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Our coverage of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival organized by program. Links will go live as the coverage goes live. Coverage is by Brian Tallerico, Nick Allen, Robert Daniels, Kristy Puchko, and Carlos Aguilar. U.S. Dramatic...

Valerie Taylor is a badass. For decades, she and her husband Ron have worked tirelessly as conservation-divers to protect sharks, creatures often misunderstood as violent toward humans. Valerie often claims sharks are as harmless as dogs. But...

History seems to cut itself off at the knees every few miles now and toss the old limbs away so no one remembers how it used to walk. Everything moves at the speed of thought, which...

The NEXT slate at Sundance is intended to celebrate digital filmmaking that pushes the boundaries of cinema to strange new places. For three films in this section, that means exploring love in the time of cellular....

Two very unique journeys are undertaken in a pair of very different films that premiered via the Sundance Film Festival today, January 31st. Sion Sono and Karen Cinorre have very different things on their mind but...

One of the happy byproducts of Sundance’s digital incarnation is time. Space to first consider, more space to reconsider. On first blush, Jessica Beshir’s abstract anthropological directorial feature debut, “Faya Dayi,” left me underwhelmed. Bewildered. In...

For Sundance’s long history of fostering hip films that are distinctly of-the-moment, premiere title “How It Ends” is its first official ensemble pandemic comedy. Written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, the film wears...

We are going to see a lot of movies about the pandemic. Major world events always influence art, and we can expect issues related to COVID to work their way into every genre. One of the...

Fairness has been long delayed and denied in Zimbabwe. Following a military-backed coup of the country’s president-dictator Robert Mugabe after a 38-year reign, his former Vice President and successor President E.D. Mnangagwa is running for reelection...

It seemed as if Cicely Tyson would go on forever. With the news of her passing yesterday at the remarkable age of 96, we all have to come to terms with what we have lost. She saw nearly a century of extraordinary change...