The first virtual Sundance has drawn to a close, but we’ve got 15 more mini-reviews from this year’s line-up.
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Mike Cahill’s sci-fi-infused philosophical drama has some big ideas, but never pulls them together into a coherent narrative.
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A quick look at some of the odder titles of #Sundance2021, including “R#J,” “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” and “Cryptozoo.”
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John David Washington and Zendaya do their best, but Sam Levinson’s new Netflix drama is an axe-grinding bore.
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Jerrod Carmichael’s feature directorial debut walks a tightrope of comedy and tragedy, and somehow makes it to the other side.
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Ben Wheatley’s latest is a compelling combination of pandemic thriller and folk/eco-horror.
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Our mini-reviews of five family-ccentric titles at Sundance, including ‘Coda,’ ‘John and the Hole,’ and ‘Marvelous and the Black Hole.’
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The cartoon counterpart to Harry Nilsson’s album, which premiered 50 years ago, was both of its specific moment and a timeless story of self-identity and acceptance.
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Prano Bailey-Bond’s debut feature is part meticulous recreation of the “Video Nasties” era, part intense psychological drama.
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This early Kurosawa effort, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a striking slice of postwar noir (and a sharp contrast to the work he’s best known for).
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Apple’s new Justin Timberlake vehicle has its heart is in the right place, but that’s about all it’s got going for it.
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John Lee Hancock’s serial killer thriller has been knocking around Hollywood for nearly 30 years. It should’ve stayed hidden.
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