Reviews

[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] The East

Serving as an engaging antithesis to last year’s Sound of My Voice (a cryptic piece of filmmaking that left a myriad of questions unanswered), Zal Batmanglij’s ...

[Sundance Review] Escape From Tomorrow

If one were to ask what film is generating the most buzz at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the answer would most likely be the audacious and provocative Es...

[Review] Blancanieves

It appears Pablo Berger's silent, black and white interpretation of the Brothers' Grimm's Snow White has become a casualty of its subject's overexposure outside...

[Sundance Review] The Way, Way Back

The Way, Way Back, written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, is the kind of independent film the Sundance Film Festival has become synonymous with: a wide...

[Sundance Review] We Are What We Are

Writer/Director Jim Mickle is no stranger to indie horror films, having had a fairly successful run with his 2010 vampire thriller Stakeland. That same year, an...

[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] Before Midnight

Spanning the course of 18 years, Richard Linklater's incomparable Before trilogy establishes itself as one of - if not the - great American chronicles of our ti...

[Review] Knife Fight

With five nominations and two wins from the Academy Awards for documentary work, director Bill Guttentag set his sights on the world of political strategists wi...