Sundance Review: ‘892’John Boyega And Michael K. Williams Send A Message In Clinical But...
It's a story as old as this country's existence. A soldier returns home from combat and finds that there's nothing waiting for him. He...
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,...
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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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,...