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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Eileen,” “Shortcomings” & “Landscape With Invisible Hand”

EILEEN: A dark tale of liberation, based on the novel by Ottessa Moshlegh (and adapted by Moshlegh with Luke Goebel). Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is an anonymous employee at a boys’ prison in a confining, wintry...

by Mitch Salem

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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “It’s What’s Inside” & “My Old Ass”

IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE (Netflix – TBD): The biggest sale of the festival as of this writing–a $17M paycheck from Netflix–was its most dynamite entertainment. Greg Jardin’s feature wri...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Magic Magic”

MAGIC MAGIC never really makes clear what it intends to be, but it’s awfully fascinating to watch. Written and directed by the prolific Sebastian Silva, who had two films at Sundance this year (the other was the we...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “The Predator” & “Greta”

FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (Midwestern – opens September 21): In the course of Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore takes a shot at Jeff Zucker and Les Moonves for admitting that Donald Trump has been good for their businesses, b...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “I Am Mother” & “The Lodge”

I AM MOTHER (no distrib): Grant Sputore’s impressively controlled first feature brings us back to the post-apocalypse. In Michael Lloyd Green’s script, it appears as though the only surviving remnant of h...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Luce” & “Sonja: The White Swan”

LUCE (Neon): Julius Onah’s film was one of the most gripping and provocative of the festival, combining a tale about social and racial tensions with the suspense of a psychological thriller. Based by director J...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “In the Earth” & “Knocking”

IN THE EARTH (Neon): After his foray into more commercial cinema with the Netflix remake of Rebecca that didn’t go very well, Ben Wheatley has returned to the stranger and more experimental style of his earlier f...

by Mitch Salem

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Eileen,” “Shortcomings” & “Landscape With Invisible Hand”

Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “It’s What’s Inside” & “My Old Ass”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Magic Magic”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “The Predator” & “Greta”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “I Am Mother” & “The Lodge”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Luce” & “Sonja: The White Swan”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “In the Earth” & “Knocking”

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