‘Minari,’ ’40-Year Old Version,’ ‘Boys State’ top 2020 Sundance Film Festival winners
Minari, Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical tale of his upbringing in rural Arkansas, has won the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, it was announced... Read More
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One of the joys of minari, mischievous grandmother Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn) tells her equally impish 7-year-old grandson David (Alan Kim), is that the Korean herb... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘The Last Shift’ is a contrived, entry level effort
This may be my first year actually attending the Sundance Film Festival, but I know the hallmarks of the “Sundance film” when I see one.... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘The Nest’ is an astounding showcase for Carrie Coon
Sean Durkin returns nine years after Martha Marcy May Marlene with a tension-filled slow burn “What do you do for a living?” a cab driver... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘Miss Juneteenth’ avoids tropes to find truth in the Black experience
Nicole Beharie establishes herself as one of Hollywood’s most underrated talents with her strong and heartfelt performance as Turquoise Jones in Channing Godfrey Peoples first... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’ wants to get rid of toxic in community
Revenge is a dish served ice cold in Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut film premiering at Sundance 2020, Promising Young Woman. This film is more than... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ plays like an awards season cast-off
Not even half a dozen Oscar winners and nominees can save a story that manages to be both formulaic and convoluted “It’s just a hard... Read More
Sundance Review: Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Wendy’ finds a director unable to grow up
Eight years ago, writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival like lighting in a bottle. Beats of the Southern Wild... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘Downhill’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell soar in high altitude comedy
Searchlight Pictures is lucky the first movie released under their new name exceeds expectations because a title like Downhill is ripe for puns. Directors Nat... Read More
Sundance Review: Miranda July’s ‘Kajillionaire’ exists between the mundane and the profound
If you want to understand Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) in Miranda July’s new film Kajillionaire, you have to know that July’s parents... Read More
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