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Sundance Review: Taming the Garden is an Evergreen Look at Gratuitous Wealth

If you happen to maintain your own personal garden and feel stressed about the upkeep, look no further than Salomé Jashi’s visually striking observational docu...

Sundance Review: At the Ready Takes a Straightforward Look at Law Enforcement Education in a Texas High School

Following in the footsteps of last year’s Boys State, Maisie Crow’s At the Ready is another documentary about an education program in Texas that pushes young p...

Sundance Review: The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet Follows a Transient Journey in a Pandemic World

This year, because Sundance is a virtual festival operating in the midst of the coronavirus, there’s a tendency to label any depiction of isolation and mass hy...

Sundance Review: Coming Home in the Dark Presents an All-Night Joyride from Hell

In rural New Zealand, Hoaggie (Erik Thomson) rides in the passenger seat. His wife, Jill (Miriama McDowell), is driving and their sons Maika (Billy Paratene) a...

Sundance Review: Hawaiian Drama I Was a Simple Man Sedately Takes Death at its Word

One of the most succinct, yet heavily weighted lines of dialogue in cinema history is a three-syllable call to death: “Time to die," as Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batt...

Sion Sono on Briefly Dying, His Favorite Nicolas Cage Performance, and Prisoners of the Ghostland

The 57th directorial credit in his vast filmography, Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland premieres at this year’s Sundance before his 56th, Red Post on Esch...

Sundance Review: Fran Kranz’s Directorial Debut Mass Finds Understanding in the Unthinkable

Set in the meeting room of a modest Episcopalian church, two couples meet under tragic circumstances. For his directorial debut Mass, accomplished actor Fran K...

Sundance Review: Cusp Explores the Lives of Texas Teens with Intentional Aimlessness

There’s something very crass about Cusp, and almost all of that comes from its design. It’s aimless like its subjects, and it’s even more hopeless. Everyone wo...

Sundance Review: Prime Time is a Broadly Drawn Hostage Drama Lacking Tension

Pop culture, entertainment, hedonism—they’re all different sides to the same brain atrophy. Well, that’s how Sebastian (Bartosz Bielenia) sees it. He’s a 20-ye...

Sundance Review: Superior is a Delightfully Retro, Thin Drama Starring Real-Life Twins

Superior begins with a woman in a bright red jumpsuit sprinting away from a violent man, intercut with another woman, at home, frying an egg. It might not imme...

News

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

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

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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