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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Holdovers,” “Pain Hustlers” & “Woman Of the Hour”

These haven’t been glory days for the Toronto Film Festival. The WGA/SAG strikes dampened the vibe, of course–of the 27 films I saw at TIFF, only 4 screenings featured appearances from the cast. Beyond th...

by Mitch Salem

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Past Lives,” “Fairyland” & “Infinity Pool”

PAST LIVES (A24): The playwright Celine Song makes an impressive feature writing/directing debut with the lovely, eloquent Past Lives. The film is sort of the opposite of Sliding Doors and all of the multiversal ente...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Roma” & “Green Book”

ROMA (Netflix – Dec. 14): Alfonso Cuaron is one of the master filmmakers of this era, and Roma confirms that all over again. It’s a deceptively simple memory piece, a semi-autobiographical story set in th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Deuce”

David Simon is unquestionably a pivotal figure in the history of contemporary TV, yet he’s never been associated with a mainstream hit. From Homicide: Life On The Street to The Wire to Treme to Show Me A Hero, hi...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 3 Capsule Reviews: A Monster Calls, Lion, The Bleeder, Colossal & Elle

COLOSSAL (no distrib): Well, you haven’t seen this take on sci-fi spectacles before. In Nacho Vigalondo’s whatzit, party girl Gloria (Anne Hathaway) and her hometown friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) discover...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Mad Men”

Matthew Weiner had always cultivated an air of mystery around MAD MEN (those impenetrable promos!), and the show itself has been its share of enigmatic at times, which made many wonder if tonight’s series finale wo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “American Hustle”

AMERICAN HUSTLE: Buy A Ticket – David O. Russell’s Epic Romp Is a Party That Goes On Till Dawn Even though it’s concerned with con men, low-lifes and deluded losers, AMERICAN HUSTLE is the happiest mo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Computer Chess”

Andrew Bujalski’s COMPUTER CHESS has a great setting for a comedy. The time is circa 1980, and the place is an anonymous hotel where a group of nerds–back before nerds were cool–have gathered for thei...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...

by Mitch Salem

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Holdovers,” “Pain Hustlers” & “Woman Of the Hour”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Past Lives,” “Fairyland” & “Infinity Pool”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Roma” & “Green Book”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Deuce”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 3 Capsule Reviews: A Monster Calls, Lion, The Bleeder, Colossal & Elle

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Mad Men”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “American Hustle”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Computer Chess”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

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