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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “True Detective”

The idea of applying a deep coat of existential angst to thriller conventions isn’t new–every Sundance Film Festival has at least a couple of examples of the sub-genre, and there are even sub-sub-genres of th...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Total Recall”

TOTAL RECALL: Watch It At Home – Unmemorable TOTAL RECALL isn’t the worst picture of the summer, and probably won’t be the biggest flop, but it may be the most unnecessary waste of everyone’s ti...

by Mitch Salem

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AFI FEST REVIEW: “Saving Mr. Banks”

SAVING MR. BANKS: Buy A Ticket – Positively Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious SAVING MR. BANKS , which screened at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles last night before opening in theaters next month, is a movi...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Disobedience” & “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

DISOBEDIENCE (no distrib): Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation (with Rebecca Landiewicz) of Naomi Alderman’s novel is one of the surprises of the festival. It would be perfectly reasonable for the idea of Rachel...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Widows” & “The Front Runner”

WIDOWS (20th – Nov. 16): Widows is a genre movie that isn’t sure it wants to be one. That’s not a shock, because the idea of the aesthete director Steve McQueen, of Hunger, Shame and 12 Years A Slav...

by Mitch Salem

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “892” & “After Yang”

892 (no distrib): John Boyega’s turbo-charged performance fuels this true story. In 2017, when Brian Brown-Easley (Boyega) entered a Wells Fargo branch in a suburb of Atlanta and informed the teller that his ba...

by Mitch Salem

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Banshees of Inisherin” & “The Son”

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Searchlight/Disney – October 21): After a sojourn in America with 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland with the comic tragedy ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Dead Man Down”

DEAD MAN DOWN: Watch It At Home – Effectively Moody Tale of Revenge Until its final reel, when it arrives pretty much where you thought it was going to go from the very start, and in a way even dumber than you ex...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Winter’s Tale”

WINTER’S TALE: Not Even For Free – 2 Hours of Thin Tinsel The new movie WINTER’S TALE makes one ponder the phrase “labor of love.” It marks the feature directing debut of the enormously ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “True Detective”

TRUE DETECTIVE: Sunday 9PM on HBO The first season of TRUE DETECTIVE was so masterfully assembled that it took some time for people to question what taste it was leaving in their mouths. When Matthew McConaughey̵...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Lobster”

The allegory is piled on so thickly in Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE LOBSTER that after a while, it’s not clear just what the underlying subject is supposed to be. Lanthimos is a cult-favorite filmmaker (the cult m...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “True Detective”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Total Recall”

AFI FEST REVIEW: “Saving Mr. Banks”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Disobedience” & “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Widows” & “The Front Runner”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “892” & “After Yang”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Banshees of Inisherin” & “The Son”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Dead Man Down”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Winter’s Tale”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “True Detective”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Lobster”

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