Jordan Raup

[Sundance Review] In a World…

Sundance Film Festival is a breeding ground for exciting, new talent, with many budding filmmakers first stepping foot into the short film arena. The latest exa...

[Sundance Review] The Kings of Summer

In the post-screening Q&A for the entertaining, free-spirited coming-of-age adventure The Kings of Summer, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts remarked how many co...

[Sundance Review] Hell Baby

With its title and talent, one can at least establish some expectations for the experience that is Hell Baby, the latest absurd, idiotic and mostly hilarious fi...

[Sundance Review] Lovelace

Hollywood has proved there are a multitude of ways to handle a biopic. One can go the outside-the-box route with something like Todd Haynes' look at Bob Dylan w...

[Sundance Review] Prince Avalanche

Despite the hilarious Pineapple Express, there's no denying David Gordon Green has been on a downward spiral with each new step into the world of studio comedy....

[Sundance Review] The Spectacular Now

Returning to Sundance Film Festival just one year after his overlooked drama Smashed, director James Ponsoldt shows a mature step forward with his coming-of-age...

[Sundance Review] Upstream Color

With expectations mounting as the years ticked by, those that have witnessed the intricately detailed and mind-bending time-travel film Primer have been patient...

[Sundance Review] Stoker

As we've learned time and time again, a foreign director's transition from their native country to Hollywood can often be a difficult road to traverse, with not...

Jordan Raup

Editor-in-Chief

Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.