Now for the final stretch! Sundance 2025 had its fair share of unexpected gems, divisive oddities, and films that sparked conversations. Let’s wrap things up with…
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For this next batch, we’re diving into a mix of eerie slow burns, offbeat comedies, and one particularly emotional farewell. Sundance is always full of surprises,…
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival has wrapped, and what a ride it was. With relocation rumors swirling, unexpected weather challenges, and an undercurrent of political tension,…
In Train Dreams, director Clint Bentley delivers a striking adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, crafting a meditation on fate and grief, and how the passage of…
Writer-director James Sweeney’s Twinless begins with an off-screen car accident and an abrupt cut to a funeral — a tonal whiplash moment that immediately sets the…
Laura Casabé’s The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic category at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, fuses gothic horror with the…
Sierra Falconer’s debut feature, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), unfolds like a series of postcards from a small-town summer: vivid, fleeting, and quietly profound.…
As the snow settles onto the ski slopes of Park City, Utah, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is poised to deliver another year of cinematic discoveries…
It’s always an amazing adventure to be a part of the Sundance Film Festival experience. Returning to snowcapped Park City, Utah for film, food, and friends…
Your MonsterDirected by Caroline Lindy When aspiring stage actress Laura (Melissa Barrera) is dumped — via text, no less — by her playwright boyfriend Jacob (Edmund…
Rose Glass already showcased her genre bonafides with her debut feature, Saint Maud, about an obsessive nurse walking a razor-thin line between faith and fanaticism. But…
After cutting their teeth on decidedly indie fare like Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind, directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden graduated to the MCU, helming 2019’s…
Documentary filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine wowed audiences in 2020 with their film Boys State, following a group of high school-aged young men from across…
Sundance films get divided into various categories to help participants decide what type of genres they might be drawn to. By no means does a classification…
I’ve been very fortunate that all the documentaries I’ve experienced over the years during the festival have been a real joy, and Dutch director Anton Corbjin’s…
Murder in Big HornDirected by Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin For decades, an epidemic has been plaguing Native American communities across the United States, as countless…
Sometimes you read a synopsis for a film and you know immediately that you need to see it; such was the case for director Roger Ross…
For the first time in three years, I returned to beautiful, snowy Park City to attend the Sundance Film Festival in person. The 2023 version of…
JamojayaDirected by Justin Chon Justin Chon returns to Sundance with this story of Indonesian rapper James (Brian Imanuel), a rising star who inks a deal with…
Growing up in a small town in rural Indiana, my exposure to Hollywood came almost exclusively from VHS tapes. My parents weren’t particularly interested in going…
Still reeling from the recent death of her father, fertility doctor Sarah (Sarah Snook) is hoping a birthday celebration for 7-year-old daughter Mia (Lily LaTorre) might…
My last set of Sundance films this year started with the star-studded cast of Alice, featuring Keke Palmer, Jonny Lee Miller, and Common. The film opens…
After a strong first round of Sundance films, the bar was set extremely high the next set, which kicked off with Watcher. Julia (Maika Monroe) is…
This year’s version of the Sundance Film Festival got a little bit closer to feeling “normal,” even with the in-person experience being canceled in early January.…
We’re in the home stretch of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and although we were fortunate enough to screen 19 films over the course of five…
Sundance 2022 is beginning to wind down: praise is being lavished, deals are being made, and the festival is closer to the end than the beginning.…
With the chaos of Sundance 2022’s opening weekend now behind us and the dust beginning to settle, we’re taking a break from screenings to catch up…
Emergency stars Donald Elise Watkins and RJ Cyler as two best friends with a singular mission: to become the first Black students at their university to…
When You Finish Saving the World finds Jesse Eisenberg stepping behind the camera for the first time, adapting his acclaimed audio drama into a feature length…
After last year’s hybrid offering, which featured digital screenings and satellite theaters across the country, the Sundance Film Festival had planned to return to Park City…
“With little pride and less hope, we begin the new year.” While those words could adequately characterize a more recent time period, in the case of…
As the 2021 Sundance Film Festival begins winding down, with several films getting picked up for distribution — including CODA, which set a new record for…
Premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Eight for Silver — the latest from director Sean Ellis (Anthropoid) — is an atmospheric thriller about a remote…
Jesus Christ, where do I even start? Prisoners of the Ghostland, Sion Sono’s first English-language feature (although there’s still a healthy amount of spoken Japanese) is…