Inside Out 2 Review: Pixar’s Lightly Entertaining Sequel Gets More Emotional
It’s been a difficult stretch for Pixar. In the near-decade since Inside Out became a creative and commercial hit, the animation powerhouse doubled down on a v...
Jake Kring-Schreifels
Saved! at 20: Director Brian Dannelly Reflects on His Teenage Christian Comedy and Plans for a Sequel
It might be too on-the-nose to call Saved! a minor miracle of a movie, but how else would you describe Brian Dannelly’s faith-centric satire? Since it was rele...
Sundance Review: Winner is a Whistle-Blowing Biopic Too Tongue-In-Cheek to Take Seriously
Ever since The Big Short, Adam McKay’s winking and sardonic explainer about the 2008 financial crisis, a redundant cottage industry of similar-minded criminal ...
Sundance Review: A Different Man Sets a Disfigured Sebastian Stan Into a Surrealist Identity Drama
There are a lot of ways A Different Man could go and a lot of things it could be. Aaron Schimberg’s uniquely uncomfortable, uncomfortably unique feature someti...
Sundance Review: Freaky Tales Is a Violent Intersection of ‘80s Oakland Underdogs Lacking Bite
Before the early-morning Sundance premiere of Freaky Tales, one of the festival’s programmers introduced the movie as an explosive, crazy ride that would ...
Sundance Review: Love Lies Bleeding Sets Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in a Pulpy Neo-Noir
Near the end of Love Lies Bleeding, someone eats a large black beetle. It happens in a moment of abrupt anger, and it’s bitten into so forcefully that it's as ...
Sundance Review: Look Into My Eyes Will Change Your Perception of Psychics
Ask enough people what they think about psychics and clairvoyants, and you’ll probably get eye-rolls. Whether referencing the storefront tarot readers or the m...
Sundance Review: Love Me Sets Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun in a Romance Charting Billions of Years
A cosmic love story that takes place over 13.7 billion years about a floating buoy and a satellite circling the earth, Love Me might best be described as a dom...
Sundance Review: Girls State Is a Separate But Unequal Sequel Doc
One of the biggest hits at Sundance and winner of the festival’s U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize in 2020, Boys State was a rare window into teenage politics ...
Sundance Review: Thelma Showcases June Squibb On the Run and Looking For Payback
At the beginning of Thelma––a loveable, low-stakes joyride from director Josh Margolin––the movie’s eponymous 93-year-old grandmother sits on the couch with he...
