AwardsWatch - sundance review

Sundance Review: ‘Homeroom’ shows us the kids are all right

Clint Worthington January 30, 2021

2020 was hard on a lot of people, but I feel for youth (especially Black and Brown youth) the most. Not only did the COVID-19... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘John and the Hole’ is emptier than it first appears

Clint Worthington January 30, 2021

At first glance, the concept for Pascual Sisto’s debut feature John and the Hole is delightfully devious: a young 13-year-old boy named John (Charlie Shotwell)... Read More

Sundance Review: Jerrod Carmichael’s ‘On the Count of Three’ is a triggering yet quirky journey of suicidal tendencies

Catherine Springer January 30, 2021

It’s not every day you see a movie about a suicide pact. No matter how you look at it, if a suicide pact is the... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘Flee’ is a refugee tale unlike any you have ever seen before

Catherine Springer January 29, 2021

No matter what kind of entertainment an artist pursues, they are always in search of a story and the best way to tell it. In... Read More

Sundance Review: Hand-drawn fantasy adventure ‘Cryptozoo’ soaks you in psychedelia

Clint Worthington January 29, 2021

The best way I can think to describe My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea cartoonist Dash Shaw’s Cryptozoo, the product of years of... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘Human Factors’ is a slick and engrossing whodunit

Murtada Elfadl January 29, 2021

At the beginning of Human Factors you settle in thinking it will be your standard home invasion thriller. Albeit a good one, shot and directed... Read More

Sundance Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Minari’ is a poetic and heartfelt masterwork

Clint Worthington February 1, 2020

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

Clint Worthington January 29, 2020

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

Clint Worthington January 29, 2020

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

Valerie Complex January 29, 2020

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