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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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...
Review: ‘Belle’Mamoru Hosoda's High-Tech 'Beauty And The Beast' Is A Visual Stunner That Lacks...
Acclaimed animation filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda returns to a pet theme, the duality within each of us, in his breathtaking new film, Belle. Dazzling visually...
Review: ‘Scream’Nostalgia Cuts Deeper Than Ghostface's Blade In Self-Aware Horror "Requel"
The makers of Scream think they're so clever. It's not exactly a sequel or a reboot of the groundbreaking 1996 horror, it's something else...a...
Review: ‘Italian Studies’Vanessa Kirby Is Lost With No Memory In Adam Leon's Mesmerizing Journey...
Although he's only made three features in about a decade, the films of Adam Leon have been easily identifiable up to this point. 2012's...