THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Monte Carlo” – Fizzled Champagne
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Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”
FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...
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 ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Adventures of Tintin”
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: Worth A Ticket – The Return of Steven Spielberg Remember how lousy the last Indiana Jones movie was? Remember watching it and wondering sadly what had become of Steven Spielberg...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Savages”
SAVAGES: Watch It At Home – Great Book, OK Movie Don Winslow’s novel SAVAGES is one of the extraordinary reads of recent years. The plot may sound unremarkable–a mini-war is waged between a couple o...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Margin Call”
MARGIN CALL: Worth A Ticket – The Real Sequel to”Wall Street” MARGIN CALL is smarter and more gripping than Moneyball and The Ides of March combined–and those are two smart, grippi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”
It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it. Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Colombiana”
COLOMBIANA – Not Even For Free: Even the Body Count Is Dull For a movie from the Luc Besson House of Action, COLOMBIANA is surprisingly listless and dispirited. Besson first came to prominence as a direc...
Roger Ebert (1942-2013): The Balcony Is Closed
Roger Ebert, after enduring cancer with extraordinary fortitude for over a decade, passed away today. Ebert was one of the smartest, hardest-working and most passionate film critics of his generation, and almost certai...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview
The Toronto International Film Festival is, of the major North American festivals, by far the most pleasant to attend. Its line-up of films and clout are matched only by Sundance’s, and it substitutes balmy 70 de...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “Bad Behaviour,” & “Divinity”
SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING: The Office, for depressives. Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the most anonymous member of a nondescript shipping department in a small Oregon town, wrapped in so many layers of emotional insulat...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rock of Ages”
ROCK OF AGES: Watch It At Home – Stop Believin’ No one expects finesse from a movie musical constructed out of songs by Journey, Twisted Sister and Def Leppard. And, to be certain, the hair-band era of th...