Expanding her narrative scope but still retaining a level of aesthetic intimacy, Dee Rees’ Pariah follow-up Mudbound has the old-fashioned storytelling feel of ...
Drake Doremus' assured and incisive take on long-distance love, Like Crazy, won Sundance's top prize six years ago. If his latest sci-fi romance Equals did not ...
Humanity's most invaluable asset is our memory. It fuels our imagination, ignites conversations, and can unite us. It can also be distorted, reshaped, and forgo...
Resisting a deep racial analysis in the vein of I Am Not Your Negro, master satirist Jordan Peele’s horror comedy Get Out requires an audience ready to hoot, ho...
War, of course, is hell. We know this, but it stands that we should be reminded now and again. With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find be...
“I have loved you for the last time,” Sufjan Stevens sings in his original song “Visions of Gideon” in Call Me By Your Name. It’s a moment of both bittersweet h...
The road to a respectable life is a demanding one for Menashe. He barely makes enough money as a grocery clerk to pay the rent of his small apartment. He is shu...
It's commonplace for a fan to say of an actor or actress they like: "I would watch him or her in anything." The Hero, written and directed by Brett Haley, makes...
One of the more emotionally taxing features to earn the classification of “midnight movie” -- at least in this year’s Sundance program -- fearless writer-direct...
Playwright, author, screenwriter, and director Helene Hegemann has said (through her publisher) that, "There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authent...
