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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Peterloo” & “Viper Club”

PETERLOO (Amazon – November 9): Not so much a movie as an illustrated historical recitation. Mike Leigh’s film concerns the brutal 1819 government militia attack on civilians listening to a public address...

by Mitch Salem

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 4 Capsule Reviews: “Sing,” “Denial,” “Nocturnal Animals,” “Moonlight” & “Queen of Katwe”

For this audience member, it was the day Toronto moved into high gear. MOONLIGHT (A24 – October 21): Barry Jenkins’s second film, after his little-seen but much-praised Medicine For Melancholy, is a validat...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Darkest Hour” & “Mudbound”

DARKEST HOUR (Focus/Universal – Nov. 22): A shameless piece of rabble-rousing Hollywood biography, directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten, and served hot on a platter to Oscar voters. The subjec...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Monuments Men”

THE MONUMENTS MEN: Watch It At Home – George Clooney’s Film Is No Classic Work of Art George Clooney’s THE MONUMENTS MEN is a startlingly complete failure. It’s Clooney’s fifth film behi...

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Growing Up Fisher”

GROWING UP FISHER: Tuesday 9:30PM on NBC Previously… on GROWING UP FISHER: When Henry Fisher (Eli Baker) is 12 years old, his parents Mel (J.K. Simmons) and Joyce (Jenna Elfman) decide to divorce, but with litt...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “22 July” & “American Woman”

22 JULY (Netflix – October 10): So many terrible things have happened in the world since July 22, 2011 that at least in the US, few even remember the horrific events that occurred in Oslo, Norway that day, when a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Boy Erased” & “Vita & Virginia”

BOY ERASED (Focus/Universal – November 2): Joel Edgerton’s film is the second of the year concerning gay conversion therapy, and its tone is far more conventional than The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Lu...

by Mitch Salem

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AFI FEST Film Review: “Lone Survivor”

LONE SURVIVOR: Buy A Ticket – A Powerfully Visceral Tale of War Peter Berg’s LONE SURVIVOR, which was shown at the AFI Film Festival tonight in advance of its release late next month, is a docudrama in the ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Trust”

TRUST: Sunday 10PM on FX – DVR Alert TRUST is distinguished initially by what it isn’t. Despite its placement on FX and the fact that it’s a saga of real-life celebrity crime and scandal, it’s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Trust”

A recurring storyline in FX’s TRUST tracked the obsession of J. Paul Getty (Donald Sutherland) with the sumptuous Los Angeles museum that would bear his name, which was ultimately revealed to be a gigantic monument...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

JACKIE (Fox Searchlight – December 9): The most impressive film of the festival thus far is director Pablo Larrain’s jewel-like examination of the realities and artifices behind our perceptions of history, ...

by Mitch Salem

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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...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Peterloo” & “Viper Club”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 4 Capsule Reviews: “Sing,” “Denial,” “Nocturnal Animals,” “Moonlight” & “Queen of Katwe”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Darkest Hour” & “Mudbound”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Monuments Men”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Growing Up Fisher”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “22 July” & “American Woman”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Boy Erased” & “Vita & Virginia”

AFI FEST Film Review: “Lone Survivor”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Trust”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Trust”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

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

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