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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Colette”

COLETTE (no distrib): These days, the early 20th Century French writer known as Colette is remembered mostly if at all for having written the story that became the musical Gigi, but her own life proves to be remarkably...

by Mitch Salem

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AFI FEST Film Review: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY: Buy A Ticket – Ben Stiller’s Imaginative, Flawed Reboot Of The Classic Tale The movies Ben Stiller directs for himself (Reality Bites, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder) are nearly ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

THE LAST 5 YEARS (Radius/Weinstein) – release date currently unscheduled – Worth A Ticket Richard LaGravenese’s film version of Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST 5 YEARS, which premiered at the Tor...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “12 Years A Slave”

Steve McQueen (the filmmaker) doesn’t take it easy on audiences. His first feature Hunger provided an excruciatingly detailed look at the fatal hunger strike of the Irish convict Bobby Sands, and he followed it w...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Robocop”

ROBOCOP: Watch It At Home – A Tinny Remake This weekend’s movie openings feature no less than 3 remakes of 1980s hits, with new versions of ROBOCOP, About Last Night and Endless Love arriving at once, but i...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Danish Girl”

Transgender issues have been such hot-button topics in the news lately that people may not be prepared for how muted and delicate Tom Hooper’s THE DANISH GIRL is. The film, which debuted at the Venice Film Festiv...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR: Buy A Ticket – A 3-Hour Deep Dive Into A Character’s Soul BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR is relentlessly, sometimes suffocatingly intimate. By that I don’t mean its celebrated,...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Jersey Boys”

JERSEY BOYS: Watch It At Home – Clint Eastwood Directing the Broadway Hit Is As Weird As It Sounds No one will mistake the combination of Clint Eastwood and JERSEY BOYS for the fortuitous collision of chocolat...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Review: “I Think We’re Alone Now”

I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW (no distrib): Pop culture seems to have an endless fascination with the post-apocalypse, and I Think We’re Alone Now has plenty of pedigree, hailing from Handmaid’s Tale pilot ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Delivery Man”

DELIVERY MAN: Not Even For Free – Vince Vaughn Tries Wholesomeness DELIVERY MAN, alas, is Vince Vaughn’s Patch Adams. Vaughn’s desire to try something new is understandable: he’s in his mid-...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”

BIRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Worth A Ticket – A Stunt, But An Amazing One Alejandro G. Inarritu’s BIRDMAN is, like this year’s Boyhood, a film defined by its form. In the case of...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “The Past”

Like his Oscar-winning A Separation, Asghar Farhadi’s THE PAST is concerned with the abyss of uncertainty and mystery that lies under seemingly straightforward actions, the ever-increasing complications that bec...

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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 ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Program”

THE PROGRAM feels entirely useless. With an authoritative documentary about the Lance Armstrong story already in wide distribution (Alex Gibney’s excellent The Armstrong Lie), the only reason to attempt a scripte...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Tammy”

TAMMY: Not Even For Free – Melissa McCarthy Fumbles Her Industry Clout When a star earns hundreds of millions of dollars for Hollywood, it can show its appreciation by handing over the creative reins to the star ...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Colette”

AFI FEST Film Review: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “12 Years A Slave”

SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Robocop”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Danish Girl”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Jersey Boys”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Review: “I Think We’re Alone Now”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Delivery Man”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “The Past”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Winter’s Tale”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Program”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Tammy”

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