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Sundance 2020: On the Record, Into the Deep, Assassins
By EntertainerEveryone at Sundance this year agreed that the non-fiction slate was one of the strongest in the history of a festival that has produced more than its fair share of beloved documentaries. As the festival gets into its midsection and the question of...Sundance 2020: Black Bear, Shirley
By EntertainerTwo of the most buzzed titles on the first weekend of Sundance 2020 are at least partially about the torture of living with creative people. And both verge into the surreal, blurring the line between traditional plotting and filmmaking drenched in...Beanpole
By EntertainerAround and around the young woman goes, spinning in her green dress until she suddenly finds that she cannot stop. The carefree giggles that had rippled from her lips, harkening back to the innocence of her childhood, are replaced with labored...Sundance 2020: Spree, Feels Good Man
By EntertainerOnly a mad man like Eugene Kotlyarenko could have made the bloody, brilliant social media satire that is Sundance NEXT title “Spree.” He’s always had fresh critical ideas about how communication through modern technology...Sundance 2020: High Tide, Summer White
By EntertainerIn Verónica Chen’s Argentinian film “High Tide,” a woman does what she wants with her body, and then has to put up with leering men and their disgusting lack of boundaries. Laura (Gloria Carrá) decides that she...Sundance 2020: His House, The Night House
By EntertainerThe last film to get its world premiere as part of Sundance’s Midnight program was Remi Weekes’ “His House,” the kind of confident debut that from start-to-finish feels like beholding a major new vision in horror. "His House"...We Are Made to Feel Ashamed of Ourselves: Justin Simien on Bad Hair
By EntertainerSix years ago, Justin Simien arrived to Sundance with “Dear White People,” a comedy set on a college campus which questioned identity and the parameters of Blackness. The film won the festival’s dramatic prize and spawned a...Love Has No Gender: Kantemir Balagov on Beanpole
By EntertainerJudged by accolades won at Europe’s pre-eminent film festival, Russia’s Kantemir Balagov may well be the world’s most lauded current filmmaker under the age of 30. In 2017, when he was 26, “Closeness,” his debut...Sundance 2020: Love Fraud, Lance, City So Real
By EntertainerWhat does it say about the current state of entertainment that three of the best premieres at Sundance this year were of television docu-series? After the success of events like “OJ: Made in America,” “Finding Neverland,”...Sundance 2020: Acasa, My Home, Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
By EntertainerA family’s journey of culture shock that sprawls over many years and different members’ lives, “Acasa, My Home” concerns what lack of freedom comes with being quote-unquote civilized. Director Radu Ciorniciuc has assembled a...
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