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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Come Sunday” & “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”

COME SUNDAY (Netflix): American films that feature religious figures tend to come in two varieties: the cloying “faith-based” dramas that play quite literally to the choir, and the “edgy” film...

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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 Virtual Sundance Reviews: “The World To Come” & “Jockey”

THE WORLD TO COME (Bleecker Street – March 2): Although the story is set in 1856, this is 2021, so it’s not hard to see where Mona Fastvold’s The World To Come is heading. Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard...

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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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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Burial,” “Wildcat” & “Poolman”

THE BURIAL (MGM/Amazon – Oct. 13): A yarn that’s also a true story. Jeremiah O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) was the owner of a family-run, regional Mississippi business that for decades had offered funer...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Eight For Silver” & “The Sparks Brothers”

EIGHT FOR SILVER: Sean Ellis’s 19th century werewolf movie takes itself very seriously. Ellis has extensively revised the usual mythology of the genre: the full moon doesn’t figure into things, the were...

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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 Sundance Film Reviews: “Promising Young Woman,” “Four Good Days” & “Zola”

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Focus/Universal – April 17): Emerald Fennell’s feature-film writing/directing debut has antecedents as old as the 1973 TV-movie The Girl Most Likely To… (co-written by Joan Rive...

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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 Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah”

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Warners/HBO Max – February 12): The title refers to the FBI informant Bill O’Neal (played here by LaKeith Stanfield) and the Illinois Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton (Daniel ...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hit Man,” “Daddio” & “Next Goal Wins”

HIT MAN (no distrib): A clever, funny, sexy entertainment from Richard Linklater and emerging star Glen Powell, who co-wrote the script with the director (both also produced), inspired by an already-wild true story. ...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “His Three Daughters,” “Backspot” & “Lee”

HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (no distrib): The premise of Azazel Jacobs’ film is simple enough to be staged as a play: as their father Vincent (Jay O. Sanders) lies dying in an unseen room of his Bronx apartment, Katie...

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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Jojo Rabbit” & “Seberg”

JOJO RABBIT (Fox Searchlight – October 4): The discourse about Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit has quickly become a debate between those who think its Nazi-era black comedy is authentically daring, and those wh...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “First Date” & “Pleasure”

FIRST DATE: Your regard for First Date is likely to directly relate to your nostalgia for the low-rent action comedies and Tarantino imitations of the 1990s and 2000s. Those comedies were marked by idiot plots that p...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Come Sunday” & “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “The World To Come” & “Jockey”

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

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Burial,” “Wildcat” & “Poolman”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Eight For Silver” & “The Sparks Brothers”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Promising Young Woman,” “Four Good Days” & “Zola”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hit Man,” “Daddio” & “Next Goal Wins”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “His Three Daughters,” “Backspot” & “Lee”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Jojo Rabbit” & “Seberg”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “First Date” & “Pleasure”

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