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...
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...