Dispatch: Sundance Film Festival Shines in Sharp Comedies, Biographical Documentaries and an Irish Rap Trio
As our Sundance Film Festival coverage draws to a close, our critics reflect on the films that left the best impressions, from a touching documentary about the original Superman to […]
Dispatch: Sundance Film Festival Offers Warm Comedies, Moving Documentaries and More, Each Entertaining In Their Own Way
At the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, many of the movies feel like experiences one can’t have anywhere else. From a documentary featuring a legendary Saturday Night Live friendship to a […]
Dispatch: Sundance Film Festival Allows Filmmakers Space to Take Big Swings, For Better or Worse
As our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival continues, our critics encountered a few of the event’s less remarkable, or at least less memorable, offerings. Krazy House They can’t […]
Dispatch: At Sundance Film Festival, Two Films Don’t Go Quite Far Enough in their Respective Subject Matters
Our reviews of Sundance Film Festival official selections continue; follow all of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The American Society of Magical Negroes Full of compelling ideas […]
Dispatch: Sentimental Stories and a Powerful Saoirse Ronan Performance at Sundance Film Festival
Our latest Sundance Film Festival reviews continue; read all our coverage of the 2024 Sundance film Festival now. Ghostlight Once of the most heartfelt (yet not overly sentimental) films at […]
Sundance Review: Female Friendship and Film Noir Combine in a Savage, Atmospheric Eileen
One of the higher-profile works at Sundance this year (at least in terms of star power) was director William Oldroyd’s (Lady Macbeth) noir-ish tale of a female friendship gone horribly […]
Sundance Review: Fair Play Explores Volatile Gender Dynamics at Work and at Home
Rarely does a first-time director launch out of the gate with as much force and conviction as writer-director Chloe Domont does with Fair Play, a work that examines the power […]
Sundance Review: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie Shares the Actor’s Triumphs, Struggles and Sense of Humor
My only significant complaint about director Davis Guggenheim’s (An Inconvenient Truth, He Named Me Malala) Michael J. Fox documentary STILL is that it isn’t long enough. The film spends ample […]
Sundance Review: Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) Chronicles Iconic Album Covers and the Studio That Designed Them
From master photographer and Control director Anton Corbijn comes his documentary debut, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis). The film is set in the days when album-oriented rock music […]
Sundance Review: Fairyland Explores a Father-Daughter Relationship During Turbulent, Tragic 1980s San Francisco
From producer Sofia Coppola and first-time feature writer/director Andrew Durham, Fairyland follows the true-life story of young Alysia, growing up in the 1970s with her single father Steve (Scoot McNairy), […]
Sundance Review: Gael Garcia Bernal Shines as a History-Making Luchador in Cassandro
If director Roger Ross Williams’s (Life, Animated) latest work, Cassandro, had been released last year, I firmly believe that its star, Gael Garcia Bernal would have easily snagged best acting […]
Sundance Review: From Child Model to Activist and Survivor, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields Chronicles Years in the Spotlight
At times wildly uncomfortable and at others supremely empowering, director Lana Wilson’s (Miss Americana) new documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields takes a look at the entirety of Shields’ life and […]