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2025 Sundance: Cherien Dabis, Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Clint Bentley, Ira Sachs & Bill Condon in Premieres Section
On paper, this year's Premieres section offerings (fiction and non-fiction) should be all the hyope and talked about well into awards season. Some of...
Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil
For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as...
The Silent Twins | Review
Sistas With(out) Voices: Smoczynska Revisits Case Study of Antisocial Twins
Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczynska makes her English language debut with third feature The Silent Twins, based...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Silent Twins
Just two feature films in (2015's The Lure and 2018's Fugue), Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska has built a rabid fan base - us included....
Together Together | Review
A Womb of One’s Own: Beckwith Basks in Basics with Sterile Dramedy
The tricky intersections of gestational surrogacy provide a scenario automatically rife with narrative...
Honey Boy | Review
Tears of a Clown: Har’el and LaBoeuf Exorcise Demons
Honey Boy is a shockingly personal movie where Shia LaBoeuf plays his own dad. If that...
Interview: Lulu Wang, Awkwafina & Diana Lin – The Farewell
“Based on an actual lie,” Lulu Wang’s The Farewell lifts events from her own complicated family history into the filmic sphere. In this captivating...
Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
When life gives you lemons, make a feature film out of it. A union that came about by a mutual appreciation artistic sensibilities, Alma...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #26. Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy
Honey Boy
Not unlike Kitty Green, Alma Har’el moves from a pair of free flowing in form docu features in Bombay Beach and LoveTrue into a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #90. Untitled Lulu Wang Comedy
Her debut film in 2014's Posthumous (Jack Huston and Brit Marling) went mostly unseen, but something tells me this currently untitled American-Asian family comedy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #76. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
Sam Levinson offered us one of the best films of 2011 with his directorial debut --- we called it “a bitter, nasty, angry film about...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
It's been a long seven years between features for Sam Levinson. Having started his film career with one of the best films from 2011...
Video: Marti Noxon’s To The Bone: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I needed to grow a pair, I needed to hit bottom, I needed to decide to live for myself." - Marti Noxon.
A comedy about...