Imperator Furiosa’s feminist declaration of “We Are Not Things” goes far beyond the rebellion within “Mad Max: Fury Road,” but to a global, modern scale. In world cinema, it’s been the frustrated root of numerous...
Sundance's Premiere category is not about competition, but it does often get the new film year off to a good head start. Often featuring projects from directors of note, the program is a preview of what titles will find...
Few films have so far created a (richly-deserved) buzz among Sundance viewers than Kenneth Lonergan's "Manchester By the Sea," which our very own Brian Tallerico called masterful, and Amazon recently scooped up with a $10 million distribution deal....
Another year of Sundance nears its close after last Saturday evening’s awards ceremony, in which jury picks, audience favorites and special mentions were celebrated in an event hosted by “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” director Taika...
“Whiplash,” about a young drummer (Miles Teller) punishing himself in order to please a brutal teacher (J.K. Simmons) and become a great musician, is not really about jazz, nor is it about the state of contemporary American jazz...
We’ve come full circle watching movies turn into TV shows and vice versa. What used to be a one-way path of episodic directors taking on feature-length projects has become a cycle of filmmakers vying for TV gigs. Perhaps one of the most famous...
With the winners of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival's main competitions to be announced 7pm MT Saturday January 30, we've got the last batch of reviews for our complete coverage of the prestigious US Dramatic Competition. This trio includes...
It kind of feels appropriate that the last movie I’m planning
to write about from this year’s Sundance Film Festival is also one of its most
elliptical, a hard film to describe to those who haven’t seen it and a work
that tries to...
Some of my strongest Sundance memories have emerged from annual events' Midnight program, including the gleeful malevolence of “The
Guest,” the twisted glory of “We Are What We Are” and the sheer terror of...
"There
is a moment in Mozart where the music suddenly seems to draw inspiration only
from itself, from an obsession with a pure chord, all the rest being but
approaches, successive explorations, and withdrawals from this supreme position
where time...