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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Save the Date”

> Michael Mohan’s SAVE THE DATE, which premiered this afternoon at Sundance, doesn’t earn its points from an original premise. It concerns 2 divergent sisters, Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) and Beth (Alison Brie), but mostly...

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THOR: Hammered

> Watch It At Home: The God of Thunder Musters a Tinny Roar. Put it this way: the new superhero epic THOR cost something like $150M to produce, required the diligent services of hundreds of professionals over a peri...

by Mitch Salem

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LIMITED RELEASE: “Beautiful Boy”

> Watch It At Home: Much sadness, little insight. BEAUTIFUL BOY is less interesting than you’d think it would be. The premise is certainly arresting: Shawn Ku’s first film (written with Michael Arm...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Compliance”

> Sundance has a thriving Park City At Midnight program that features plenty of high-octane horror movies, but the most unnerving and disturbing film of this year’s festival may have been Craig Zobel’s COMPLIANCE, a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Celeste & Jesse Forever”

> The festival has its first crowd-pleaser in CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER, a light but heartfelt romantic comedy-drama in the Woody Allen vein. Written by Rashida Jones (who also stars as Celeste) and Will Mc McCormack (on hand a...

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LIMITED RELEASES: “Queen to Play,” “Ceremony” and “Meet Monica Velour”

> Today, 3 films from first-time directors: Caroline Bottaro’s marvelous QUEEN TO PLAY is, in a sense, a sports movie. We have the out-of-nowhere player whose newly-discovered talent shakes up her whole life, the wi...

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RIO: Cartoon Carnival

> Worth A Ticket; Birds Fly High Enough for Kids, and Adults Too. Click For More Reviews: THOR PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Animation has, over the past decade, passed beyond ...

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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top

> Watch It At Home; A circus story that’s not the greatest show in the multiplex. Sometimes even a small moment in a movie can typify how it’s gone wrong. There’s a scene fairly early in WATER FOR ELEPHA...

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LIMITED RELEASE: “Henry’s Crime”

> Watch It At Home: Petty larceny. Sometimes casting can be too good: Keanu Reeves playing a guy who pretty much sleepwalks through his own life is practically redundant. His whole style, from the very start o...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish You Were Here”

>Two Australian couples vacation together on the beaches of Cambodia, but only 3 people return. That’s the set-up for Kieran Darcy-Smith’s skilled debut WISH YOU WERE HERE, which premiered as part of Sundance’...

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“MIDNIGHT IN PARIS” : Ah, Paree!

> Worth A Ticket; A tasty croissant from Woody Allen. Woody Allen interrupts the opening credits of his new comedy MIDNIGHT IN PARIS to insert a montage of lovely Paris locations. I mention this because after more than 40...

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PROM: Bland-Land

> Not Even For Free; No Pig’s Blood At This Shindig. The relationships we have with the stars we watch are no less real for being imaginary, and that’s particularly true for television stars, whom we often watch inh...

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SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

> Worth a ticket. They say that the definition of madness is repeating the same action with the expectation of a different result. But that diagnosis doesn’t allow for this: a man (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up an...

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LIMITED RELEASE: “The Double Hour,” “Incendies” & “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

> Plot spoilers are even more problematic when it comes to limited releases, because by definition they’re only being seen by a few people in certain selected locations, and–if they’re good–will ideally ...

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THE BEAVER: Chew On This

> Watch It At Home: Gibson Delivers, The Movie Wobbles As you may have heard, the new comedy-drama THE BEAVER stars a guy named Mel Gibson, who used to be a big-time movie star. (It’s actually a surprise to re...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Save the Date”

THOR: Hammered

LIMITED RELEASE: “Beautiful Boy”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Compliance”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Celeste & Jesse Forever”

LIMITED RELEASES: “Queen to Play,” “Ceremony” and “Meet Monica Velour”

RIO: Cartoon Carnival

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top

LIMITED RELEASE: “Henry’s Crime”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish You Were Here”

“MIDNIGHT IN PARIS” : Ah, Paree!

PROM: Bland-Land

SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

LIMITED RELEASE: “The Double Hour,” “Incendies” & “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

THE BEAVER: Chew On This

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