The prestigious French festival came back with a vengeance, after sitting out its 2020 edition.
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This year’s version of the 20-year-old New York media fest struggled to maintain its identity in a tricky, almost-post-pandemic atmosphere.
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A look at four of the documentaries of #SXSW – and what they tell us about current trends in non-fiction film.
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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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A quick look at some of the odder titles of #Sundance2021, including “R#J,” “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” and “Cryptozoo.”
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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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Prano Bailey-Bond’s debut feature is part meticulous recreation of the “Video Nasties” era, part intense psychological drama.
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A look at the inaugural edition of the virtual genre film festival, featuring mini-reviews of ‘Anything But Jackson,’ ‘Come True,’ ‘The Queen of Black Magic,’ and more.
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As an outside-the-box New York Film Festival draws to a close, some thoughts on its highlights, including ‘Nomadland,’ ‘On the Rocks,’ ‘French Exit,’ ‘MLK/FBI,’ ‘I Carry You With Me,’ ‘Hopper/Welles,’ and more.
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A very unusual dispatch from a very unusual Toronto International Film Festival.
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