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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (Warners) – Opens September 19 – Worth A Ticket Jonathan Tropper’s very successful day job is writing seriocomic novels about families and romance that are distinguished by the...

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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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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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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Frances Ha” & “Imogene”

One of the things that happens at film festivals is that as you see many films in back-to-back proximity, mini-trends start to emerge, at least in the mind, and pictures that were made entirely separately, and which may ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria”

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (IFC): no release date scheduled – Watch It At Home Olivier Assayas is a dazzlingly ambitious filmmaker, determined to do something totally different with each project he undertakes. The re...

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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Nightcrawler”

NIGHTCRAWLER (Open Road) – Opens October 31 – Worth A Ticket Over the past few years, Jake Gyllenhaal has seemed determined to scrub the wholesomeness out of his screen image, in movies like Zodiac, Brothers,...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR: Buy A Ticket – A 3-Hour Deep Dive Into A Character’s Soul BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR is relentlessly, sometimes suffocatingly intimate. By that I don’t mean its celebrated,...

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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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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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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

This was a Toronto Film Festival unlike any other, and not just because I “attended” it from the laptop in my house. Toronto has become an important stop on the road to the Academy Awards, with 9 of the pas...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”

ON THE ROAD – Worth A Ticket – Kerouac’s Classic Is Beautiful and Atmospheric But Lacks Urgency ON THE ROAD, as a novel and now as a film adaptation, is so enmeshed with the mythology of the real-life p...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Worst Person In The World,” “Encounter” & “Compartment No. 6”

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Neon – TBD): The Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, despite being a subject of critical raves over the years, hasn’t penetrated the space where arthouse favorites become known...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

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

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rust and Bone”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Frances Ha” & “Imogene”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria”

NOTE TO READERS: Delayed Text

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Nightcrawler”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Dredd”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Mini-Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Worst Person In The World,” “Encounter” & “Compartment No. 6”

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