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The Things You Kill | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review

A Poison Tree: Khatami Deconstructs the Psychoses of Patriarchy For his third feature, Iranian American director Alireza Khatami formulates a powerful psychodrama unspooling through the...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #52. Matt Aselton – Lying and Stealing

You'd been forgiven if you've forgotten the name of Matt Aselton who, a decade earlier, made his directorial debut with Gigantic - a film...

Video: Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

The '18 edition of Sundance stood as a breakout year in terms of women taking ownership of material. We could cite several projects where...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #73. Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie

Lizzie Craig William Macneill's got his debut with 2015’s The Boy (read review) and it wasn't that much more time after that he landed into...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie

Originally this had helmer Pieter Van Hees set to direct, but this would become Craig William Macneill's sophomore film instead. Filming on Lizzie took place in...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #100. Michael Cuesta’s Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger Director: Michael Cuesta Writer: Peter Landesman Producers: Pamela Abdy, Naomi Despres, Jeremy Renner, Scott Stuber U.S. Distributor: Focus Features Cast: Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael...

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2025 Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Section Say Oui to Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes’

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Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre...