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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Shirley,” “Surge” & “The Climb”

SHIRLEY (no distrib): Josephine Decker’s film isn’t really a biography of the horror writer Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery), played here by Elizabeth Moss. The script by Sarah Gu...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews

When push came to shove, a choice had to be made between The Birth of A Nation and “the farting corpse movie” (AKA Swiss Army Man), and your faithful narrator has to confess that he went with the former, so a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “First Date” & “Pleasure”

FIRST DATE: Your regard for First Date is likely to directly relate to your nostalgia for the low-rent action comedies and Tarantino imitations of the 1990s and 2000s. Those comedies were marked by idiot plots that p...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Knives Out” & “A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood”

KNIVES OUT (Lionsgate – November 27): Rian Johnson’s delectable reinvention of the old-fashioned puzzle whodunnit wears its convoluted plotting on its sleeve, weaving and circling about so that when you thi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Father,” “Nine Days” & “The Glorias”

THE FATHER (Sony Classics – TBD): It’s probably foolhardy to start making predictions about next year’s Oscars when this year’s haven’t even been handed out yet, but it’s hard to ima...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “American Animals” & “The Kindergarten Teacher”

AMERICAN ANIMALS (no distrib): It’s not easy to come up with a new spin on the venerable heist movie genre, but writer/director Bart Layton has managed just that with American Animals. Layton had been until now...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Eight For Silver” & “The Sparks Brothers”

EIGHT FOR SILVER: Sean Ellis’s 19th century werewolf movie takes itself very seriously. Ellis has extensively revised the usual mythology of the genre: the full moon doesn’t figure into things, the were...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hustlers” & “Endings, Beginnings”

HUSTLERS (STX – September 13): Lorena Scafaria becomes the latest filmmaker failing to ascend Martin Scorsese Mountain. Her Hustlers wants to be Goodfellas in its marrow, not only in its based-on-a-true-story t...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”

HORSE GIRL (Netflix – February 7): Every one of the four films Jeff Baena has directed had its premiere at Sundance, with Horse Girl following Life After Beth, Joshy and The Little Hours. It’s an impressi...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Studio 54″” & “What They Had”

STUDIO 54 (no distrib): Matt Tynauer’s documentary covers all the bases of the disco that defined nightlife for a surprisingly brief time in the late 1970s, from the club’s construction on the site of an ol...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah”

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Warners/HBO Max – February 12): The title refers to the FBI informant Bill O’Neal (played here by LaKeith Stanfield) and the Illinois Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton (Daniel ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Marriage Story” & “Bad Education”

MARRIAGE STORY (Netflix – November 6 in theatres/December 6 streaming): A film doesn’t have to be revolutionary to be great. There may be no subjects more intensively depicted in movies and on television ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sergio” & “Lost Girls”

SERGIO (Netflix – April 17): Greg Barker’s film has an unusual pedigree. Barker, up to this point a documentarian, directed a nonfiction version of the same story (and with the same title) in 2009, but de...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Wildlife” & “The Tale”

WILDLIFE (no distrib): If you’ve ever felt sorry for youngsters who are cordoned off from their parents’ difficult relationships, and then blindsided by the consequences, Paul Dano’s directing debut a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “The World To Come” & “Jockey”

THE WORLD TO COME (Bleecker Street – March 2): Although the story is set in 1856, this is 2021, so it’s not hard to see where Mona Fastvold’s The World To Come is heading. Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Shirley,” “Surge” & “The Climb”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “First Date” & “Pleasure”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Knives Out” & “A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Father,” “Nine Days” & “The Glorias”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “American Animals” & “The Kindergarten Teacher”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Eight For Silver” & “The Sparks Brothers”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hustlers” & “Endings, Beginnings”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Studio 54″” & “What They Had”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Marriage Story” & “Bad Education”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sergio” & “Lost Girls”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Wildlife” & “The Tale”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “The World To Come” & “Jockey”

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