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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…
Golden Globe winner Robin Wright is no stranger to stepping behind the camera, having directed multiple episodes of the critically acclaimed Netflix series House of Cards,…
While mostly known for its dramatic selections, the Sundance Film Festival has played host to some stellar horror entries, particularly in recent years with standouts like…
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival is in full swing, with the (mostly) digital presentation already generating plenty of buzz for a number of titles. We’ll continue…
The coming of age drama is a tried-and-true indie staple, one whose cookie-cutter character archetypes and predictable story beats can often feel like the equivalent of…
The communal experience has always felt like one of the most vital ingredients of film festivals: sitting in a room full of strangers, waiting to embark…
Usually by this time of year, I’m making last-minute preparations for my annual trip to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. But with the…
A dark comedy to be sure, Promising Young Woman tells the story of a woman who turns the tables on men who try to take advantage…
One of the many questions that came out from the tragic events surrounding 9/11 is “what is a life worth?” That was the question attorney Kenneth…
Sundance Film Festival 2020, emanating from snowy Park City, Utah, provided the widest variety films for this year’s adventures. I was able to see fifteen of the…
Three years ago, Dees Rees wowed audiences at the Sundance Film Festival with Mudbound, a haunting examination of racial and familial relations in the 1940s Deep…
Adrift in the complacency of long-term marriage, Pete (Will Ferrell) and Billie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) embark on a vacation to an upscale European ski resort with their…
Once upon a time, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a med school student at the top of her class, but dropped out after a mysterious event and…
We’re just over a month away from the 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, scheduled to take place in Park City, UT from January 23rd…
My final day at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival was scheduled to be split between two movies at The Ray Theater in Park City, then a…
As Day Two of my Sundance adventure started off, promptly at nine in the a.m., I’m not sure I could have predicted the variety my four…
Many of us can recall someone older (and allegedly wiser) telling us that our teenage years would be the best of our lives, and that nothing…
My second adventure at the Sundance Film Festival, held in beautiful Park City, Utah, was a near-perfect film viewing trip. With over 100 films making their various…
Stieg Larsson may not quite be a household name, but anyone privileged enough to have read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will certainly recognize the…
One of the things that I loved about Sundance, and that really makes it unique, is that there are so many films across so many genres…
Based on the Hillary Jordan novel of the same name, Mudbound tells the story of a black family in the Deep South of the 1940s whose lives…
Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours marks the writer-director’s third trip to the Sundance Film Festival, and this 14th-century comedy based – just barely – on Giovanni Boccaccio’s The…
Premiering in the Midnight category at Sundance, Damien Power’s feature-length debut Killing Ground spins a pair of stories about ill-fated camping trips in the Australian wilderness. Unflinching…
After a four-year stint as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Jessica Williams brings her comedic sensibilities to the big screen as the title character in the Sundance…
When we first meet Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza), she’s sitting in her car scrolling through an Instagram feed of someone’s wedding, sobbing uncontrollably as she “likes” every…
“Everything is stupid,” 13-year-old Dayveon Buckingham (Devin Blackmon) tells himself as he rides his bicycle along the tree-lined roads of his rural Arkansas town, and it’s…
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday, January 19, and once again I’ll be returning to Park City for opening weekend. I had a great experience…
[Editor’s Note: With Swiss Army Man opening in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, we’re running our original Sundance review again]
Back in 2013, writer and director Matt Johnson turned heads at the Slamdance Film Festival with his feature-length debut, The Dirties, which followed a pair of…
On Sunday night, my first trip to the Sundance Film Festival came to an end with the world premiere of Yoga Hosers, the second installment of…
One of my favorite selections from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival was Sleight, director JD Dillard’s crowd-pleasing tale about a young street magician (Jacob Latimore) that…