Sundance 2019 Archives - Page 6 of 9

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Annette Bening & Adam Driver Power Slightly Too Dense Drama ‘The Report’ [Sundance Review]

January 27, 2019 6:23 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

PARK CITY - Thanks to almost non-stop political upheaval and 3-hour news cycles, some of the biggest stories of the century haven't gotten their proper due. One of those moments was the 2012 release of the Sena...

‘Monos’: Guerillas At The Edge Of The World [Sundance Review]

Joe Blessing

January 27, 2019 1:15 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

For some, it’s a dream, for others a nightmare, but from “Lord of the Flies” to “Survivor,” people never get tired of wondering what life would be as free of the constraints of civilization. It’s an especially ...

‘The Wolf Hour’: Naomi Watts Gives A Striking Raw Nerve Performance [Sundance Review]

Jason Bailey

January 27, 2019 12:25 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“The Wolf Hour” begins with a big, tight close-up of Naomi Watts’ face, and proceeds with the same sense of scrutiny. She’s in every scene of this character study— in nearly every shot, in fact—and delivers a p...

Wounds: Dakota Johnson & Armie Hammer Do Psychodrama Horror For The ‘Under The Shadow’ Director [Sundance Review]

Jason Bailey

January 27, 2019 10:05 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Babak Anvari’s “Wounds” is a movie that includes gaping injuries, rearranging heads, and thousands of cockroaches, but you come away with the distinct impression the filmmaker just wanted to make a film about a...

‘Shooting The Mafia’: A Photographer Takes On The Sicilian Mob [Sundance Review]

Ted Pillow

January 27, 2019 9:00 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

“Shooting the Mafia” is the latest in a career’s worth of socially conscious, politically charged documentaries from director Kim Longinotto. Having previously explored issues ranging from sex trafficking (“Dre...

‘The Disappearance of My Mother’: An Admirable, But Aimless Documentary That Says Too Little With Too Much [Sundance Review]

Jonathan Christian

January 27, 2019 8:54 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

One day, you and everyone you have ever loved will die. As painful as this idea is to ponder upon at times, it remains true, obviously. Time moves in one direction and holds no partiality to anyone. Have you ev...

Emma Thompson Shines In Commercially Friendly ‘Late Night’ [Sundance Review]

Gregory Ellwood

January 27, 2019 3:46 am

Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

PARK CITY - The biggest joy from Nisha Ganatra's "Late Night" is that it will remind the global moviegoing community we need more Emma Thompson in our lives. The 58-year-old actress hasn't had a leading role li...

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‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile’: Zac Efron Does Ted Bundy In A Phony, Glamorizing Serial Killer Drama [Sundance Review]

Rodrigo Perez

January 27, 2019 1:30 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Our cultural fascination and glamorization of killers, often male, over victims and survivors, always female, is nothing new especially when it comes to serial killers and our obsession with their merciless ind...

‘Premature’: The Passion And Pain Of First Love [Sundance Review]

Joe Blessing

January 26, 2019 10:29 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“Premature” captures a young woman who knows she’s on the precipice of immense change, is hungry for that change, but when it finally comes is still surprised, hurt, yet ultimately strengthened by it. The secon...

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‘The Last Black Man In San Francisco’ Is A Haunting Triumph [Sundance Review]

Gregory Ellwood

January 26, 2019 7:07 pm

Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

PARK CITY - Joe Talbot's "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" opens on a young black girl beaming with a smile that could launch a thousand stars at someone out of frame. As the camera pans back it reveals a m...

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