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Closing out our coverage of the World Dramatic Competition program brings us to four films, two from small European countries with burgeoning national cinemas and two from East Asia. Three of them deal with traditions, the fight...

Mary Shelley never got the credit she deserved when she was alive and still struggles to get the right attention in the Shudder original “A Nightmare Wakes,” a film that purports to shed light on the...

One of the best films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was also one of its most controversial, the haunting and powerful “Cusp” from directors Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt, who won an award on Tuesday...

Three films from Ibero-America premiered in the World Dramatic section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Peculiarly enough they all feel related to each other, almost as if part of the same thought wavelength, in theme...

If you asked Kate and Tully, the protagonists of Netflix’s soapy new mom-dram “Firefly Lane,” to describe the series in which they live in one word, their responses would probably go something like this: Kate, the...

Sundance is known for its progressive approach to wide entertainment, but it also can be known for loving a crowd-pleaser. It has worked for “Little Miss Sunshine” all the way to 2019’s “Troop Zero,” so why...

If you were to look at a picture of Hal Holbrook without knowing who he was, you might not immediately tag him as an actor. With his blandly handsome and strait-laced appearance, he gave off the...

Rodney Ascher’s documentaries dream of something bigger than just sharing information—they aim to permanently rewire your brain. His debut feature “Room 237” broke down the wildest hidden messages within Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” so that you’ll never see that classic...

Though often overlooked in the hype-chasing fever of the Park City festival, and even this year in its COVID-imposed virtual edition, the international stories in the World Dramatic section continue to demonstrate there are gems outside...

The line between reality and dreams are blurred in three daring selections from Sundance’s NEXT section. These three films employ nostalgia, lore, and modern myths in tales terrifying and tender. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney write,...