SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
CHRONICLE – Worth A Ticket – “Found Footage” That Deserves to Be Found Over the past decade, audience hunger for “reality”–the word very much in quotation marks–ha...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE: Mini-Reviews
Sundance is sometimes thrilling, but it can also be an ordeal. Especially when the films are good, but not great. And even more so if you arrive with limited tickets, and are left to the tender mercies of the Wait Li...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE: Collected Reviews
Click on SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s reviews from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in alphabetical order: 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (Magnolia) BACHELORETTE (No Distrib) BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Fox Searchlight) CE...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Middle of Nowhere”
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, which won the Sundance US Dramatic Directing award for Ava DuVernay last night, is in no rush. The films moves with deliberation as it establishes its leading character and her difficult situation: ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Pact”
It takes about an hour, but Nicholas McCarthy’s THE PACT, which premiered in the Park City At Midnight section at Sundance, eventually turns out to have a neat twist up its sleeve, one that switches the movie from ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Filly Brown”
FILLY BROWN, directed by Youssef Delara (who also wrote the script) and Michael D. Olmos, falls into a recognizable Sundance genre: sagas of poor young women (usually ethnic) struggling to escape their poverty a...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “V/H/S”
V/H/S, which screened as part of Sundance’s Park City At Midnight series, is a gimmick piled upon a gimmick. First is the horror anthology itself, familiar from the Twilight Zone movie and Rod Serling’s Night...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Shadow Dancer”
Plot and character revelations are a critical part of James Marsh’s subtle, complex spy drama SHADOW DANCER, adapted by Tom Bradby from his own novel, so I’ll be circumspect in describing its plot beyond the ...