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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Colette”

COLETTE (no distrib): These days, the early 20th Century French writer known as Colette is remembered mostly if at all for having written the story that became the musical Gigi, but her own life proves to be remarkably...

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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 Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “After the Wedding” & “Adam”

AFTER THE WEDDING (no distrib): The Danish 2006 After the Wedding, which won that year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, was shot by director Suzanne Biers in the then-trendy Dogma style, heavy on pseudo-verite camerawo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The One I Love”

The trouble with trying to recommend THE ONE I LOVE , written by Justin Lader and directed by Charlie McDowell, is that it’s impossible to describe how clever, surprising and intriguing it turns out to be without...

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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 Festival Reviews: “American Animals” & “The Kindergarten Teacher”

AMERICAN ANIMALS (no distrib): It’s not easy to come up with a new spin on the venerable heist movie genre, but writer/director Bart Layton has managed just that with American Animals. Layton had been until now...

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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 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 REVIEW: “Happy Christmas”

Joe Swanberg, the director, writer and co-star of HAPPY CHRISTMAS, which premiered at Sundance earlier this week, makes Woody Allen look lazy. He’s had something like a dozen features to his credit since the sta...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Shirley,” “Surge” & “The Climb”

SHIRLEY (no distrib): Josephine Decker’s film isn’t really a biography of the horror writer Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery), played here by Elizabeth Moss. The script by Sarah Gu...

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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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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 Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “To The Stars” & “Sister Aimee”

TO THE STARS (no distrib): Tales of small-town outcasts are a regular feature at Sundance, and Martha Stephens’ drama is an accomplished example of the genre. Shannon Bradley-Colleary’s script is set in ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Low Down”

No one can accuse LOW DOWN of attempting to glamorize the true story it tells. Jeff Preiss’s first film as a director is a slow, grim dirge set in an underbelly of the jazz world in 1970s Los Angeles, and it...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

THE NEST (no distrib): Sean Durkin’s first feature since 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene presents its emotions with such high-intensity beams that it often feels as though the film is going to slip into the...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Colette”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “After the Wedding” & “Adam”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The One I Love”

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

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “American Animals” & “The Kindergarten Teacher”

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

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Happy Christmas”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Shirley,” “Surge” & “The Climb”

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

Full SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “To The Stars” & “Sister Aimee”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Low Down”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

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