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OSCARS MINUS 5: The Sure Thing That Is, and The One That Isn’t

The voting has just closed for this year’s Academy Awards, and here at Oscar Central, we are ready to make the following call: Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the Best Actor Oscar for Lincoln. I know, way out on a...

by Mitch Salem

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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Interstellar”

INTERSTELLAR: Worth A Ticket – Christopher Nolan’s Imperfect Odyssey Remember A.I.: Artificial Intelligence? It was the deeply odd sci-fi/fairy tale quasi-collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Steve...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Martian”

Ridley Scott’s THE MARTIAN is the jaunty sci-fi offspring of Apollo 13 and McGyver, Scott’s least self-important movie in years and not coincidentally his most enjoyable. Drew Goddard’s expertly craft...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Molly’s Game” & “I Love You, Daddy”

MOLLY’S GAME (STX): Aaron Sorkin is a celebrated (or notorious, depending on your point of view) control freak, so it’s surprising that it’s taken him this long to decide to direct his own work. His...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Forgiven,” “Dashcam” & “Montana Story”

THE FORGIVEN (Focus/Universal – TBD): In 1963, Pauline Kael famously wrote a piece entitled “The Sick-Soul-Of-Europe Parties,” and almost 60 years later, if you add the US to the guest list, John Mich...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Sundown” & “The Mad Women’s Ball”

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE (Searchlight/Disney – in release): The reason for expanding a documentary into a scripted narrative is typically to allow for an exploration of motive and emotional background not available...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lawless”

LAWLESS: Watch It At Home – A Moonshine War To Make You Long for “Boardwalk Empire” Director John Hillcoat specializes in stark, emotionally distanced pulp, and if that sounds like a contradiction in ...

by Mitch Salem

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good Nurse” & “My Policeman”

THE GOOD NURSE (Netflix – Oct. 26): An unusually serious thriller about a serial killer. Tobias Lindholm’s film, from a script by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (who wrote 1917 and Last Night In Soho) and based o...

by Mitch Salem

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CRITICS AWARDS: The National Board of Review’s Day

The National Board of Review is an organization whose members are largely unknown (and the opinions of whom are of zero interest), with an existence that gets noticed on exactly one day of the year, like that one groundh...

by Mitch Salem

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

RUSTIN (Netflix – Nov. 17): The director and producer George C. Wolfe is a towering figure in American theater, but his films to date have been wobbly at worst (A Night in Rodanthe, You’re Not You) and stur...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Zero Dark Thirty”

ZERO DARK THIRTY: Worth A Ticket – The Year’s Most Gripping Thriller Is True You already know how ZERO DARK THIRTY ends. You knew how All the President’s Men ended, too, and Apollo 13 and Titanic. ...

by Mitch Salem

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Oscar Odds: After the Golden Globes

After its Golden Globes win for Best Drama, the odds of winning Best Picture for Argo improved a bit (moving from a $7.50 payout on a $1 wager to $5.25 and moving past Les Miserables into second place). But the favorite rem...

by Mitch Metcalf

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OSCARS MINUS 5: The Sure Thing That Is, and The One That Isn’t

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Interstellar”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Martian”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Molly’s Game” & “I Love You, Daddy”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Forgiven,” “Dashcam” & “Montana Story”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Sundown” & “The Mad Women’s Ball”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lawless”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good Nurse” & “My Policeman”

CRITICS AWARDS: The National Board of Review’s Day

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Zero Dark Thirty”

Oscar Odds: After the Golden Globes

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