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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “Ruby Sparks”

RUBY SPARKS: Worth A Ticket – A Narrative Feat Woody Allen is one of the most influential figures in modern independent film, but his ghost is usually evident in the many romantic comedy-dramas we get each...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “Sleepless Night”

> When the inevitable US remake of the French thriller SLEEPLESS NIGHT arrives, it’ll benefit from some sharper dialogue (assuming the subtitles in Toronto were fully translating the original), a bit more characterization...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”

> Derick Martini’s HICK is like a Sundance movie that took the wrong indie-film exit and wound up in Toronto. For whatever reason, Toronto’s film festival tends to find itself with fewer stories of young peopl...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Thanks For Sharing”

Stuart Blumberg’s first film as a director (his screenwriting credits include The Kids Are All Right), THANKS FOR SHARING, never quite manages to solve its own central problem: how to make a sensitive and funny (and not...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”

> In just her second feature film as a director (her first was 2006’s Oscar-nominated Away From Her), Sarah Polley demonstrates that she’s already a filmmaker with rare grace and sensuality in TAKE THIS WALTZ, which...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 1 Capsule Reviews: “The Magnificent 7″” & “Free Fire”

THE MAGNIFICENT 7 (Village Roadshow/MGM/Columbia/Sony – Sept 23): Cinema survived in 1960 when Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece The Seven Samurai was transformed into an American western, and it will survive th...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Albert Nobbs”

> Rodrigo Garcia’s film ALBERT NOBBS (he shares auteurship with Glenn Close, who served as screenwriter with John Banville and Gabriella Prekop and as a producer as well as star) caters to what used to be called the James...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Review: “Juliet, Naked”

JULIET, NAKED (no distrib): Every Sundance has a title or two that isn’t particularly “indie,” other than by the fact that its stars aren’t hugely bankable. These aren’t the films that s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

REBEL IN THE RYE (no distrib): Danny Strong’s first film as a director is a biography of J. D. Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), and it hits all the Salinger bullet points: his early struggles to get published, his sp...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Ten Year”

> TEN YEAR, which premiered tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, is one of the few festival movies that has the feel of a potential hit. This is because, apart from its hugely engaging cast and, to be sure, some effectiv...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF; Collected Reviews

>Click below for all SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s collected Toronto Film Festival reviews, in alphabetical order: 360 50/50 ALBERT NOBBS THE ARTIST BUTTER DAMSELS IN DISTRESS THE DEEP BLUE SEA THE DESCENDANTS DRIVE HICK THE IDES OF MA...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Madonna’s “W.E.”

> One of the enduring questions of Madonna’s illustrious quarter-century career is how someone so brilliant in managing every other facet of her persona has consistently made such terrible decisions when it comes to movie...

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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...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish I Was Here”

Zach Braff’s WISH I WAS HERE, his first film as a writer-director since Garden State 10 years ago, mixes genuine, deeply-felt emotion with the kind of contrivances that would grate even on a second-rate sitcom. (...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “In the Earth” & “Knocking”

IN THE EARTH (Neon): After his foray into more commercial cinema with the Netflix remake of Rebecca that didn’t go very well, Ben Wheatley has returned to the stranger and more experimental style of his earlier f...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “Ruby Sparks”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “Sleepless Night”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Thanks For Sharing”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 1 Capsule Reviews: “The Magnificent 7″” & “Free Fire”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Albert Nobbs”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Review: “Juliet, Naked”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Ten Year”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF; Collected Reviews

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Madonna’s “W.E.”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish I Was Here”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “In the Earth” & “Knocking”

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