Joachim Trier’s festival favorite boasts a wonderful lead performance, but the filmmaker’s shallow understanding of her plight makes for an uneven viewing experience.
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To mark both Black History Month and Valentine’s season, this month’s catalogue of Miramax’s misdeeds looks back at their fumbled release of a low-budget Black romance.
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A legendary (but not often seen, at least in the U.S.) Spanish cult film finally makes its way to our screens, and it is a scorcher.
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Sundance may have cancelled its Park City presence, but our correspondent “attended” the festival via one of its several satellite screens.
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When the much-ballyhooed “Special Edition” hit theaters 25 years ago, it began an unfortunate tradition of erasing film history.
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The Sundance Film Festival has drawn to a close, and here are our mini-reviews of nine more festival favorites, including ‘Fire of Love,’ ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth,’ and ‘Sharp Stick.’
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We Asked a Guy* Who Really Was an LDS Missionary to Watch the LDS Missionary Documentary The Mission
Our own Eric D. Snider, once an LDS missionary, brings his experience and expertise to the Sundance LDS missionary documentary, ‘The Mission.’
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This 1928 feature was long considered one of Chaplin’s lesser works. But now it stands as his first great combination of comedy and pathos.
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A look at some of the festival’s darker offerings, including “Fresh,” “Master,” “Hatching,” “Resurrection,” and more.
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Years before they donned superhero suits, Christian Bale and Tom Holland were child actors anchoring very different stories of survival.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Warhunt,’ ‘They/Them/Us,’ ‘Lockdown,’ and more.
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Our first festival dispatch, featuring mini-reviews of ‘When You Finish Saving the World,’ ‘Dual,’ ‘892,’ and more.
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