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‘The Dating Game’ Review: Violet Du Feng’s Relationship Doc Struggles with the Balance of Political and Personal [C] – Sundance Film Festival

Alejandra Martinez February 1, 2025

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’

Erik Anderson January 31, 2025

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

Reuben Baron January 31, 2025

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

Alejandra Martinez January 31, 2025

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

2025 Sundance Film Festival Winners: ‘Atropia,’ ‘Twinless,’ Sorry, Baby’ Earn Top Awards

Erik Anderson January 31, 2025

Today, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival awards were presented at a ceremony for the jury and audience award–winning films at The Ray Theatre in Park... Read More

‘Train Dreams’ Review: Joel Edgerton Stars in a Moving Examination of Life’s Fleeting, Stunning Nature [A] – Sundance Film Festival

Alejandra Martinez January 30, 2025

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

Karen Peterson January 30, 2025

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

Reuben Baron January 30, 2025

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

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 83 – ‘Carnal Knowledge’ (Mike Nichols, 1971) with Special Guest Andrew Carden

Ryan McQuade January 30, 2025

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... 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

Alejandra Martinez January 30, 2025

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

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