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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Dredd”

DREDD, which kicked off the merrily disreputable Midnight Madness program at the Toronto Film Festival last night, isn’t much, but no one can say the director Pete Travis wasted his 3D budget. Things are constantly hoveri...

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NOTE TO READERS: Delayed Text

Due to our coverage of the Toronto Film Festival beginning tomorrow, over the next week, while morning and afternoon charts will be posted on schedule (Nielsen permitting, as yesterday’s and today’s delays un...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 1 Capsule Reviews: “The Magnificent 7″” & “Free Fire”

THE MAGNIFICENT 7 (Village Roadshow/MGM/Columbia/Sony – Sept 23): Cinema survived in 1960 when Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece The Seven Samurai was transformed into an American western, and it will survive th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

THE LAST 5 YEARS (Radius/Weinstein) – release date currently unscheduled – Worth A Ticket Richard LaGravenese’s film version of Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST 5 YEARS, which premiered at the Tor...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Causeway” & “The Menu”

CAUSEWAY (Apple – November 4): After a decade as one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, there was reason to wonder whether the Jennifer Lawrence who first came to prominence with the Sundance movie Winter’...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Zone Of Interest,” “Expats” & “Finestkind”

THE ZONE OF INTEREST (A24 – TBD): Jonathan Glazer has only directed 4 feature films in his 23-year career (the most recent was Under the Skin a decade ago). His latest, The Zone of Interest, is a work of for...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Mini-Reviews

As has been generally reported, this year’s Toronto Film Festival wasn’t a dominant one, lacking the kind of overwhelming favorites that The King’s Speech and Argo have been in recent years. Some potentially majo...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Fabelmans” & “The Eternal Daughter”

THE FABELMANS (Universal – November 11): Like all superheroes, Steven Spielberg has an origin story, and he tells it in The Fabelmans, whose world premiere was far and away the signature event of this year’...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview

The Toronto International Film Festival is, of the major North American festivals, by far the most pleasant to attend. Its line-up of films and clout are matched only by Sundance’s, and it substitutes balmy 70 de...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hit Man,” “Daddio” & “Next Goal Wins”

HIT MAN (no distrib): A clever, funny, sexy entertainment from Richard Linklater and emerging star Glen Powell, who co-wrote the script with the director (both also produced), inspired by an already-wild true story. ...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good Nurse” & “My Policeman”

THE GOOD NURSE (Netflix – Oct. 26): An unusually serious thriller about a serial killer. Tobias Lindholm’s film, from a script by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (who wrote 1917 and Last Night In Soho) and based o...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rust and Bone”

‎ Jacques Audiard doesn’t do sentimental. His last film, A Prophet, had the clear-eyed view of crime and the dramatic heft of a French version of “The Wire,” and his new and very different drama RUST & B...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Boy and the Heron,” “Dumb Money” & “North Star”

THE BOY AND THE HERON (GKids – Dec. 8): Hiyao Miyazaki, a legend of animation (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke), had announced his retirement as a feature film director a decade ago, upon the...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Whale” & “Chevalier”

THE WHALE (A24 – December 9): The fall film festivals usher in awards season, and no performance this year screams “Oscar bait” more than Brendan Fraser’s in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale.�...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

RUSTIN (Netflix – Nov. 17): The director and producer George C. Wolfe is a towering figure in American theater, but his films to date have been wobbly at worst (A Night in Rodanthe, You’re Not You) and stur...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Dredd”

NOTE TO READERS: Delayed Text

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 1 Capsule Reviews: “The Magnificent 7″” & “Free Fire”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Causeway” & “The Menu”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Zone Of Interest,” “Expats” & “Finestkind”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Mini-Reviews

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Fabelmans” & “The Eternal Daughter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hit Man,” “Daddio” & “Next Goal Wins”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good Nurse” & “My Policeman”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rust and Bone”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Boy and the Heron,” “Dumb Money” & “North Star”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Whale” & “Chevalier”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

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