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Sundance Review: Ben Wheatley’s Pandemic Horror Movie In the Earth Lands with a Thud

There is a stellar moment in Mark Harris’ stunning new biography Mike Nichols: A Life in which the director’s early 70s oddity The Day of the Dolphin is releas...

Sundance Review: Summer of Soul Miraculously Reclaims and Restores a Forgotten Harlem Music Festival

The biggest block party of 1969 took place over six weeks in central Harlem. Clustered together into the rocky confines of Mt. Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey P...

Shoah Trailer: One of the Greatest Documentaries of All-Time Gets First-Ever On Demand Release

A seminal documentary, and one of the most essential films of all time, IFC Films is bringing Claude Lanzmann’s magnum opus Shoah on demand for a whole new gen...

Sundance Review: In the Same Breath Surveys Governmental Corruption in Covid-19-Stricken China

Any newly-released film, book, or piece of media that begins its story in the latter months of 2019 is signifying something very clear: trouble like we’ve neve...

Sundance Review: Mother Schmuckers is an Irreverent Exercise in Provocation Without Pathos

In their debut feature film, directing duo Harpo and Lenny Guit craft a narrative unlike any other. Mother Schmuckers (Fils de Plouc in their native French) op...

Sundance Review: Playing With Sharks Showcases the Beauty of the Ocean’s Most Misunderstood Creatures

Sharks have been lurking in the depths of our cultural consciousness for decades now. From the fear that Jaws instilled in audiences in 1975 to the endless con...

Sundance Review: Strawberry Mansion is a Kaleidoscopic Reverie Bursting with Imagination

What if the government didn't strictly tax your paychecks and transactions, but your dreams as well? With their vibrant, imaginative, and genre-melding new fil...

Sundance Review: Pandemic Drama The Pink Cloud Disturbingly Reckons a Worst-Case Lockdown Scenario

Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud starts off with a disclaimer: “This film was written in 2017 and shot in 2019. Any resemblance to real life is purely coincidenta...

Sundance Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is a Moving Portrait of a Tragic, Unique Life Lived

In 1971, Björn Andrésen was the most beautiful boy in the world. In 2019, he’s the elder of a neopagan commune in rural Sweden, whose inability to commit suici...

Sundance Review: Cryptozoo is One of the Most Gorgeous Works of American Animation in Ages

The current state of American animated cinema is more than a little disappointing; Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, and more regurgitate the same formula and offer n...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

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Features

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Interviews

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