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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “12 Years A Slave”

Steve McQueen (the filmmaker) doesn’t take it easy on audiences. His first feature Hunger provided an excruciatingly detailed look at the fatal hunger strike of the Irish convict Bobby Sands, and he followed it w...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Theory of Everything”

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (Focus/Universal) – Opens November 7 – Worth A Ticket There’s a benefit but also a burden to being clear-cut “Oscar bait.” At this point we all know the kinds of...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/12/15

OPENINGS: THE LONGEST RIDE (20th) tried to counterprogram Furious 7 with a Nicholas Sparks romance, but didn’t even muss the blockbuster’s hair with a $13.5M opening. That’s better than the lousy $10M star...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Miss Americana,” “Ironbark” & “Scare Me”

MISS AMERICANA (Netflix – January 31): There are certainly areas of Taylor Swift’s life that are carefully elided in MISS AMERICANA (her actor boyfriend’s face and name are absent, for example, and th...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Women Talking” & “Saint Omer”

WOMEN TALKING (UA/MGM/Amazon – December 9): In an insular Mennonite community, the woman have always believed what the men told them, that when they awake to discover evidence of sexual assault and thereafter som...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Fargo”

FX’s just-concluded third season of Noah Hawley’s FARGO was its most divisive, and the criticisms came from a number of directions. One segment was simply done with Hawley’s theme-and variations appro...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Manhunt: Unabomber”

MANHUNT: UNABOMBER: Tuesday 10PM on Discovery – In the Queue Discovery’s 8-hour docudrama miniseries MANHUNT: UNABOMBER features its Ted Kaczynski (Paul Bettany) only in the final sequence of its opening 2 ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” & “In the Fade”

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN (Annapurna – Oct. 13): In the hothouse of a film festival, movies that are unrelated inevitably begin to collide with each other in the viewer’s mind. So it’s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Ford vs. Ferrari” & “The Laundromat”

FORD VS. FERRARI (20th Century Fox/Disney – November 15): If the Academy decides to award James Mangold’s Ford vs. Ferrari, which is certainly a possibility, it will be able to have some metaphorical cake a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Official Secrets” & “Greener Grass”

OFFICIAL SECRETS (IFC): Film festivals have a way of creating unintended double features when thematically similar films are seen in close proximity, and it’s hard to watch Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets wit...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

BREATHE (Bleecker Street – Oct 13): BREATHE wasn’t the favored Triumph of the Human Spirit drama at Toronto this year; that title went to Stronger, with Jake Gyllanhaal as a survivor of the Boston Marathon ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “A Star Is Born” & “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

A STAR IS BORN (Warners – October 5): Bradley Cooper, making his directing debut, decided to do the equivalent of a first-time weightlifter starting out with a 400-pound barbell. It isn’t just that A Star...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Judy” & “Motherless Brooklyn”

JUDY (Roadside – September 27): Oscar bait in its fullest form, a showbiz celebrity biography built around the work of a performer making a comeback, requiring said performer to alter appearance and render servic...

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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “Thelma” & “Rob Peace”

THELMA (no distrib): In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of what might uncharitably be called Old Lady Cinema, noisy comedies like the Book Club franchise and 80 For Brady that milk gags out of the spectacle of ...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Theater Camp,” “Radical” & “Mutt”

THEATER CAMP (Searchlight/Disney): The odds are that a lot of people who’ll want to see a movie called Theater Camp are comfortable with the kind of ramshackle, hit-or-miss qualities associated with actual summer...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “12 Years A Slave”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Theory of Everything”

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/12/15

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Miss Americana,” “Ironbark” & “Scare Me”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Women Talking” & “Saint Omer”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Fargo”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Manhunt: Unabomber”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” & “In the Fade”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Ford vs. Ferrari” & “The Laundromat”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Official Secrets” & “Greener Grass”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “A Star Is Born” & “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Judy” & “Motherless Brooklyn”

Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “Thelma” & “Rob Peace”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Theater Camp,” “Radical” & “Mutt”

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