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Sundance Review: A House Made of Splinters is a Fraught Portrait of War-Torn Children

A handful of moments in Simon Lereng Wilmont’s documentary A House Made of Splinters made me feel I’d accepted an invitation best declined. One such instance i...

Sundance Review: Klondike is a White-Knuckle Look at Life During Wartime

Klondike is a funny title for this harrowing, at times absurdist Ukrainian war drama, set as conflict with Russia began to spike in 2014. Referring as it does ...

Sundance Review: Summering is a Ho-Hum, Directionless Coming-of-Age Drama

“What’s going on with our girls?” asks the emotionally drained mother of a tween girl in James Ponsoldt’s Summering. As any parent (or relative) of a pre-teen ...

Sundance Review: Hatching is a Horror Story for the Modern Family

Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) has the perfect family. The kind of family who would no doubt have made Adolf Hitler shed a single, wistful tear. It’s because of this...

Sundance Review: Call Jane is a Curiously Low-Stakes Abortion Drama

Call Jane is a competently made, well-acted historical drama that doesn't give its charged subject matter the stakes or urgency it needs. Loosely based on The ...

Sundance Review: FRESH is All Surface and No Substance

Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a single woman trying to make it out there in a world where dating apps lead to uncomfortable dinners with gross, openly sexist man-...

Sundance Review: Dual Stretches Its Premise to a Melancholic Plateau

Dual, Riley Stearns’ third feature following Faults and The Art of Self-Defense, establishes its endgame within the first five minutes. Opening on a split foot...

Sundance Review: The Cathedral is an Ambitious Recollection of a Fractured Family and Country

What makes the fabric of our upbringing? The memories we’ll reflect on after those years have passed are often not what we may hold onto in a moment filtered a...

Sundance Review: 2nd Chance Examines the Dubious Legacy of the Bullet-Proof Vest Inventor

It’s an eerie image. Richard Davis stands out in a field, wearing a kevlar vest, and points a pistol into his belly. Then he pulls the trigger, skips back a bi...

Sundance Review: Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Passionately Promotes the Female Gaze

Though the different eras of global feminist thought are known as "waves," which implies successive awakenings of liberation and critique, the film world takes...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

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Features

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Interviews

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Podcasts

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