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‘Fancy Dance’ Sundance Film Festival Review: Lily Gladstone Delivers A Strong Performance In Erica Tremblay’s Feature Film Debut
Erica Tremblay's Fancy Dance shows the darkside of reservation life for Indigenous people, especially women. As an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Fancy Dance it's a unique viewing experience as the viewer is brought in to observe these characters…
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Sundance Review: Cynthia Erivo & Alia Shawkat In Anthony Chen’s ‘Drift’
Anyone who has traveled to seaside resort areas around the world will recognize them, the obvious foreigners who spend their days approaching tourists with assorted trinkets to sell and are most often ignored or shooed away by Westerners. Precious few films…
Sundance Review: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s Remarkable Trans Drama ‘Mutt’
Although trans rights are now the subject of a simmering culture war in America and the UK, that conflict is largely predicated on the increasing visibility of trans women at a time where self-ID is controversially becoming the norm. Stories of trans men, however, tend to go under the radar, and this…
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By Damon Wise
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Sundance Review: Sing J. Lee’s ‘The Accidental Getaway Driver’
The Accidental Getaway Driver is one those rare, where-did-this-come-from films that every so often pops up to invigorate festivals and adventurous viewers on the lookout for something fresh and different. Generically, this is nothing new, a low-down gritty…
‘Poker Face’ Review: No Lie! Natasha Lyonne & Rian Johnson’s Peacock Road Trip Procedural Is All Green Lights & Parking Spaces
Let’s put our cards on the table: Almost three years after Peacock launched, the Comcast-owned streamer finally has a legitimate potential breakout show in Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson's Poker Face.
Debuting with four episodes Friday and then dropping the rest of its 10-episode first season…
Sundance Review: Kitchen-Sink Whimsy In Charlotte Regan’s ‘Scrapper’
The cost of living crisis has hit the U.K. hard, but you wouldn't guess from the trio of films screening in the official selection at Sundance. Rye Lane, in Premieres, is a goofy love story set in south London; Girl, in World Dramatic, is a tender parent-child drama set in Glasgow; and Scrapper, also in…
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By Damon Wise
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Sundance Review: Andrew Bowser’s ‘Onyx The Fortuitous And The Talisman Of Souls’
Genre comedies are a mixed bag, and for every cult gem like 2010's Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, the Sundance Midnight strand has been known to throw in a bomb or two. In its opening moments, Andrew Bowser's fourth feature threatens to be such a write-off, with achingly broad comic strokes and jokes that…
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By Damon Wise
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Sundance Review: The Weird World Of Eddie Alcazar’s ‘Divinity’
There's a certain type of dystopian sci-fi that turns up in Sundance every few years, a kind of 'EPCOT on acid' that causes a big ripple then rapidly fades away (see Escape From Tomorrow, a paranoid conspiracy thriller shot, guerrilla-style, in Disneyworld). Divinity, screening in the Next section, fits…
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By Damon Wise
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‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Sundance Review: Aliens Are Humanity’s Economic Overlords In Cory Finley Pic
Landscape with Invisible Hand is a unique story of survival under economic occupation of the Vuvv, an extraterrestrial race who aim to dominate humanity in every way except violence. Written and directed by Cory Finley (Bad Education, Thoroughbreds), the innovative, poignant film explores how humanity…
Sundance Review: Randall Park’s Heartwarming ‘Shortcomings’
For anyone wondering how a film called Crazy Rich Asians ever came to be the poster child for diversity and inclusion, Randall Park's humorous rebuttal is, almost literally, that film's poor distant relation. Adapted from a comic book rather than a novel and with a cast of character actors rather than…
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By Damon Wise
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‘Rye Lane’ Sundance Review: A Sunny, Irreverent Tribute To British Rom-Com Forebears
Breathing fresh life into the rom-com genre, Raine Allen Miller's Rye Lane is a delight. Premiering at Sundance, it pays affectionate tribute to its forebears while injecting a youthful British energy reminiscent of seminal TV shows such as Skins. This is a sunny, irreverent take on life and love…
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By Anna Smith
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‘Passages’ Sundance Film Review: Ira Sachs’ Relationship Drama Excites & Frustrates
Ira Sachs’ latest film centers on a three-way relationship between two men and a woman as they navigate their way through love, lust and heartbreak. Passages begins on a film set. Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a German man in Paris, is directing a period piece. On set, he's a hardass, always yelling, screaming…
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