The Edge of Love (2008) Se Fuld Film

It felt like a lighting class, not a movie.. Like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do.. The Edge of Love is the sort of muddled melodrama that has little to say about love, or anything else.. A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations with his boozy Irish wife and his young Welsh girlfriend.. The film succeeds as a deeply involving study of men and women caught up in a whirlwind...

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Fury (2014) Download Fuld

It's an "unflinching" account of war -- "unflinching," in quotes, because every moment of the film is composed to grind your face into the muck and be proud of itself for doing so.. In a sense, it succeeds too well in conjuring its own subject matter: heavy, mechanical, claustrophobic, and unrelenting.. Though much of Fury crumbles in the mind, the power of its best moments lingers .... Attention to details give Fury heft and value, as does solid acting, but Ayer seems to lose his resolve in two...

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War Horse (2011) Spille Film

A film that may stay in the mind's eye longer than it lingers in the heart.. It's not that a film can't be lighthearted family fare, a gritty war epic and a weepie all at once; the problem is that here, those elements feel strictly compartmentalized -- and calculated.. Amid the incomprehensible slaughter, it's a horse that reminds these warriors of their humanity.. We never ask why the production is devoted to an animal while ten million men are dying, but when Spielberg does the story realistic...

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Essential Killing (2010) Fuld Streaming

The film ends with a moving and surprisingly sophisticated meditation on the definition of moral duty.. Well-photographed and acted, Joyeux Noel suffers most from the inevitable comparison with its betters, such films as Paths of Glory or All Quiet on the Western Front.. Stripped of its political vestments, Essential Killing is a chase film almost existential in its rawness and virtually silent in its unfolding -- just a pursued man reduced by circumstance to a primitive state.. The film conceal...

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Operation Valkyrie (2008) Download Film

Valkyrie transforms World War II into a boy's adventure.. Director Sam Mendes' third screen outing pretty well nails Swofford's tone, which was mordant without being disrespectful, and, in fact, is begrudgingly reverent of the Corps.. Gyllenhaal is the heart and soul of a darkly funny and ferociously intense movie that sets its sights on soldiers under the gun of doing nothing.. The best war movies -- and this one, despite its being overlong and repetitive, is among them -- hold that men fight (...

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