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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Now You See Me”

NOW YOU SEE ME: Watch It At Home – Don’t Look Too Closely A summer action movie, like a magic act, is only as good as its final trick, and the one in the relatively low-budget NOW YOU SEE ME (which this sea...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Flora & Son,” “A Little Prayer” & “The Pod Generation”

FLORA AND SON (Apple): John Carney’s Irish dramedy was (with Fair Play) the commercial bonanza of Sundance, reportedly with a $20M pricetag. It isn’t hard to see why the studio and streamer checkbooks cam...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Lego Movie”

THE LEGO MOVIE: Buy A Ticket – The Pieces All Fit Together Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s THE LEGO MOVIE wants to have its family movie cake and eat it too, and it’s a remarkably tasty dish. Leg...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “People Like Us”

PEOPLE LIKE US: Watch It At Home – Not The First Movie Like This Sam Harper (Chris Pine) is a guy we’ve met before. He’s the fast-talking, self-absorbed hustler who gets along in life by shee...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Gangster Squad”

GANGSTER SQUAD – Watch It At Home – Snappy, Violent and Completely Vacuous Watching the new GANGSTER SQUAD is a bit like checking into one of those giant Vegas theme park hotels and expecting to find yourself...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY VOD REVIEW: “The Magic of Belle Isle”

THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE: In Limited Theatrical Release and on VOD – If Nothing Else Is On Few recent Hollywood career trajectories have been as puzzling as Rob Reiner’s. From 1984-1992, Reiner dire...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Look of Love”

It just wouldn’t be a film festival without something from Michael Winterbottom. Winterbottom isn’t at the very top of the film director pantheon, but he’s respected enough that his projects have been...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Sweetwater”

But for one unfortunately critical element, Logan and Noah Miller’s SWEETWATER (the brothers rewrote a script originally by Andrew McKenzie) is a highly enjoyable darkly comic western, as subsumed in stylized mov...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “The Book Thief”

THE BOOK THIEF: Watch It At Home – A Nazi Germany Fairy Tale THE BOOK THIEF is about as heartwarming and easygoing as any story could be that’s narrated by Death and touched by the Holocaust. That’s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Great Expectations”

At this point in movie history, it’s beside the point to ask why we even need a new film version of GREAT EXPECTATIONS when David Lean’s 1946 masterpiece still exists. (And for those who want a different slant on ...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”

HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS: Not At Any Price – Audiences Won’t Live Happily Ever After HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS is mostly terrible, but say this for it: it’s not terrible like anyt...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Afternoon Delight”

It takes quite a while–almost its entire length, in fact–for the utter conventionality of AFTERNOON DELIGHT to become clear. Jill Soloway’s feature directing debut, for which she unaccountably won a S...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “That Awkward Moment”

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT: Watch It At Home – Low-Impact Rom-Com If you heard that a new indie movie featured the stars of the past 2 years’ back-to-back Sundance sensations, Michael B. Jordan from 2013’s F...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Gravity”

It’s not really a surprise to see Alfonso Cuaron join James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott in that small group of film artists who have made 3D part of the essential toolbox of their imagery (no, Baz Luh...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Skyfall”

SKYFALL: Worth A Ticket – Bond Reborn For years–decades, actually–there have been periodic murmurings that a “real” director would one day take the helm of a James Bond movie. At various...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Now You See Me”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Flora & Son,” “A Little Prayer” & “The Pod Generation”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Lego Movie”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “People Like Us”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Gangster Squad”

SHOWBUZZDAILY VOD REVIEW: “The Magic of Belle Isle”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Look of Love”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Sweetwater”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “The Book Thief”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Great Expectations”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Afternoon Delight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “That Awkward Moment”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Gravity”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Skyfall”

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