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SHOWBUZZDAILY 2014 Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews

The consensus is that the 2014 Sundance Film Festival was a solid but unexciting one. To an extent that’s a business judgment: whatever its leaders may say publicly, Sundance gave itself up long ago to being as m...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Worth,” “Dream Horse” & “Uncle Frank”

WORTH (no distrib): A dry but fascinating angle on the story of 9/11, Worth centers on the real-life Ken Feinberg (Michael Keaton), an attorney with a very specific expertise: he and his firm calculated and negotiate...

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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 Reviews: “The Father,” “Nine Days” & “The Glorias”

THE FATHER (Sony Classics – TBD): It’s probably foolhardy to start making predictions about next year’s Oscars when this year’s haven’t even been handed out yet, but it’s hard to ima...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”

HORSE GIRL (Netflix – February 7): Every one of the four films Jeff Baena has directed had its premiere at Sundance, with Horse Girl following Life After Beth, Joshy and The Little Hours. It’s an impressi...

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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: “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...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Land,” “Together Together” & “Marvelous and the Black Hole”

MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE: Goodhearted YA comfort food. Kate Tsang’s feature debut is about 13-year old Sammy (Miya Cech), who has become surly and rebellious toward her father Angus (Leonardo Nam) and siste...

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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 2014 Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Worth,” “Dream Horse” & “Uncle Frank”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Father,” “Nine Days” & “The Glorias”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”

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

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Land,” “Together Together” & “Marvelous and the Black Hole”

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

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