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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…
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…
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…
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 same…
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 to acquire quality…
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, moving his…
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 approaching the…
“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 lend their voices…
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 their separation…
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 it can now feel…
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. But in Walter…
I encountered a version of this phenomenon on the first morning of my first Sundance. Trying to find my way around festival headquarters, I ran into a colleague from Variety, my employer…
The family drama “Take Me Home” is a not an easy watch and (arguably harder than it needs to be). Yet, how could a film that takes such an intimate look at the fraying healthcare net…
Fast weight-loss methods have never been easier or more readily available, but they come at a cost — and for the young, dangerously experimenting protagonist of “Saccharine,” that’s higher…
After an old-fashion, multi-day bidding war, Olivia Wilde‘s Sundance darling “The Invite” has sold to A24. A24 and Focus Features were locked in a tense fight for rights to the…
A melancholic affection for New York City permeates writer-director Noah Segan’s nostalgia-powered “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” a minor-key character study that quietly mourns…
In Dawn Porter’s powerful documentary “When A Witness Recants,” Ta-Nehisi Coates presents — both as an executive producer and occasional subject — a stirring tale of American injustice,…
“Give Me the Ball!,” the title of Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff’s ferociously inspirational and entertaining documentary about Billie Jean King, refers to something that the fabled tennis…
Ethan Hawke is having a moment, the way fellow Newton boy Matthew McConaughey did a few years back. Onscreen since age 14 — yet taken for granted far too long — the undeniable talent…
Neon, the indie label behind “Parasite” and “Anora,” is inking one of the first deals of this year’s Sundance Film Festival and buying “Leviticus,” a buzzy horror film about conversion…
There are several key reasons why a movie about a school shooting feels right at home at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s not a subject that a major studio is likely to touch, so it’s more…
While presented as a trio of interconnected stories, “In the Blink of an Eye,” the latest film from “WALL-E” and “John Carter” director Andrew Stanton, plays more like three disparate TV…
A24 and Focus Features are locked in a heated bidding war for Olivia Wilde‘s new movie “The Invite,” which debuted to raves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. After Saturday night’s…
When Vietnam veteran Ed Emanuel wrote the memoir “Soul Patrol” (2003), the gesture could have been likened to that of a marooned man sending out a message in a bottle. Although he’s had a…
