Sundance Film Festival
‘The Incomer’ Review: Quaint and Heartwarming Scottish Isle Fable Earns Its Heartwarming Finale
[ad_1] When they aren’t serving as a majestic backdrop to searing accounts of personal recovery (like “The Outrun”) or horror-thrillers like a page-turning Alice Feeney novel, remote isles tend to...
‘Fing!’ Review: Roald Dahl Meets E.T. in Jeffrey Walker’s Classical Tale of a Problem Child and Her Lovable Creature
[ad_1] In “Fing!,” Jeffrey Walker’s whimsical thing of wonder, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher and Maureen Meek (Blake Harrison and Mia Wasikowska) couldn’t have been more aptly christened with that quirky...
MetFilm Boards Sundance Awards Winner ‘To Hold a Mountain’ for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] MetFilm Sales has acquired international sales rights to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s feature documentary “To Hold a Mountain,” which recently received its world premiere at the Sundance Film...
‘Barbara Forever’ Review: Filmmaker Brydie O’Connor Channels the Radical Queer Spirit of Barbara Hammer
[ad_1] Filmmaker Brydie O’Connor gives herself a rather difficult task with “Barbara Forever.” She sets out to document the life and career of iconic lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer in the...
‘See You When I See You’ Review: Cooper Raiff Deals With His Sister’s Death in a Too-Familiar Traumedy From Director Jay Duplass
[ad_1] In 2017, “The Big Sick” was the big sale of the Sundance Film Festival (beaten one week later by “Mudbound”). Those were the days when streamers were spending big...
‘Bedford Park’ Review: Two Children of Korean Immigrants Make an Unlikely Connection in Touching but Slightly Contrived Drama
[ad_1] As the “Rocky” score soars from the car stereo, Eli (Son Sukku) and Audrey (Moon Choi) are having two completely different experiences while in the same vehicle. He’s elated,...
‘The Brittney Griner Story’ Review: The Basketball Great Still Rises
[ad_1] The use of close-circuit video footage in a film has a way of suggesting a crime. The images from a ceiling surveillance camera of the basketball star Brittney Griner...
Sundance on ICE: How the Spirit of Robert Redford Shined Through a Chilling Political Moment
[ad_1] “There’s no room in our society for discrimination. None. I think it’s un-American.” In 2013, Robert Redford stood before a group of his fellow Utahns and urged them to...
‘How to Divorce During the War’ Review: A Droll, Perceptive Look at Handling Personal Crises Amid Political Ones
[ad_1] On the face of it, for a comfortable middle-class couple in Lithuania, getting divorced has absolutely nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. Why would it? But when...
The 13 Best Movies of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival
[ad_1] The Sundance Film Festival’s last edition in Park City offered a bittersweet chance to take stock of how much the independent film world has changed. There are ways that...
‘If I Go Will They Miss Me’ Review: Talent-to-Watch Walter Thompson-Hernández Weaves a Lyrical Portrait of a Boy on the Brink of Flight
[ad_1] Even the most inspirational films about growing up in the inner-city have a tendency to look down on their subjects, portraying them as characters to be rescued or redeemed....
