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Sundance Review: ‘To the Stars’ is a Sensitively-Told Tale of Repression in the Midwest

If today’s political landscape is any indication, much of the world is living in a conservative past, seething with disgust for another perspective they fail to...

Sundance Review: ‘Late Night’ Has the Laughs, Lacks the Focus

For the first bit of Late Night, directed by Nisha Ganatra and written by Mindy Kaling, everything's working and working well. What's introduced as the central ...

Sundance Review: ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ is a Jaw-Dropping Exposé of the Horrors of Colonialism

In 1961, Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in Africa under mysterious circumstances. Beginning as an investig...

Sundance Review: ‘Monos’ is a Brutal, Unflinching Immersion into the Guerrilla Warfare of Latin America

There’s a preternatural feel to the opening sequences of Monos, the brutal, unflinching third film from Colombian-Ecuadorian filmmaker Alejandro Landes (Cocaler...

Sundance Review: ‘Dirty God’ Shows the Aftermath of a Nightmare

How do you cope after an attack that leaves you visibly scarred for the rest of your life? This is the difficult question that director Sacha Polak looks to del...

Sundance Review: ‘Troop Zero’ Feels Created by a Random Sundance Movie Generator

As if created in a random Sundance movie generator, Troop Zero has quirkiness for days, talented actors playing broadly comedic caricatures, a predictable three...

Sundance Review: ‘Adam’ is a Frustrating, Empathetic Immersion into an Evolving LGBTQ Community

There’s a specific kind of warm, crowd-pleasing aesthetic–often in the coming-of-age subgenre–that seems to find a home among the Sundance programming more so t...

Sundance Review: ‘Honey Boy’ Finds Shia LaBeouf Earnestly Confronting His Traumatic Upbringing

Following sci-fi sound effects over the opening credits on a black screen, Honey Boy begins with a hard cut on the face of Lucas Hedges as he’s pulled back on a...

Sundance Review: ‘Paddleton’ Wallows In Sadness, Finds Laughs in Spots

Death stalks every moment of Paddleton, the sophomore directorial effort from Alex Lehmann, who co-writes this script with Mark Duplass, his star here and the c...

Sundance Review: ‘Divine Love’ is a Strange, Alluring Exploration of Faith in the Near-Future

Last year’s Sundance Film Festival opened with Tamara Jenkins’s Private Life, a thoughtful, witty drama exploring the struggles of infertility faced by a couple...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

Promised Sky Review: A Heartbreaking Drama That Hits Home

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Features

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Interviews

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Podcasts

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