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In our latest report from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Wilson Kwong reviews Shortcomings and Jamojaya!
If all you want to do is go back in time and see these bands performing when they were at the peak of their powers, then Meet Me in the Bathroom certainly gets the job done.
From pensive and meditative to egotistically powerful, Todd Field’s Tár is a film for the senses.
Purple Hearts stands as a viable romance venture that is sure to pull at your heartstrings while delivering a platform of conversation for modern struggles.
Andrew Dominik’s two documentary productions with musician Nick Cave function more as hypnotic trance of visual, incandescent composition.
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie goes into the mythology around the song that runs deep and wide, resonating with so many.
There’s a lot to take away from Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, including, most importantly, a better understanding of the artist himself.
The musical performances in Elvis will obviously be a major draw but the stellar performances make it all the more intoxicating.
Spanning the release of her film Hustlers to her Superbowl Halftime performance, Amanda Micheli’s Halftime documents Jennifer Lopez.
The tools for articulating Asian cultures and histories are being kept out of the hands of Asian and Asian-American composers, and that needs to change.
The Torch is as inspiring as its legendary subject, working as part of the effort to keep the Blues heard and alive.
If you can go along with all its winking and ribbing of rock culture, there’s enough self-deprecating, decapitating humor for a bloody fun meta-horror.
Poly Styrene: I Am A Clichè keeps her legacy alive, while also recognizing that behind the iconic music and photos she was a real, flawed woman.
With its more intimate scope, flawed or not, the documentary attempts to understand Brian Wilson.
In the vein of Citizen Kane, the documentary sets out on the foolhardy task of finding Dean Martin’s Rosebud: the puzzle piece to unlock what made him tick.