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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “Love Me” & “Handling the Undead”

LOVE ME (no distrib): A truly existential romance. Many years after the end of the human race, seemingly due to a combination of nuclear war and a new ice age, the two remaining artifacts with any ability to communic...

by Mitch Salem

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Emily the Criminal” & “blood”

EMILY THE CRIMINAL (no distrib): John Patton Ford’s feature debut is a lean, gritty, accomplished thriller with a smashing star performance from Aubrey Plaza. Plaza (who also produced) plays the titular Emily, ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Guilty,” “Lakewood” & “The Starling”

THE GUILTY (Netflix – Oct. 1): One way to cope with the challenges and costs of movie production during Covid is to limit the number of actors who have to be in front of the camera. That’s tough for a thr...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

MOTHERING SUNDAY (Sony Classics – Nov 19): Eva Husson’s film, adapted by Alice Birch from a Graham Swift novel, has many of the rote trappings of prestige costume drama. We’re back in the English co...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Kidding”

Hardly anyone has been watching KIDDING, which makes Showtime’s decision to renew the show for a second season a sign of their commitment either to indie movie sensibility or to being in business with Jim Carrey. ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

BREATHE (Bleecker Street – Oct 13): BREATHE wasn’t the favored Triumph of the Human Spirit drama at Toronto this year; that title went to Stronger, with Jake Gyllanhaal as a survivor of the Boston Marathon ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Feed The Beast”

FEED THE BEAST: Tuesday 10PM on AMC – Change the Channel There’s not much on the menu of AMC’s new FEED THE BEAST, which previewed tonight in advance of its regular timeslot debut on Tuesday. The sh...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her”

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM & HER is an extraordinary feature debut for its writer/director Ned Benson. Indeed, it’s so remarkable that it comes close to not needing the modifier “debutR...

by Mitch Salem

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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “Love Me” & “Handling the Undead”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Emily the Criminal” & “blood”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Guilty,” “Lakewood” & “The Starling”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Kidding”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Feed The Beast”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her”

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