechtian irony and Dickensian pathos -- to which Burton's lush visuals add another layer of a...

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Straight Outta Compton (2015) Se Streaming

In the small pool of big-budget hip-hop biopics, "Straight Outta Compton" is near the top.. If any film should be forgiven its excesses, it's Straight Outta Compton, which is about the clashes and camaraderie among men whose unruliness sparked a cultural moment that was beyond their ability-and their willingness-to contain.. Straight Outta Compton aims to cross cultures and sanctify the wisdom of the street-to make a universal underdog story. It succeeds on a visceral level.. While no one will m...

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Juno (2007) Fuld Streaming

What kind of movie is Juno? The rarity that plucks your heartstrings while tickling them.. A serious, interesting film about a very simple concept: The Truth. And how very complicated that can sometimes become.. If the pacing sags a little, and the scale is more modest than the 60 Minutes scandal at the heart of The Insider, Kill the Messenger is still crisp, smart and gutsy.. Most remakes are unnecessary but Annie is a bigger offender than many.. In all the ways that matter it's a missed opport...

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Jem and the Holograms (2015) Spille 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!!. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can...

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Kill the Messenger (2014) Spille Film

There's a surprising amount of bite: the filmmakers openly acknowledge the similarities between the Great Depression and the present, and the populist message, however overstated, always registers as sincere.. The vigorous display of good feelings and comforting resolutions has an unusually effervescent sincerity, even if the rags-to-riches wish-fulfillment leaps over all the hard knocks.. A resonant journalistic cautionary tale gets packaged as a hokey thriller in Kill the Messenger, a movie wi...

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Almost Famous (2000) Spille Streaming

It's a sweet-minded, picaresque story, woolly with some of its dramatic details, but stacked with attractions.... . This is the celluloid version of a glossy magazine feature -- easily perused, modestly entertaining, the kind of piece designed to please the publisher by not taxing (or offending) the reader.. Despite the fun of the parties, the intrigue of the legal wranglings and the humour of the dialogue, Fincher and Sorkin never let us forget that we're complicit in their story (or at least 5...

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Fuld Streaming

There are many reasons to fault "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," but it's sweet enough, and smart enough, to overcome every one of those reasons.. A sprawling, overstuffed, formulaic but highly entertaining story of pop stardom and its discontents in which the pioneers of gangsta rap are burnished to a high mythological gloss.. Affecting without being overly sentimental, humorous without being inappropriately comedic, and quirky without being self-indulgent.. If any film should be forgiven its ...

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Les Misérables (2012) Fuld Film Streaming

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.. Despite its pitfalls, this movie musical is a clutch player that delivers an emotional wallop when it counts. You can walk into the theater as an agnostic, but you may just leave singing with the choir.. It's like a time-lapse photo of an expanding consciousness.. An engaging version of a sweeping epic, an enduring tale of romance, sacrifice and heroism.. So, while it's ...

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Ten Thousand Saints (2015) Spille Streaming

It doesn't have a genuine moment. But even period authenticity would not compensate for cardboard characters and a contrived narrative.. The film shows all the earmarks of a story too heavily compressed; the complications among the entwined families pile up after a while, and the period milieu feels arbitrary.. The cast all do well with banal material that's beneath them, especially Emily Watson, as Eliza's mom, and Hawke, who's everyone's dope-smoking, curfew-less fantasy friend-Dad.. Smart, se...

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Evigt solskin i et pletfrit sind (2004) Fuld Film Streaming

Gondry still lags behind Jonze in rendering cohesive stories and human connection from Kaufman's adventures in self-analysis.. "Ten Thousand Saints" pulsates with full-blooded supporting characters who create a tragic-absurd tapestry of decay and rebellion in the Ronald Reagan years, from depressed New England to volatile New York. It's too bad the center cannot hold.. Part teen romance, part awkward love triangle, part generational-clash portrait, and almost all powered by nostalgia .... A happ...

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