No Man's Land (2001) Online-Streaming-

A well-mounted... seriocomedy with passing punchlines. And for about half the movie, it's compelling stuff.. 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!!. A skillfully wrought, if somewhat predictable, farce involving belligerent opponents, blundering international peacekeepers and excitable journalists.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is t...

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Le Chant des Mariées (2008) Online-Streaming-

The bond between Brochere and Borval is more physical than verbal; they often seem on the verge of a deep, soulful lip-lock, but since neither character is developed satisfactorily, it's hard to develop a rooting interest in...their friendship.. Bless Me, Ultima has its earnest heart - and setting - in the right place.. 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!!....

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Königreich der Himmel (2005) Online-Streaming-

Day-Lewis' voice is thin and reedy, which jibes with historical accounts but subverts our expectations. His attitude makes listeners lean in, and so do we, magnetized by his kindly reserve.. If the picture isn't as engaging as it should have been, Scott's images still make it entrancing.. Black Hawk Down sends you away impressed, properly horrified and then thoughtful about the lessons ignored from the battle it exhaustively describes.. As Balian and his people withstand the might of Saladin's f...

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John Rambo (2008) Online-Streaming-

Well-shot and well-edited violence porn.. 90 minutes of violence. No more, no less.. The enemies so comically monstrous and their deaths so gory, that you may just throw your head back and roar with laughter.. Rambo hits his stride in the film's second half, meting out justice in an unjust world and ultimately the movie works best when warbling its out-of-tune greatest hits.. . Stiffly written, woodenly acted, and indifferently directed.. As vehement in its stereotyping as World War II propagand...

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Edge of Love - Was von der Liebe bleibt (2008) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. The Edge of Love holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it's ultimately not the movie it might have been.. It felt like a lighting class, not a movie.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it prete...

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Corellis Mandoline (2001) Streaming-

Strikes too many false notes on the dramatic side to add up to a satisfying emotional experience.. . Captain Corelli's Mandolin gets things about half right.. Aspiring to melancholy wisdom and worldly significance, the movie achieves only a coy, frothy simulation of whatever we thought we loved about old-fashioned love stories.. We began this dismal movie season with one lethally bad World War II romance -- Pearl Harbor -- and now we're wrapping up with another howling dog, Captain Corelli's Man...

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Voces Inocentes - Unschuldige Stimmen (2004) Online-Streaming-

A deeply moving and powerful film.. A movie with a long echo.. . Mandoki, who with this film returns to the Spanish-speaking cinema after a string of Hollywood films, has brought a sure sense of the visual and taut construction to Innocent Voices.. A howl of grief and outrage that all middle paths were torched in this tragic war.. . This isn't only slightly simplistic politics, it's bad drama.. Director Mandoki has created a film with the gritty honesty of a documentary and the artistic masterst...

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