THE BIJOU LIMITED RELEASE REVIEW: “A Better Life”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Goats”
Virtually every screening at Sundance is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, and while these sessions can be informative and charming (although 3 questions that need never be asked again are How long did you shoot?...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”
THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Road to Nowhere”
Not At Any Price: “Art” More Than Art The name Monte Hellman doesn’t mean much to the vast majority of moviegoers, but Hellman is among the cultiest of American cult directors. He came up the Roge...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”
BEING FLYNN: Watch It At Home – Troubling Story That Doesn’t Go Deep Enough There’s a scene in Paul Weitz’s new film BEING FLYNN where Jonathan Flynn (Robert DeNiro), the alcoholic...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “A Better Life”
A BETTER LIFE – Watch It At Home: Earnest Isn’t Enough Impending disaster hangs over every early scene of Chris Weitz’s new film A BETTER LIFE. As soon as we’re introduced to Carlos ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Safety Not Guaranteed”
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED: Worth A Ticket – Time Is Of Its Essence Nothing in SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED happens the way you’d expect. The film was inspired by a real-life classified ad run by someone looking for ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “A.C.O.D.”
Stu Zicherman’s A.C.O.D. (written by Zicherman and Ben Karlin) suffers a bit from a familiar indie comedy malady: the conflicting desires to tell meaningful and even dark stories, while at the same time getting ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Another Earth”
ANOTHER EARTH – Worth A Ticket: Tiny Story With Big Ambitions For ANOTHER EARTH, the Sundance Film Festival went exactly the way it’s supposed to. The low-key picture was made on a miniscule bud...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lola Versus”
LOLA VERSUS: Watch It At Home – An Unmemorable Woman LOLA VERSUS‘ ambition is pretty clear: it wants to be the 2012 version of Paul Mazursky’s 1978 comedy-drama AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, which is to say c...
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...