Our 2014 Sundance Film Festival Coverage: Reviews & Interviews

2014 Sundance Film Festival Coverage: EL: Eric Lavallee. NB: Nicholas Bell. CC: Caitlin Coder. JS: Jordan M. Smith

SPECIAL SCREENING (1)
Nympho Vol. I – (EL: ✮✮✮✮)

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION (16)
Camp X-Ray – (NB: ✮✮✮)
Cold in July – (NB: ✮✮✮ 1/2)
Dear White People – (NB: ✮✮✮)
Fishing Without Nets – (EL: ✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮✮) + (NB: ✮✮✮)
God’s Pocket – (CC: ✮✮ 1/2)
Happy Christmas – (CC: ✮✮✮ 1/2) + (JS: ✮✮✮ 1/2) +  (NB: ✮✮ 1/2)
Hellion – (EL: ✮✮) + (JM: ✮✮✮1/2)
Infinitely Polar Bear – (EL: ✮✮✮)
Jamie Marks Is Dead – (EL: ✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮1/2) + (NB: ✮✮ 1/2)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter – (JS: ✮✮✮ 1/2)
Life After Beth – (EL: ✮ 1/2) + (NB: ✮ )
Low Down – (CC: ✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮✮)
The Skeleton Twins – (NB: ✮✮✮1/2) +  (EL: ✮✮✮1/2) + (CC: ✮✮✮1/2) (Review)
The Sleepwalker – (EL: ✮✮✮ 1/2) + (JS: ✮✮✮1/2) + (CC: ✮✮✮✮) + (NB: ✮✮✮)
Song One – (EL: ✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮1/2)
Wish I Was Here – (CC: ✮✮)

U.S. DOCU COMPETITION (16)
Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory (JS: ✮✮✮)
All the Beautiful Things
CAPTIVATED The Trials of Pamela Smart: (EL: ✮✮✮)
The Case Against 8
Cesar’s Last Fast
Dinosaur 13 – (EL: ✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮) (Review)
E-TEAM (JS: ✮✮✮)
Fed Up
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Jordan: (EL: ✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮✮1/2)
Ivory Tower (JS: ✮✮1/2)
Marmato – (JS: ✮✮1/2) (Review)
No No: A Dockumentary (CC: ✮✮1/2) + (JS: ✮✮1/2)
The Overnighters (JS: ✮✮✮✮) (Review)
Private Violence (JS: ✮✮1/2)
Rich Hill (JS: ✮✮✮)
Watchers of the Sky (JS: ✮✮1/2)

PREMIERES (18)
Boyhood – (NB: ✮✮✮) + (EL: ✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮✮) (Review)
Calvary (CC: ✮✮✮✮1/2) +  (JS: ✮✮1/2)
Frank – (CC: ✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮1/2) + (NB: ✮)
Hits – (CC: ✮✮✮1/2)
I Origins – (EL: ✮✮) + (CC: ✮✮✮1/2) + (JS: ✮✮✮1/2) + (NB: ✮ 1/2)
Laggies
Little Accidents (EL: ✮✮✮) + (CC: ✮✮✮)
Love is Strange – (CC: ✮✮✮1/2) + (NB: ) (Review)
A Most Wanted Man – (NB: ✮✮ 1/2)
Nick Offerman: American Ham
The One I Love – (CC: ✮✮✮)
The Raid 2 (JS: ✮✮✮) + (NB: ✮)
Rudderless
They Came Together – (CC: ✮✮)
The Trip to Italy – (NB: ✮✮✮)
The Voices Inside – (NB: ✮) (Review)
White Bird in a Blizzard – (JS: ✮✮1/2) + (NB: ✮✮ 1/2)
Young Ones

PARK CITY at MIDNIGHT (8)
The Babadook – (NB: ✮✮✮✮)
Cooties
Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead
The Guest – (NB: ✮✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮✮✮) (Review)
Killers
The Signal
Under the Electric Sky (EDC 2013) (JS: ✮✮ 1/2)
What We Do in the Shadows

NEXT (11)
Appropriate Behavior – (EL: ✮✮✮)
Drunktown’s Finest – (EL: ✮✮✮)
The Foxy Merkins
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Imperial Dreams –  (CC: ✮✮✮ 1/2) + (JS: ✮✮✮)
Land Ho! – (EL: ✮✮✮ 1/2) + (NB: ✮✮✮)
Listen Up Philip – (EL: ✮✮ 1/2)
Memphis
Obvious Child – (CC: ✮✮✮✮) + (JS: ✮✮✮✮)  (EL: ✮ 1/2)
Ping Pong Summer – (EL: ✮✮✮ 1/2) (JS: ✮✮)
War Story – (EL: ✮✮✮ 1/2) + (NB: ✮✮✮)

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES (11)
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Finding Fela – (JS: ✮✮✮1/2)
Freedom Summer
Happy Valley
LAMBERT & STAMP
Last Days in Vietnam
Life Itself – (JS: ✮✮✮)
Mitt – Greg Whiteley
This May Be the Last Time – Sterlin Harjo
To Be Takei – Jennifer Kroot
We Are the Giant – Greg Barker
WHITEY: United States of America v. James J. Bulger – (CC: ✮✮ 1/2)

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION (12)
20,000 Days on Earth-  (JS: ✮✮✮)
Concerning Violence
The Green Prince
Happiness
Love Child – (CC: ✮✮✮1/2)
Mr. Leos Carax – (JS ✮✮1/2) + (NB: ✮✮1/2)
The Notorious Mr. Bout – (JS: ✮✮✮1/2) (Review)
The Return to Homs
Sepideh — Reaching for the Stars
We Come as Friends – (EL: ✮✮✮ 1/2) + (CC: ✮✮✮✮ 1/2)
Web Junkie

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION (12)
52 Tuesdays – (NB: ✮✮✮)
Blind –  (JS: ✮✮✮✮)
Difret
The Disobedient
God Help the Girl – (CC: ✮✮)
Liar’s Dice
Lilting – (NB: ✮✮✮) (Review)
Lock Charmer
To Kill a Man
Viktoria
Wetlands – (NB: ✮✮✮1/2) (Review)
White Shadow

NEW FRONTIER FILMS (6)
The Better Angels – A.J. Edwards – (JS: ✮✮✮✮1/2) + (CC: ✮✮✮) (Review)
The Girl From Nagasaki – Michel Comte
HitREcord on TV – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Living Stars – Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat
Measure of all things – (JS: ✮✮✮✮)
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People – Thomas Allen Harris

SUNDANCE KIDS (2)
Ernest and Celestine – Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar (JS: ✮✮✮✮1/2) (Review)
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang – Oskar Santos

SPOTLIGHT (8)
Blue Ruin – Jeremy Saulnier
The Double – Richard Ayoade
Ida – Pawel Pawlikowski
Locke – Steven Knight
The Lunchbox – Ritesh Batra
Only Lovers Left Alive – Jim Jarmusch
R100 – Hitoshi Matsumoto
Stranger by the Lake – Alain Guiraudie