We Are All Strangers ★★
Concluding his “Growing Up” trilogy that began in 2013 with Ilo Ilo and continued with 2019’s Wet Season, Anthony ChenContinue Reading
Author: Lida Bach
Chimney Town: Frozen in Time ★★
After the critical and commercial success of Yusuke Hirota‘s Poupelle of Chimney Town, which took the whimsical characters of AkihiroContinue Reading
Wolfram ★★½
Almost a decade after his highly regarded Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton returns, not only to the genre, but to theContinue Reading
Night Nurse ★★½
On the surface, the premise of Georgia Bernstein‘s deceptive debut feature, premiering at Sundance’s experimental Next section, sounds as seductiveContinue Reading
The Musical ★
Among the usually above-par selection of Sundance titles, films like Giselle Bonilla‘s crude debut feel as if the program coordinatorsContinue Reading
Give Me the Ball! (documentary) ★★★
Last year it was pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, the first US woman and third woman in the world to flyContinue Reading
The Incomer ★★
Last Sundance, it was Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan who met a quirky recluse on a fictional speck of landContinue Reading
Time and Water (documentary) ★★★ ½
Already renowned for the elemental beauty and emotional acuity of her 2022 Sundance hit Fire of Love, Sara Dosa returnsContinue Reading
Ghost in the Machine (documentary) ★★½
Situated at the uneasy crossroads of technology, philosophy, and ideological critique, Valerie Veatch delivers an intellectual investigation that interrogates theContinue Reading
Sentient (documentary) ★½
The question at the core of Tony Jones‘ dichotomous documentary Sentient, debuting at Sundance in the World Documentary Competition, runsContinue Reading
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