‘See You When I See You’ Review: Jay Duplass’s Overly Careful Tale of Family Grief Remains at Arm’s Length [C+] | Sundance
Jay Duplass’s latest feature, See You When I See You, feels light-years removed from the shaggy, conversational looseness that once defined Mumblecore. Where Duplass’s early... Read More
Film Reviews
‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Review: Andrew Stanton’s Feature Film Return is an Epic, Triptych Timeline Stunner [A] | Sundance
Andrew Stanton’s career at Pixar once unfolded with the clean inevitability of a well-told parable. He directed A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo, and WALL•E—films that... Read More
‘Wicker’ Review: Olivia Colman Makes a Real Boy Out of Alexander Skarsgård in Fun, Bawdy Fable [B+] Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival has long been a place for emerging filmmakers to introduce themselves and their stories to friendly crowds who love quirky, weird... Read More
‘The Invite’ Review: Who’s Afraid of Olivia Wilde? [A] | Sundance
Romantic partnerships are rife with stories to tell and emotions to explore. This is why there are endless movies about them. People longing for love,... Read More
‘Send Help’ Review: Rachel McAdams Goes Into ‘Survivor’ Mode Against Bad Boss Dylan O’Brien [B+]
While Sam Raimi has helmed two films since 2009’s Drag Me to Hell, it’s hard to say the horror auteur’s signature filmmaking personality has been... Read More
‘The Gallerist’ Review: Art Imitates Death in Cathy Yan’s Stylized and Funny Sendup on Navel Gazing Art World [B+] | Sundance
The world of modern art is enigmatic and inaccessible to some, a way of life for others. Rotating exhibitions at museums of modern art may... Read More
‘Saccharine’ Review: Stop Relying on That Body-ody-ody Horror [C] | Sundance
What do you get when you mix generational trauma and health wellness and sexual identity and ghosts and cadavers and diet culture and binge eating... Read More
‘I Want Your Sex’ Review: Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde Get Natural and Habitual in Gregg Araki’s Surprisingly Insightful Dom-Com [B+] | Sundance
The moment Cooper Hoffman’s Elliot awakens with a bloody lip and wearing only a pink lacy bra and panties, it’s clear Gregg Araki’s new film... Read More
‘The Moment’ Review: Charli xcx is brat+ in Trappings of Fame Mock Doc [B] | Sundance
On Friday night at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah, Sundance attendees found themselves in the midst of an unplanned Charli xcx double feature.... Read More
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Review: Christophe Gans’s Belated Sequel Gets Lost in the Fog of Lackluster Video Game Movies [C-]
Fans of Silent Hill—legendary Japanese game developer Konami’s landmark psychological horror series (typically) about the terrors lurking within a quiet, Midwestern American hamlet—have had a... Read More
‘Anima’ Review: Sydney Chandler and Takehiro Hira Ground Brian Tetsuro Ivie’s Low-Fi Sci-Fi Road Movie [B+] SXSW 
Six Join 51st Residence of the Festival de Cannes, including Harry Lighton, Mansi Maheshwari, Oliver McGoldrick 
‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat’ Review: The Emmy-Nominated Hit Returns as an Hilarious Workplace Comedy [B+] 
‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Review: Cherish is the Word I Use to Describe Lisa Kudrow [A-]