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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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NOTE TO READERS: Delayed Text

Due to our coverage of the Toronto Film Festival beginning tomorrow, over the next week, while morning and afternoon charts will be posted on schedule (Nielsen permitting, as yesterday’s and today’s delays un...

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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 2014 Review: “Nightcrawler”

NIGHTCRAWLER (Open Road) – Opens October 31 – Worth A Ticket Over the past few years, Jake Gyllenhaal has seemed determined to scrub the wholesomeness out of his screen image, in movies like Zodiac, Brothers,...

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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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Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”

THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER (Apple – September 30): Peter Farrelly’s Green Book was one of the clearest beneficiaries of winning Toronto’s People Choice Award, vaulting from being entirely under the aw...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (Warners) – Opens September 19 – Worth A Ticket Jonathan Tropper’s very successful day job is writing seriocomic novels about families and romance that are distinguished by the...

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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 Holdovers,” “Pain Hustlers” & “Woman Of the Hour”

These haven’t been glory days for the Toronto Film Festival. The WGA/SAG strikes dampened the vibe, of course–of the 27 films I saw at TIFF, only 4 screenings featured appearances from the cast. Beyond th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

THE LAST 5 YEARS (Radius/Weinstein) – release date currently unscheduled – Worth A Ticket Richard LaGravenese’s film version of Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST 5 YEARS, which premiered at the Tor...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Causeway” & “The Menu”

CAUSEWAY (Apple – November 4): After a decade as one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, there was reason to wonder whether the Jennifer Lawrence who first came to prominence with the Sundance movie Winter’...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Zone Of Interest,” “Expats” & “Finestkind”

THE ZONE OF INTEREST (A24 – TBD): Jonathan Glazer has only directed 4 feature films in his 23-year career (the most recent was Under the Skin a decade ago). His latest, The Zone of Interest, is a work of for...

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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 Fabelmans” & “The Eternal Daughter”

THE FABELMANS (Universal – November 11): Like all superheroes, Steven Spielberg has an origin story, and he tells it in The Fabelmans, whose world premiere was far and away the signature event of this year’...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview

The Toronto International Film Festival is, of the major North American festivals, by far the most pleasant to attend. Its line-up of films and clout are matched only by Sundance’s, and it substitutes balmy 70 de...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Dredd”

NOTE TO READERS: Delayed Text

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Nightcrawler”

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

Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

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

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Holdovers,” “Pain Hustlers” & “Woman Of the Hour”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Causeway” & “The Menu”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Zone Of Interest,” “Expats” & “Finestkind”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Mini-Reviews

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Fabelmans” & “The Eternal Daughter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview

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