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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Humans,” “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” & “The Wheel”

THE HUMANS (A24/Showtime – Nov. 24): There are typically two strategies for adapting a celebrated play about a small number of people in a limited space to the screen. One is to “open it up,” adding...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “The World To Come” & “Jockey”

THE WORLD TO COME (Bleecker Street – March 2): Although the story is set in 1856, this is 2021, so it’s not hard to see where Mona Fastvold’s The World To Come is heading. Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Land,” “Together Together” & “Marvelous and the Black Hole”

MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE: Goodhearted YA comfort food. Kate Tsang’s feature debut is about 13-year old Sammy (Miya Cech), who has become surly and rebellious toward her father Angus (Leonardo Nam) and siste...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

HUMAN FACTORS: Is Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors intended as a political allegory? The married couple at its center are the German Jan (Mark Waschke) and the French Nina (Sabine Timoteo), and there’s a plo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “CODA” & “Censor”

A year ago, the idea of a “virtual film festival” would have seemed extremely far-fetched, but it’s become a regular practice in pandemic times. The latest festival to take this path is Sundance, whic...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Council of Dads”

COUNCIL OF DADS – Regular episodes begin airing April 30 on NBC NBC isn’t trying to fool anyone with its hopes for COUNCIL OF DADS. The network aired a “preview” of its pilot more than a month b...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

THE NEST (no distrib): Sean Durkin’s first feature since 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene presents its emotions with such high-intensity beams that it often feels as though the film is going to slip into the...

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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 Series Finale Review: “Rectify”

The fourth and final season of Ray McKinnon’s Sundance series RECTIFY, perhaps the most universally acclaimed television program of the post-Sopranos era, was its most conventional. There were few surreal stretch...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

Last week’s episode of NBC’s THIS IS US notched an impressive achievement: in Live + 7 ratings, it moved past Empire to become the highest rated drama on broadcast TV. Admittedly, L7 ratings aren’t ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Ray Donovan”

RAY DONOVAN: Sunday 9PM on Showtime When a car crashes into a Los Angeles wall in the Season 4 premiere of Showtime’s sizable if somewhat inexplicable hit RAY DONOVAN, it doesn’t just crash into a wall: i...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Finding Carter”

MTV’s FINDING CARTER is another high-concept series challenged by its concept losing some of its height. The original impetus for the story was teenager Carter (Kathryn Prescott) being rescued from a kidnapping a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Parenthood”

PARENTHOOD: Thursday 10PM on NBC It’s something of a miracle that PARENTHOOD, with its marginal-or-worse ratings, low concept and large, expensive cast, even survived to a 6th season on NBC. Much of its luck ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Finding Carter”

FINDING CARTER was the surprise of the summer TV season,. Hailing from the wilds of MTV, a network rarely known for its dramatic chops, the series, created by Emily Silver and show-run by Terri Minsky, has told a compe...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Judge”

THE JUDGE (Warners) – Opens October 10 – Watch It At Home Since the first Iron Man opened, Robert Downey Jr. has been one of the world’s biggest (and wealthiest) stars. But he hasn’t used his su...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Humans,” “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” & “The Wheel”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “The World To Come” & “Jockey”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Land,” “Together Together” & “Marvelous and the Black Hole”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “CODA” & “Censor”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Council of Dads”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Rectify”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Ray Donovan”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Finding Carter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Parenthood”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Finding Carter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Judge”

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