OV in HH (english-language screenings in Hamburg)

Apr 17 - Apr 23

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Movies 2025

This is a list of all the films shown in this year's sneak preview so far. Unlike many other movie reviews, the comments and ratings of the mySneak.de team & contributors reflect the subjective opinion of the respective author (directly after attending the sneak preview). We encourage you to take part in the audience voting (right) and write your opinion about the last movie in the forum (or read what others have to say), so other opions can also be 'heard'.

Films from previous sneak years can be found in the Movie Archive.

Sneak Film	Team Rating	Web Voting
#1520 21. April
"Death of a Unicorn" 10 days before German release
Horror/comedy about a father/daughter pair (Raul Rudd/Jenna Ortega) that collides with a Unicorn while on the way to some remote retreat. Further complications arise when the Unicorn show some wild healing properties - and when the parent of the Unicorn show up... [Kasi Mir]	Roughale: Kasi Mir:		sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1519 14. April
"Warfare" 3 days before German release
Retelling of a November 2006 attack by Iraqis on a US company during the oocupation of Iraq following George W. Bush's invasion of the country. [Kasi Mir]	Roughale: Simon: Kasi Mir:	(∅ = 2,99 Stars) Average Grade: 3 / C	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1518 07. April
"Last Breath" 31 days before German release
A disaster movie in an unusual setting. A saturation diver who does maintenance work on an oil pipeline has an accident out of bad luck and needs to be rescued by his colleagues while his oxygen runs out. Based on true events and a prior documentary by the same director, this was a tense, but a bit conventional film.[Jan]	Roughale: Simon:	(∅ = 3,78 Stars) Average Grade: 2 / B	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1517 31. March
"The Penguin Lessons" 24 days before German release
Tom Michell (Steve Coogan) starts out as an English teacher on a school in Argentinia in 1976 at the start of the military dictatorship there. During a school break he saves a penguin from an oil spill and has to learn again how to be responsible for someone- in private and in public[Jan]	Roughale: Simon: Dennis:	(∅ = 3,98 Stars) Average Grade: 2 / B	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1516 24. March
"The Assessment" 10 days before German release
In an unknown future birth control is very strict and each couple has to go through a 7 day test phase to prove they are fit for a child.[Rafael]	Roughale:	(∅ = 3,08 Stars) Average Grade: 3+ / C+	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1515 17. March
"The Last Show Girl" 3 days before German release
57-year old Shelly (Pamela Anderson) has to come to terms with the fact that her show will be closing down. It's quite a simple story and I found the script lacking in some points, but the casting of Pamela Anderson in the lead was a really good move: An actress, which was reduced to her looks plays a character, which is also reduced to her looks for her job. But here she can show that she is a capable actress. Dave Bautista also showed more depth in his performance than usual.[Jan]	Roughale:	(∅ = 3,01 Stars) Average Grade: 3 / C	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1514 10. March
"Riff Raff" 17 days before German release
When his ne'er-do-well son and his ex-wife arrive unannounced at an ex-Hitmans (Ed Harris) holiday retreat, it obviously means danger. They are on the run from a gangster (cast against type: Bill Murray), who applied the services of Ed Harris' character. His new family doesn't really know about his past. The film has a much more comedic tone than being a thriller. The first half has more jokes that fall flat, but when the second half arrives and the plot is moving, the film delivers decent amounts of fun.[Jan]	Roughale: emma: Dennis:	(∅ = 2,84 Stars) Average Grade: 3 / C	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1513 03. March
"The Critic" 10 days before German release
Sir Ian McKellen switches sides and plays a sharp-tongued and feared theater critic in the 1930s in London. When he gets fired from his newspaper, he uses the help of an actress (Gemma Arterton) he regularly ripped to shreds in his critiques to get revenge on his publisher (Mark Strong) for his firing. A thematically interesting story, but the screenplay juggles around with too many side elements to keep the story engaging. The great cast makes it watchable.[Jan]	Roughale: emma: Simon:	(∅ = 2,85 Stars) Average Grade: 3 / C	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1512 24. February
"I Like Movies" 31 days before German release
