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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Actors put themselves in others’ skins -- or they put others’ heads inside their own. Television journalists adopt a persona and try to deliver important inform...
Performance and recreation have a greater presence in documentaries at this year’s Sundance than in many past. Pieter-Jan De Pue's The Land of the Enlightened, ...
Notes on Blindness is the kind of documentary that aims to be formally distinct -- something I wish was standard for the art. The film does more than simply tel...
The cinema of Kelly Reichardt lives in quiet, tender observations with deeply rooted characters and location. Even when adding a thriller element as with her la...
