Sundance film festival reviews

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...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Review: “The Farewell”

THE FAREWELL (A24): Lulu Wang’s The Farewell is what could be called Sundance Classic, a small, very personal film nurtured by the festival into wide enough attention that A24 paid $6M to release it. It’s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Late Night” & “Paradise Hills”

LATE NIGHT (Amazon): It’s legitimate to note that the thoroughly mainstream and commercial Late Night belonged at Sundance just about as much as The Devil Wears Prada would have, since to a large extent it transp...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Monster” & “Beirut”

MONSTER (no distrib): There’s less than meets the eye in Anthony Mandler’s Monster. Based by Colen C. Wiley, Radha Black and Janece Shaffer on Walter Dean Myers’ novel, it seems like it’s goin...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews

When push came to shove, a choice had to be made between The Birth of A Nation and “the farting corpse movie” (AKA Swiss Army Man), and your faithful narrator has to confess that he went with the former, so a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance 2015 Review: “Zipper”

The title ZIPPER suggests something wittier and more enticing than Mora Stephens’ well-made melodrama turns out to be. If a filmmaker is determined to reexamine the familiar story of a politician who can’t...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance 2015 Review: “The Bronze”

THE BRONZE is an entertaining but standard-issue R-rated American comedy, equal parts Bad Teacher and any Danny McBride vehicle, which makes one wonder what it’s doing in the Dramatic Competition line-up at the S...

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Review: “The Farewell”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Late Night” & “Paradise Hills”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Monster” & “Beirut”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance 2015 Review: “Zipper”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance 2015 Review: “The Bronze”

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