THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “The Persian Version,” “The Starling Girl,” & “The Accidental Getaway Driver”
THE PERSIAN VERSION (Sony Classics): Maryam Keshavarz’s dramedy won the Sundance Audience Award in the US Dramatic Competition, and it’s a smart mixture of broad comedy and family drama. The comedy is mos...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted”
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED – Worth A Ticket – A Circus Indeed There’s a certain luxury in being DreamWorks Animation. Pixar gets the awards and the acclaim, but it’s also held ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Jack & Jill”
JACK AND JILL: Not At Any Price – 2 Adam Sandlers is 2 Too Many Does anyone really expect an Adam Sandler movie to be good anymore? Seriously, if you put aside his occasional relatively serious effort...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Mirror Mirror”
MIRROR MIRROR: Not Even For Free – 7 Years Bad Luck When it was announced that 2012 would bring two big-budget movie versions of the Snow White story, not to mention TV’s Once Upon A Ti...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Cat Person,” “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” & “My Animal”
CAT PERSON: It seems to be necessary to establish one’s bona fides (or lack thereof) before commenting on Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person, so I’ll note that I’ve never read Kristen Roupenian’s ...
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: “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 @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”
Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Sitter”
THE SITTER: Not At Any Price – Adventures In Bad Moviemaking Jonah Hill is awfully lucky to have made Moneyball this year. In that film, fueled by a brilliant Aaron Sorkin/Steven Zaillain script, he gave...