Sundance Review: ‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’Filmmaker Nina Menke's Uses Feminist Theory To Break-Down Just How Sexist...
Part filmed symposium and video essay, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is director Nina Menkes’ visual breakdown of just how pervasive the objectification of women is in...
Sundance Review: ‘Master’Regina Hall Deals With Racism In Academia In Mariama Diallo's Debut Horror
Being Black in America can be its own kind of horror story. That's why the genre is so perfectly suited to examinations of race,...
Sundance Review: ‘Sharp Stick’Lena Dunham's Return Film Is Orchestrated To Be Provocative, But Nothing...
Count me as one of those who hate-watched Girls. I have a fascination with Lena Dunham and the shallower-than-bathwater cast of white characters she...
Sundance Review: ‘Summering’James Ponsoldt Crafts A Well-Intentioned But Shallow Coming-Of-Age Film For Girls
I'm a huge fan of James Ponsoldt, and in a lot of ways he helped define the overall Sundance experience I've had over the...
Sundance Review: ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’Emma Thompson And Daryl McCormack Are A...
Somewhere in Britain, two strangers meet in a hotel room. One is a 55-year-old widow and former high school religious studies teacher named Nancy....
Sundance Review: ‘Dual’Karen Gillan Literally Battles Herself In Riley Stearns' Offbeat Double-Identity Thriller
It would almost be funny if it weren't so devastingtly depicted by The Art of Self-Defense director Riley Stearns. In Dual, Karen Gillan plays...
Sundance Review: ‘After Yang’Colin Farrell Digs Through A.I. Memories In Kogonada's Thoughtful Sci-Fi Drama
A futuristic sci-fi movie set in a world where artificial intelligence has become a dominant presence in everyday life. It doesn't sound like something...
Sundance Review: ‘Living’Bill Nighy And Director Oliver Hermanus Attempt To Recreate Akira Kurosawa's Masterpiece...
Bill Nighy quietly examines his purpose in Oliver Hermanus’ Living, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on Friday. Matching the pedigree of...
Sundance Review: ‘Call Jane’Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver Star In 'Carol' Writer's Abortion Drama
It’s safe to say almost every American has a position on Roe V. Wade. However, the history of events leading to the infamous Supreme...
Sundance Review: ‘Emergency’A Funny, Uneven, Scary Campus Satire Mixes Laughs With Racial Commentary
On the surface, Carey Williams' intense college comedy Emergency looks like it traffics in familiar genre lanes. A trio of dudes, all best buds,...