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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sundance Review: Jonathan Majors Transforms Physically and Emotionally for Intense, Impressive Magazine Dreams
Actor Jonathan Majors is about to have a substantial year. In addition to beginning his reign of multiverse-jumping terror as…
Sundance Review: Rock Legend Gets Documentary Treatment in Little Richard: I Am Everything
The life of Richard Wayne Penniman (aka Little Richard) is one of almost constant, lifelong contradictions, mostly having to do…
Sundance Review: Fragile Yet Fierce, Daisy Ridley Delivers Something Moving in Sometimes I Think About Dying
When somebody describes a film as a “Sundance movie,” my mind tends to envision works like director Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes…
Sundance Review: birth/rebirth Examines Medical Ethics, Mourning and More in Interesting, Scary and Heartfelt Ways
My favorite film from the Midnight selections at Sundance this year is the feature debut of director/co-writer Laura Moss (who…
Sundance Review: The Pod Generation Features an Interesting Concept That’s Not Fully Gestated
A big swing and a miss comes courtesy of writer/director Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls, 2015’s Madame Bovary) in The Pod…
