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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Children Act,” “Suburbicon” & “Chappaquiddick”

THE CHILDREN ACT (no distrib): It’s not intended as disparagement to Ian McEwan’s novel and screenplay adaptation, or to Richard Eyre’s film, that THE CHILDREN ACT feels much of the time like it could...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...

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Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Queer” & “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

QUEER (A24 – TBD): Luca Guadagnino has unearthed glamour in the blood-soaked dance troupe/witches’ coven of Suspiria and the cannibal romance of Bones and All, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that his s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “To The Stars” & “Sister Aimee”

TO THE STARS (no distrib): Tales of small-town outcasts are a regular feature at Sundance, and Martha Stephens’ drama is an accomplished example of the genre. Shannon Bradley-Colleary’s script is set in ...

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Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “On Swift Horses” & “Hard Truths”

ON SWIFT HORSES (no distrib): In the years after World War II, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) marries Lee (Will Poulter), who’s hardworking and in love with her but not exciting, and they move into the Kansas house ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Fargo”

For 3 seasons, Noah Hawley’s FX anthology series FARGO displayed an uncanny ability to channel the unique sensibilities of Joel and Ethan Coen, even while telling original stories with their own idiosyncratic chara...

by Mitch Salem

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Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “The Brutalist” & “The Last Showgirl”

THE BRUTALIST (A24 – TBD): The most remarkable thing about Brady Corbet’s epic may be that it’s so enjoyable to watch. The notion of a 197-minute saga (not including intermission) about Holocaust s...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”

ON THE ROAD – Worth A Ticket – Kerouac’s Classic Is Beautiful and Atmospheric But Lacks Urgency ON THE ROAD, as a novel and now as a film adaptation, is so enmeshed with the mythology of the real-life p...

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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Masters of Sex”

MASTERS OF SEX: Sunday 10PM on Showtime – Potential DVR Alert After the macho angst of Ray Donovan and–notwithstanding its excellence–the heavy going of Homeland, Showtime smartly changes pace with MA...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Masters of Sex”

Michelle Ashford’s series MASTERS OF SEX has been the extraordinary surprise of the fall television season. It seemed, on its face, to be dauntingly unpromising. In telling the story of sex researchers William ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Children Act,” “Suburbicon” & “Chappaquiddick”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Queer” & “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “To The Stars” & “Sister Aimee”

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “On Swift Horses” & “Hard Truths”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Fargo”

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “The Brutalist” & “The Last Showgirl”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Masters of Sex”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Masters of Sex”

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