Month: January 2016

[Sundance Review] Little Men

Little Men could have been so much more if its perspective leaned towards the opposite direction. Why a story dealing heavily with gentrification and unfair lea...

[Review] Aferim!

Leave it to a Romanian director to make a movie that best expresses the dangers of the dyed-in-the-wool mindset of modern America. Culled partly from historical...

[Sundance Review] The Birth of a Nation

Directed, written, produced by, and starring Nate Parker, the Nat Turner biopic The Birth of a Nation is an unflinching and hopeful call to action where the hel...

[Sundance Review] Joshy

If the last few years were any indication, it's shocking to have no official Joe Swanberg feature at Sundance in 2016, but Joshy comes remarkably close -- albei...

[Sundance Review] Sing Street

Returning to Sundance after breaking out with his Oscar-winning, shoe-string romance musical Once, director John Carney is back on a victory tour of sorts with ...

[Sundance Review] Dark Night

In many ways, writer-director Tim Sutton's third feature, Dark Night, exists in the same world as his first two films, Pavilion and Memphis. As we follow a coll...

[Sundance Review] Indignation

After helping filmmakers such as Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, and Todd Solondz shape their careers, James Schamus has finally made the leap from producer to director w...