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‘The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet’: A Visually Rich Exploration Of Economic Inequality [Sundance Review]

January 31, 2021 6:27 pm

Literally opening, as the title implies, with “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet,” Argentinian director Ana Katz’s melancholic rumination on the life of Sebastian (Daniel Katz, the filmmaker’s brother), a languish...

‘The Sparks Brothers’: Edgar Wright Transforms Ride Or Die Fandom Into A Moving Dedication To The Kinship Of Eccentric Visions [Sundance Review]

Rodrigo Perez

January 31, 2021 5:34 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

To call a portrait documentary an “affectionate tribute” to its lesser-known subject is usually redundant. That’s the whole point of adoring acknowledgment docs of this ilk— “shining a brighter spotlight” on ....

‘Prime Time’: A Hostage Flick Shrinks In The Spotlight [Sundance Review]

Robert Daniels

January 31, 2021 1:56 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“Prime Time,” initially, opens with a beguiling premise. It’s New Year’s Eve in Poland, and the world is mere hours from the year 2000, a new millennium. In a television station, amidst the glamorous bystander...

‘Glitch In The Matrix’: Rodney Ascher Makes A Computer-Haunted Doc About Those That Believe ‘The Matrix’ Is Real [Sundance Review]

Chris Barsanti

January 31, 2021 1:15 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Rodney Ascher’s computer-haunted documentary “A Glitch in the Matrix” is not the most insightful recent examination of boredom-born foggy Internet delusions. That honor likely goes to Arthur Jones’ antic “Feel...

Robin Wright Talks Her Directorial Debut ‘Land,’ Grief, Survival & Renewed Hopefulness [Sundance Interview]

Tomris Laffly

January 31, 2021 12:53 pm

Features, Interviews, News

After a renowned career of nearly four decades in both film and TV, actor Robin Wright makes a confident feature directorial debut with “Land,” screening this year as part of Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres...

‘Passing’: Rebecca Hall’s Debut Is A Delicate, Tension-Filled Acting Showcase [Sundance Review]

Robert Daniels

January 31, 2021 10:37 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

Irene (Tessa Thompson) rarely passes for white. She fears for her safety too much to do so. When she does, white people, from cab drivers to store clerks, treat her with deference. See, passing is an act by wh...

‘Mass’: An Impressively Depressing Four-Way Powerhouse, Until the Walls Close In [Sundance]

Jessica Kiang

January 30, 2021 8:28 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It's hard to say if the excoriating debut film written, produced, and directed by Fran Kranz, in being an extraordinarily depressing chamber piece dealing with the long-after fallout of a school shooting, is t...

‘I Was A Simple Man’: Hawaiian Ghost Story Recalls Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Earthly Dreamscapes [Sundance Review]

Carlos Aguilar

January 29, 2021 6:25 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Set on the trench that divides waking reality from the subconscious, director Christopher Makoto Yogi’s moody sophomore effort “I Was a Simple Man” achieves the narrative fluidity of dreams in a multigeneratio...

‘Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)’: Questlove’s New “Black Woodstock” Doc Is Superb [Sundance Review]

Andrew Crump

January 29, 2021 2:48 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“Black Woodstock doc,” reads the director’s clapperboard, the first image we see in the feature debut of drummer, DJ, music producer, journalist, podcaster, and wing enthusiast Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s sup...

‘Us Kids’ Trailer: New Doc Profiles A Resilient Youth Movement Telling America To Wake Up & Act

Andrew Hrip

October 27, 2020 4:49 pm

News, Trailers

“We call B.S.” This was the message from Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez and many of her peers. Tragically, not a whole lot changed in the two years since it was spoken. But hope c...

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