Sundance 2025 Reviews: ‘Omaha,’ ‘Plainclothes,’ ‘Sorry, Baby,’ ‘Twinless’
In my first dispatch for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, I look at films from mostly first time feature directors dealing with the fallout of... Read More
Film Reviews
‘Bunnylovr’ Review: Not Even the Songs of Charli XCX Can Save This Aimless Rabbit’s Tale [C] – Sundance Film Festival
When her most insistent client John (Austin Amelio, AMC’s The Walking Dead) asks what sort of things she likes to do, Bunnylovr’s cam girl protagonist... Read More
‘Brides’ Review: Innocence is Lost as Two Girls Fall Prey to Extremism in Nadia Hall’s Empathetic Story [B] – Sundance Film Festival
When you don’t feel accepted or understood at home or in the world outside of it, where can you go? In Brides, two teenage girls... Read More
‘Train Dreams’ Review: Joel Edgerton Stars in a Moving Examination of Life’s Fleeting, Stunning Nature [A] – Sundance Film Festival
Days spent in the lush green forests of the Pacific Northwest, a child’s giggles bubbling up by a stream, a warm drink shared with a... Read More
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: James Griffiths’s Oddball Charmer Has a Song in its Heart [A] – Sundance Film Festival
There is something satisfying and sweet about watching a diva navigate uncomfortable circumstances that slowly melt their icy heart. This is the story of The... Read More
‘LUZ’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Immerses Herself in the Style Over Substance of Flora Lau’s Virtual Reality [B-] – Sundance Film Festival
Remember in the 2010s when serious auteurs were trying their hands at 3D filmmaking? There were Oscar winners like Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, Martin... Read More
‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner Charm in Absurdist Tale of Love in the Time of the Iraq War [B] – Sundance Film Festival
Atropia exists somewhere between reality and fiction, between earnest emotion and absurdity. This title is also the name of the immersive training ground at the... Read More
‘The Wedding Banquet’ Review: Andrew Ahn Finds Fun and Heart in Frothy Reboot of the Gay Classic [B+] – Sundance Film Festival
It’s hard to remake a film that means so much to people, but Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet is a charming and poignant update to... Read More
‘Bubble & Squeak’ Review: A Wes Anderson Wannabe That Tastes Like Spoiled Cabbages [D] – Sundance Film Festival
Do you find cabbages inherently hilarious? Yes, everyone likes the cabbage merchant running gag in Avatar: The Last Airbender (say it with me: “MY CABBAGES!”),... Read More
‘Opus’ Review: Ayo Edebiri Fights the Evils of Access Journalism in Frustrating Satirical Thriller That’s More Parvum Than Magnum [C+] – Sundance Film Festival
Anyone who’s paid attention to the last two decades can understand how celebrity worship has warped the cultural zeitgeist. One such way is journalism, where... Read More
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