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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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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Banshees of Inisherin” & “The Son”

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Searchlight/Disney – October 21): After a sojourn in America with 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland with the comic tragedy ...

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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: “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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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Woman King” & “Prisoner’s Daughter”

THE WOMAN KING (Tri-Star/Sony – Sept. 16): Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King feels something like what would happen if the Themyscira Island Amazonian sequences of Wonder Woman were feature length. D...

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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 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: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” & “Corsage”

WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY (Roku – November 4): A comic book fantasia of a celebrity “biography,” Eric Appel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (co-written with Yankovic himself, who’s also ...

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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: “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: “Bros” & “Butcher’s Crossing”

BROS (Universal – Sept. 30): Notwithstanding its occasional meta self-deprecation, it’s clear that Nicholas Stoller and Billy Eichner (both writer/producers and respectively director and star) want Bros to ...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Inspection” & “Emily”

THE INSPECTION (A24 – November 14): Back in 1983, Robert Altman directed the film version of David Rabe’s play Streamers, about a Vietnam-era boot camp that turned even more violent and vicious with the cat...

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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 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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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Glass Onion” & “Pearl”

GLASS ONION (Netflix – November 4 in theaters, December 23 online): After Rian Johnson’s Knives Out broke through to become one of the increasingly few non-IP-based mainstream hits in the market ($311.6M wo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Dredd”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Banshees of Inisherin” & “The Son”

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

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

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Woman King” & “Prisoner’s Daughter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Mini-Reviews

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

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” & “Corsage”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rust and Bone”

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

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Bros” & “Butcher’s Crossing”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Inspection” & “Emily”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Glass Onion” & “Pearl”

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