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‘Minari’ & ‘Boys State’ Triumph With Sundance Film Festival’s Top Prizes

February 1, 2020 11:33 pm

You can justifiably argue that it was a weaker than normal crop of films at this year's 2020 Sundance Film Festival, but the two top jury prize winners were the exceptions. During a non-streamed for the first...

‘Tesla’: Ethan Hawke Stars In This Inventive Biopic That Doesn’t Quite Generate Sparks [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

February 1, 2020 8:40 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

"No sparks," says a taciturn Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke), showing the prototype of his revolutionary induction motor to potential investors. "No sparks?" they harrumph through mutton-chop whiskers in wood-panel...

‘Falling’: Viggo Mortensen’s Directorial Debut Is An Exhausting Mess [Sundance Review]

Robert Daniels

February 1, 2020 1:36 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

In 1984, Viggo Mortensen debuted as a Lieutenant in a George Washington miniseries. Since then, he’s portrayed a once and future king in the Tolkein universe, a father navigating the apocalypse, a Russian hitm...

‘His House’: Timely Movie About Refugees In England Will Scare You Out Of Your Mind [Sundance Review]

Rafael Motamayor

January 31, 2020 11:44 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

When horror works best, it extrapolates very specific human worries and anxieties, and magnifies and mutates them into universal fears that anyone can understand and recoil in terror from. Spin some timely,&nb...

Romola Garai’s Horror Debut ‘Amulet’ (Mostly) Works Like A Charm [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

January 31, 2020 10:19 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

There is more than a touch of 'Buffy' Season 6 in the way Romola Garai's Midnight-dwelling directorial debut, "Amulet," finally shakes down — and, I shouldn't have to say, that's a compliment. The much-maligne...

‘Us Kids’: Meet The Gen Z Activists Fighting For Gun Reform In America [Sundance Review]

Jonathan Christian

January 30, 2020 3:00 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Is it still shocking to wake up to news stories about mass shootings in the United States in the year 2020? Truthfully, there’s not a clear-cut answer to that question. If one answers yes, the response solidif...

Josephine Decker Discusses ‘Shirley’ & Its Real-Life Literary Inspiration [Sundance Interview]

Tomris Laffly

January 30, 2020 1:03 pm

Festivals, Interviews, News

“I feel like the movies this year are better than they’ve ever been,” says “Madeline’s Madeline” writer-director Josephine Decker about this year’s Sundance fare, before settling into a conversation about her ...

‘Sergio’: Wagner Moura & Ana De Armas Elevate An Otherwise Messy, Sluggish Biopic [Sundance Review]

Robert Daniels

January 29, 2020 11:23 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

On 19 August 2003, a car bomb exploded outside the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad. As a result, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Sérgio Vieira de Mello and Gil Loescher were pinned under tons of r...

‘The Nowhere Inn’: St. Vincent & Carrie Brownstein Flirt With Self-Awareness In This Mock Rock Doc [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

January 29, 2020 10:37 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

"I'm not for everybody," says Annie Clark, the artist also known as St. Vincent -- though not to the limo driver who, at the beginning of Bill Benz's metafictional mockumentary "The Nowhere Inn," is interrogat...

‘Lost Girls’: Harrowing True Crime Drama With A Powerhouse Amy Ryan Still Doesn’t Fully Satisfy [Sundance Review]

Jason Bailey

January 29, 2020 10:31 am

News

Liz Garbus’ “Lost Girls” shares a subtitle with the Robert Kolker book it’s based on: “An Unsolved American Mystery.” The mystery in question is that of the Long Island serial killer, who m...

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