THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Horrible Bosses” – 401 (kill) Plan
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Magazine Dreams,” “Polite Society” & “Drift”
MAGAZINE DREAMS: The hype was accurate: Jonathan Majors gives a titanic performance in Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams. Playing Killian, a roided-up amateur bodybuilder obsessed with achieving glory in that pr...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Lorax”
THE LORAX: Not Even For Free – A Seussian Mess It may not be pretty, but surely it’s true–Credit must go where credit is due. In this case, that means the Universal Pictures Marketing ...
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: “Happy Feet Too”
HAPPY FEET TWO: Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact. But sequels often at least try...
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: ...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Theater Camp,” “Radical” & “Mutt”
THEATER CAMP (Searchlight/Disney): The odds are that a lot of people who’ll want to see a movie called Theater Camp are comfortable with the kind of ramshackle, hit-or-miss qualities associated with actual summer...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “When You Finish Saving The World” & “Fresh”
It’s the second consecutive Virtual Sundance, with safety, convenience and isolation in place of weather, shuttle buses and community. Over the next several days, we’ll be bringing you reviews of several Su...
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?...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “On Chesil Beach” & “Loveless”
ON CHESIL BEACH (no distrib): Ian McEwan’s longish novella/shortish novel has been adapted by McEwan himself into a fluid and extremely English film, the first feature directed by stage director Dominic Cooke. ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tower Heist”
TOWER HEIST: Watch It At Home – Hardly Luxury-Class There may never have been a director more proud of being a hack than Brett Ratner. In a recent NY Times profile, Ratner boasts (when he’s ...