This little movie is a discovery. Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) is a difficult "kid", someone you don't necessarily have to like. He loves movies and wants to study film, but usually gets in the way of himself and his environment. As the story unfolds, we begin to understand the reasons behind his behavior. In the end, it's a feel-good movie after all, thanks to its well-developed characters and our eventual connection with Lawrence.[Dennis]	Dennis: emma: Roughale:	(∅ = 3,49 Stars) Average Grade: 3+ / C+	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1511 17. February
"Love Hurts" 17 days before German release
Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan ("Everything Everywhere All at Once") gets cast again as an unusual action hero in "Love Hurts" with an Oscar nominee (Ariana DeBose) . Marvin Gable (Quan) works in a real estate agency, but in a former life he was a henchman for a mob boss, who has unfinished business with Gable's love interest (DeBose) . On Valentine's Day his past is catching up with him. The film was directed by a stuntman and is only interested in the - deliberately silly- action sequences. The characters and the story are mere window dressing for the action, which adds no dramatic weight to any of those sequences.[Jan]	Simon: Roughale: Dennis: emma:	(∅ = 2,56 Stars) Average Grade: 3- / C-	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1510 10. February
"Sing Sing" 17 days before German release
Yesterday in the Sneak was "Sing Sing" which is about a Sing Sing prison theatre group. Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting alongside other prisoners. Things take an emotional turn with an unexpected newcomer showing up (Clarence Maclin). Based on a true story with an ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors.[Simon]	emma: Roughale: Dennis: Simon:	(∅ = 3,94 Stars) Average Grade: 2 / B	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1509 3. February
"Companion" 3 days before German release
"Companion" (2025) is an American science fiction/dark comedy/thriller written and directed by Drew Hancock. A couple (Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid) goes on a weekend getaway with friends at a remote cabin, which turns into chaos after a big revelation is made.[emma]	Roughale:	(∅ = 3,62 Stars) Average Grade: 2 / B	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1508 27. January
"Maria" (2024) 10 days before German release
It's the 3rd biographical psychological drama directed by Pablo Larraín, after "Jackie" (Sneak #1148 in 2017) and "Spencer" (Sneak #1346 in 2021). This time he follows opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) in 1977's Paris, as she reflects on her life and career over the seven days before her death.[emma]	Roughale: Simon: emma:	(∅ = 2,9 Stars) Average Grade: 3 / C	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1507 22. January
"Wolf Man" (2025) 3 days before German release
"Wolf Man" is about Blake, a father (Christopher Abbot) who returns to his estranged father's home in rural Oregon with his family. On their way they get mysteriously attacked which injures the father. The wound gets infected and Blake slowly transforms into a werewolf, while he struggles to protect his wife (Julia Garner) and daughter. Directed by Leigh Whannell.[emma]	Roughale: Simon:	(∅ = 1,9 Stars) Average Grade: 4 / D	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1506 13. January
"Piece by Piece" (2024) 10 days before German release
"Piece by Piece", directed by Morgan Neville, is a biographical documentary entirely animated through LEGO. It chronicles the life and career of Pharrell Williams, his creative journey and musical influences from a little kid to the artist he is today. It includes interviews with him, as well as other known members from the music industry he worked with.[emma]	Simon: emma: Roughale: Dennis:	(∅ = 2,67 Stars) Average Grade: 3 / C	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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#1505 2. January
"A Real Pain" 10 days before German release
The first Sneak movie of 2025 was "A Real Pain", which follows mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they travel through Poland to honor their deceased grandmother, but their trip takes a dark turn when their old tensions resurface. The film was nominated four times at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Eisenberg twice (Actor/Screenplay), but it was Kieran Culkin who won (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role)[emma]	Rafael: emma: Dennis:	(∅ = 3,7 Stars) Average Grade: 2 / B	sehr gut gut nett mäßig schwach schlecht
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Grading System

=	sehr gut (1)	A / Excellent, really good
=	gut (2)	B / Good, was worth it
=	nett (3)	C / Average
=	mäßig (4)	D / Below Average
=	schwach (5)	F / failure
=	schlecht (6)	Total failure, stay away