‘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
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‘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
‘Predators’ Review: Engrossing Examination at How the Rise of True Crime Shows Revealed its Complicity [A] – Sundance Film Festival
If the phrase, “Hello, I’m Chris Hansen,” means anything to you, you are probably familiar with its source: To Catch A Predator. For the unfamiliar,... Read More
‘The Dating Game’ Review: Violet Du Feng’s Relationship Doc Struggles with the Balance of Political and Personal [C] – Sundance Film Festival
In The Dating Game, the latest documentary from Violet Du Feng (Hidden Letters, Nanking) the complications of modern-day romance are framed by a specific context:... Read More
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
‘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
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’