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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sergio” & “Lost Girls”

SERGIO (Netflix – April 17): Greg Barker’s film has an unusual pedigree. Barker, up to this point a documentarian, directed a nonfiction version of the same story (and with the same title) in 2009, but de...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Mayday” and “Prisoners Of the Ghostland”

MAYDAY: The fantasy whatzit is a Sundance staple, and Mayday fits into that category. (Paradise Hills was a recent example from a past festival.) Ana (Grace Van Patten), short for Anastasia, is an ignored and abuse...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Marriage Story” & “Bad Education”

MARRIAGE STORY (Netflix – November 6 in theatres/December 6 streaming): A film doesn’t have to be revolutionary to be great. There may be no subjects more intensively depicted in movies and on television ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Save Yourselves!” & “The Fight”

SAVE YOURSELVES! (no distrib): A moderately amusing sketch that doesn’t quite have the heft for feature length. Writer/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson satirize Brooklyn hipsters and sci-fi in t...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “On the Count of Three” & “Ma Belle, My Beauty”

ON THE COUNT OF THREE: There was a well-deserved Sundance screenwriting prize for Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch’s script for Jerrod Carmichael’s big-screen directing debut, which threads an almost impossible n...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Ford vs. Ferrari” & “The Laundromat”

FORD VS. FERRARI (20th Century Fox/Disney – November 15): If the Academy decides to award James Mangold’s Ford vs. Ferrari, which is certainly a possibility, it will be able to have some metaphorical cake a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “CODA” & “Censor”

A year ago, the idea of a “virtual film festival” would have seemed extremely far-fetched, but it’s become a regular practice in pandemic times. The latest festival to take this path is Sundance, whic...

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Full SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews

This may be heresy, but the virtual Sundance Film Festival went so smoothly that if they offered it as an option in a hopefully pandemic-free 2022, I’d seriously consider passing up the freezing weather and the waits for ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Joker” & “Harriet”

JOKER (Warners – October 4): One’s perception of Todd Phillips’ JOKER may depend in part on the context in which one sees it. In the 11 years since Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the MCU...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

HUMAN FACTORS: Is Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors intended as a political allegory? The married couple at its center are the German Jan (Mark Waschke) and the French Nina (Sabine Timoteo), and there’s a plo...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Studio 54″” & “What They Had”

STUDIO 54 (no distrib): Matt Tynauer’s documentary covers all the bases of the disco that defined nightlife for a surprisingly brief time in the late 1970s, from the club’s construction on the site of an ol...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

MOTHERING SUNDAY (Sony Classics – Nov 19): Eva Husson’s film, adapted by Alice Birch from a Graham Swift novel, has many of the rote trappings of prestige costume drama. We’re back in the English co...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Waves” & “Uncut Gems”

WAVES (A24 – November 1): Trey Edward Shults’ third film (after the micro-budgeted indie Krisha and the horror movie They Come By Night) manages the remarkable feat of feeling both experimental and grounded...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Passing,” “Street Gang” & “Mass”

PASSING: The actress Rebecca Hall has taken a big swing in her writing/directing debut. Her film Passing, based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, embraces ambitious, difficult themes with sensitivity and expertise.�...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Wildlife” & “The Tale”

WILDLIFE (no distrib): If you’ve ever felt sorry for youngsters who are cordoned off from their parents’ difficult relationships, and then blindsided by the consequences, Paul Dano’s directing debut a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sergio” & “Lost Girls”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Mayday” and “Prisoners Of the Ghostland”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Marriage Story” & “Bad Education”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Save Yourselves!” & “The Fight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “On the Count of Three” & “Ma Belle, My Beauty”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Ford vs. Ferrari” & “The Laundromat”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “CODA” & “Censor”

Full SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Joker” & “Harriet”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Studio 54″” & “What They Had”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Waves” & “Uncut Gems”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Passing,” “Street Gang” & “Mass”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Wildlife” & “The Tale”

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