Reviews

Sundance Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’ wants to get rid of toxic in community

Carey Mulligan stars as Cassie in director Emerald Fennell’s PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Courtesy of Focus Features) Revenge is a dish… Read More

January 28, 2020

Sundance Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ plays like an awards season cast-off

Anne Hathaway in THE LAST THING HE WANTED by Dee Rees (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) Not even half a dozen… Read More

January 28, 2020

Sundance Review: Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Wendy’ finds a director unable to grow up

Devin France in Wendy by Benh Zeitlin (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) Eight years ago, writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film… Read More

January 27, 2020

Sundance Review: ‘Downhill’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell soar in high altitude comedy

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrel in Downhill (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) Searchlight Pictures is lucky the first movie released under… Read More

January 27, 2020

Sundance Review: Miranda July’s ‘Kajillionaire’ exists between the mundane and the profound

Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger in Kajillionaire by Miranda July (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by… Read More

January 26, 2020

Sundance Review: Moss delivers a ferocious, electrifying performance in Josephine Decker’s ‘Shirley’

Elisabeth Moss and Odessa Young in SHIRLEY by Josephine Decker (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) Newcomer Odessa Young delivers a breakthrough… Read More

January 25, 2020

Review: ‘The Gentlemen’ is a gangster’s paradise

Michelle Dockery and Matthew McConaughey in THE GENTLEMEN (Photo Credit: Christopher Raphael) The Gentlemen is a highly stylized, well-written gangster romp that’s entertaining as hell.… Read More

January 25, 2020

Film Review: ‘Greed’ isn’t good

Isla Fisher, Steve Coogan and Asa Butterfield in GREED (Sony Pictures Classics) Despite jumping around genres with seemingly prolific ease, writer/director Michael Winterbottom… Read More

January 25, 2020

Sundance Review: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ is a haunting work that cuts right to the bone

Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) It’s been three years since writer/director… Read More

January 25, 2020

Sundance Review: Justin Simien’s ‘Bad Hair’ day

Yaani King Mondschein, Elle Lorraine, and Lena Waithe in Bad Hair by Justin Simien (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) At nine… Read More

January 24, 2020

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