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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Worth,” “Dream Horse” & “Uncle Frank”

WORTH (no distrib): A dry but fascinating angle on the story of 9/11, Worth centers on the real-life Ken Feinberg (Michael Keaton), an attorney with a very specific expertise: he and his firm calculated and negotiate...

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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 Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Damsel” & “Puzzle”

DAMSEL (no distrib): A hipster representation of comedy rather than anything comic itself. Written and directed by David and Nathan Zellner, whose previous work includes the similarly film festival-targeted Kumiko, T...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

RUSTIN (Netflix – Nov. 17): The director and producer George C. Wolfe is a towering figure in American theater, but his films to date have been wobbly at worst (A Night in Rodanthe, You’re Not You) and stur...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Promising Young Woman,” “Four Good Days” & “Zola”

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Focus/Universal – April 17): Emerald Fennell’s feature-film writing/directing debut has antecedents as old as the 1973 TV-movie The Girl Most Likely To… (co-written by Joan Rive...

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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 Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “A Kid Like Jake” & “You Were Never Really Here”

A KID LIKE JAKE (no distrib): Silas Howard’s dramedy is a small-scale triumph, successfully navigating its way from a wry account of upper-middle-class Brooklynites Alex and Greg (Claire Danes and Jim Parsons) tr...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “American Fiction,” “The Critic” & “Mother, Couch”

AMERICAN FICTION (Orion/MGM/Amazon – Nov. 17): The Toronto People’s Choice Award has been something of a golden ticket to a Best Picture nomination over the years, and this year the prize went to Cord Jeff...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

THE NEST (no distrib): Sean Durkin’s first feature since 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene presents its emotions with such high-intensity beams that it often feels as though the film is going to slip into the...

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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: “Just Mercy,” “Pain & Glory,” “The Personal History of David Copperfield” & “Varda By Agnes”

JUST MERCY (Warners – December 25): As the release date suggests, this is a straight-down-the-middle Oscar play, and it may have some success in that arena (although Warners will also be campaigning for The Goldf...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Burial,” “Wildcat” & “Poolman”

THE BURIAL (MGM/Amazon – Oct. 13): A yarn that’s also a true story. Jeremiah O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) was the owner of a family-run, regional Mississippi business that for decades had offered funer...

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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 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 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 Film Reviews: “Worth,” “Dream Horse” & “Uncle Frank”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Damsel” & “Puzzle”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Promising Young Woman,” “Four Good Days” & “Zola”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “A Kid Like Jake” & “You Were Never Really Here”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “American Fiction,” “The Critic” & “Mother, Couch”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Just Mercy,” “Pain & Glory,” “The Personal History of David Copperfield” & “Varda By Agnes”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Burial,” “Wildcat” & “Poolman”

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

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

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

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