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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Boyhood”

Back when Stanley Kubrick still planned to direct the film that became AI: Artificial Intelligence, he famously toyed with the idea of shooting it bit by bit over a period of years, so that the young protagonist would l...

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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: “Magic Magic”

MAGIC MAGIC never really makes clear what it intends to be, but it’s awfully fascinating to watch. Written and directed by the prolific Sebastian Silva, who had two films at Sundance this year (the other was the we...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Don Jon’s Addiction”

When Joseph Gordon-Levitt decided to make his feature writing and directing debut with DON JON’S ADDICTION (starring in it as well), his attitude was clearly Go Big Or Go Home. To a large extent, he’s pulle...

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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: “Sweetwater”

But for one unfortunately critical element, Logan and Noah Miller’s SWEETWATER (the brothers rewrote a script originally by Andrew McKenzie) is a highly enjoyable darkly comic western, as subsumed in stylized mov...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Sleepwalker”

For SHOWBUZZDAILY’s full set of Sundance capsule reviews, click here. What kind of filmmaker does Mona Fastvold want to be? It’s an existential question that comes up often at Sundance, where artisti...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE FILM REVIEW: “Hellion”

Of all the films in this year’s US Dramatic Competition at Sundance, Kat Candler’s HELLION was the one that most closely matched what’s become a festival template: Aggressively shaky handheld camerawork...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Whiplash”

Damien Chazelle’s powerhouse WHIPLASH is about the pursuit of not just excellence, but perfection, and on its own deliberately limited terms it doesn’t land far from that mark. Whiplash won both the Grand J...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete”

Toy’s House wasn’t the only movie at this year’s Sundance about boys fending for themselves. THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE depicts a less voluntary version of the effort to keep going witho...

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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 @ 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...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Look of Love”

It just wouldn’t be a film festival without something from Michael Winterbottom. Winterbottom isn’t at the very top of the film director pantheon, but he’s respected enough that his projects have been...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Toy’s House”

TOY’S HOUSE is a delightful Sundance surprise, a fresh take on adolescent boys coming of age. The conceit of Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ film, written by Chris Galletta, is that Joe Toy (Nick Robinson), his best ...

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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 REVIEW: “Boyhood”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Touchy Feely”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Magic Magic”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Don Jon’s Addiction”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Sweetwater”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Sleepwalker”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE FILM REVIEW: “Hellion”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Whiplash”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Colette”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Before Midnight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Look of Love”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Toy’s House”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Low Down”

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