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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish I Was Here”

Zach Braff’s WISH I WAS HERE, his first film as a writer-director since Garden State 10 years ago, mixes genuine, deeply-felt emotion with the kind of contrivances that would grate even on a second-rate sitcom. (...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Touchy Feely”

TOUCHY FEELY offers the gifted writer/director Lynn Shelton taking herself very, very seriously for the most part. It turns out to be a less effective mode for her than those of her recent small-scale comedies Humpday ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman”

It’s a cliche to say, when a director of commercials and music videos helms his or her first feature film, that the result resembles a video extended to feature length–and certainly not one that’s always true,...

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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 2013: “Lovelace”

There are any number of ways the story of Linda Lovelace and Deep Throat could be told to make a potentially fascinating movie, from the sociological to the political, the personal to the satiric. The laziest–o...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

There’s a tendency to compare any slow-moving, beautifully-photographed drama with an abundance of natural imagery to the films of Terence Malick, but that’s unfair to the very particular surreal spirituality...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “In A World…”

The actress Lake Bell’s feature-film writing/directing debut IN A WORLD… has a fresh slant on showbiz comedy, and it’s both consistently likable and sometimes very funny. It’s also sloppy, ove...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Afternoon Delight”

It takes quite a while–almost its entire length, in fact–for the utter conventionality of AFTERNOON DELIGHT to become clear. Jill Soloway’s feature directing debut, for which she unaccountably won a S...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Before Midnight”

The “spoiler” situation with respect to Richard Linklater’s BEFORE MIDNIGHT is a particularly tricky one, because for those passionately invested in the saga that began with 1995’s Before Sunr...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Lifeguard”

If you go to too many Sundances, or see too many indie films, there are certain templates you come to recognize all too quickly. THE LIFEGUARD, written and directed by Liz W. Garcia, a TV writer (Memphis Beat, Cold Cas...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish I Was Here”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Touchy Feely”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Low Down”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Lovelace”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “In A World…”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Afternoon Delight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Before Midnight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Lifeguard”

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