Sundance Review: ‘Am I OK?’Dakota Johnson Finds Humor And Heart In Tig Notaro And...
The "coming out" film is a tried-and-true staple, typically focused on teens who are just beginning to explore their sexual identity. That might be...
Sundance Review: ‘Emily The Criminal’Aubrey Plaza Scams The System In Tense, Riveting Working Class...
Aubrey Plaza isn't who I would think of as a dangerous, working class Scarface, but after John Patton Ford's effectively tense Emily the Criminal,...
Review: ‘Borrego’Lucy Hale Stars In A Drug Drama That Misses Every Point
In Borrego, Lucy Hale plays a botanist mourning her sister’s death and studying an invasive plant species. After witnessing a plane crash at dusk...
Sundance Review: ‘Resurrection’Rebecca Hall And Tim Roth Play Head Games In Andrew Semans' Grotesquely...
There's something about the way Margaret (Rebecca Hall) offers advice to a naive co-worker about her abusive boyfriend. It sounds authoritative, too much so,...
Sundance Review: ‘My Old School’Director Jono McLeod Enlists Alan Cumming To Reflect On A...
Though many people would like to forget their high school years, Scottish filmmaker Jono McLeod can’t. In his new documentary My Old School, which...
Sundance Review: ‘Palm Trees And Power Lines’Newcomer Lily McInerny Delivers A Heartbreakingly Raw Performance...
A 17-year-old girl meets an older man and falls in love. In any other movie, a relationship like that is romanticized. Not in Jamie...
Review: ‘The Laureate’A Beautiful And Hazy Art Deco Romance Drama Right Out Of The...
A Laureate is a person who is honored with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual achievement and this film, which is written and...
Sundance Review: ‘Brian And Charles’Robot Is Man's Best Friend In Jim Archer's Sweet And...
Brian is a lonely inventor living by himself in a Welsh valley, longing for a companion. In the meantime, he has a film crew...
Sundance Review: ‘Alice’Blaxploitation Misfire Sets Keke Palmer On A Path For Vengeance
Long after slavery was abolished, Black people remained in a near-permanent state of servitude because of the laws, and culture, stacked against them. But...
Sundance Review: ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’Cooper Raiff And Dakota Johnson Get The Party Jumpin'...
There's a good chance people will be turned off by the gentle, nakedly earnest comedies by Cooper Raiff. A breakout award-winner at SXSW for...