RIVER: A Riff on Groundhog Day Set at a Kyoto Inn
RIVER: A Riff on Groundhog’s Day Set at a Kyoto Inn

At its best River uses the broad ensemble comedy of Japan in ways that evoke the best ensemble pieces like Noises Off or Christopher Guest’s work.

Sundance Film Festival 2025: ATROPIA, OMAHA & ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT

From sharp satire to raw emotion and meta-commentary, these three films take wildly different approaches to storytelling in this Sundance Film Festival.

FLIGHT RISK: Wahlberg's Villainous Turn Can't Stick The Landing
FLIGHT RISK: Wahlberg’s Villainous Turn Can’t Stick The Landing

With uninspired performances, bland writing, and half-baked plot twists, Flight Risk found its wings clipped before it ever had a chance to take off.

Sundance 2025: Bubble & Squeak and By Design
Sundance 2025: Bubble & Squeak and By Design

While quirky and strange are always welcoming qualities, they can also be quite risky. Wilson Kwong reviews Bubble & Squeak and By Design.

A WOMAN IS A WOMAN and Anna Karina is an Icon
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN and Anna Karina is an Icon

A Woman is a Woman has never looked or sounded better—but Karina’s effervescent charm remains the film’s most valuable asset.

Sundance Film Festival 2025: THE VIRGIN OF THE QUARRY LAKE, SORRY, BABY & OH, HI

While these three Sundance movies are narratively different, their female focus leaves this trio, all by female directors, a fantastic assembly of our talent in today’s industry.

PRESENCE: It’s Not Scary At All, And I Still Love It

Presence is not a good horror movie. Instead, the film succeeds as a melancholy drama.

Sundance 2025: Brides; Seeds; & Sugar Babies
Sundance 2025: BRIDES; SEEDS; & SUGAR BABIES

From Sundance Film Festival, Jules Caldeira takes a look at Brides, Seeds, and Sugar Babies.

"Miller's Girl" review
MILLER’S GIRL: A Modern Masterpiece About Sexual Power Dynamics

Miller’s Girl came and went like stormy weather, causing plenty of noise, drenching the world…

"Two Women" Sundance
Sundance 2025: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN and TWO WOMEN

Aside from having a similar word in its titles, the following two films from Sundance…

Sundance 2025: Didn’t Die and Rains Over Babel
Sundance 2025: Didn’t Die and Rains Over Babel

Though these two films, “Didn’t Die” and “Rains Over Babel,” are very different stories, they are tied together by ideas of mortality.

Sundance 2025: Mr. Nobody Against Putin & 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Sundance 2025: Mr. Nobody Against Putin & 2000 Meters to Andriivka

These two documentaries take place on opposite ends of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Both are powerful, gripping films that must be viewed in today’s climate.

"Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)" Sundance 2025
Sundance 2025: SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE) and LAST DAYS

With Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), we have a Sundance newcomer in Sierra…

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You review
Sundance 2025: PRIME MINISTER and IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

In some respects, both Prime Minister and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You are…

Sundance 2025: Pasta Negra; Somebody Cares; En Memoria; Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
Sundance 2025: Pasta Negra; Somebody Cares; En Memoria; Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites

Here’s a look at a Spanish-language fable, a crime comedy, dystopian sci-fi, and a Khmer-language story about a dead woman and her Queer grandson.