Oranges and Sunshine (2011) Spela Strömmande

The result is a problem drama with more problem than drama.. Jim Loach (son of Ken Loach) has his heart in the right place for his feature debut, but a plodding script and muted staging strangely strip away the emotional punch.. It's powerful, gut-wrenching stuff, and it doesn't need tarting up.. A deeply moving study of emotionally scarred adults who were illegally deported as children to Australia...

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Die geliebten Schwestern (2014) Online Streaming

Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Cello-scored pantomimes of resilience and grief can make us feel, but it's not always evident who or what that serves.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing...

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Pompeii (2014) Fullständig Strömning

Parmageddon is nigh in this cheesy action melodrama that feels both overheated with plot developments, yet strangely curdled from a lack of histrionics that might have redeemed it as fun trash.. Narrative has never been Anderson's strength; the story here is a corny overhaul of James Cameron's already-corny Titanic.. A campy guilty pleasure that serves up a "Gladiator'' knockoff as an appetizer to...

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Rubrikernas Man (2003) Online Streaming

It was made strictly by and for Civil War buffs who insist that every pious speech and every skirmish is worthy of filming, even if the end result suffers from serious battle fatigue.. One doesn't come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human terms or what it's like to face a rank of men shooting at you, or to jam a bayonet into somebody's guts or have one jammed into your guts.....

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Jin Yi Wei (2010) Fullständig Film Streaming

A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. While "14 Blades" grinds on perhaps a half-hour too long, its ambitions and energies show that for a fresh take on the western, go east.. Its stylishly retro touch and flashy sets and stunts makes a nice package.. 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...

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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) Spela Strömmande

The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. The movie may sound like a yawn: Three girls walk through wind and rain and scrub brush to get back where they belong. But it's not.. It certainly has its moving moments.. One of 2002's most memorable...

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The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) Spela Strömmande

Like Doubt, this week's other stage-to-screen adaptation, director Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon pours old-fashioned theatrical juice into a cinematic bottle and lets the actors drink it up.. This may not be the greatest golf movie ever made, but it's head and shoulders above other recent screen treatments of the sport.. "Red Tails'' has its moments. They've just gone too far in the other direction. The...

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