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Documentaries have long been an essential part of the Sundance experience. Just from last year alone, four of the five Oscar nominees for Best Documentary of the year can boast being a Park City premiere: “All...

Created by Dean Devlin for SYFY and Peacock, “The Ark” takes place sometime soon, when Earth’s prospects ain’t looking so good. A large group of human beings—many of them of a certain age and what we...

Sundance unleashed a baffling mess last week with the satire “Landscape with Invisible Hand,” the latest movie from “Thoroughbreds” director Cory Finley. For his third project, he invests a lot of time and care into a...

Andrew Bowser is a filmmaker who deeply commits to his creations, and I suspect that will help his budding career as a writer/director/editor/actor. Take his hilarious and impressive Midnight movie “Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman...

Trauma has long been a theme of independent cinema—it doesn’t cost a lot of money to tell stories of human resilience. And so it makes sense that a festival like Sundance would have a large selection...

It is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of Catherine Stovall this past Tuesday, January 24th, at 2pm. She was 103 years old and lived her life as an inspiration to her family, her...

It wouldn’t be Sundance without a half-dozen or so profile docs. It’s a form of non-fiction filmmaking that often drives me a little crazy as filmmakers too commonly dismiss form to plant a camera down in...

Maryam Kesharvarz’s “The Persian Version” is an ebullient rule-breaker, and it does so in the name of the many women it wants to celebrate. With complete control of its tone and an ambitiousness in telling two...

“Shortcomings” is an amiable comedy about an asshole, as directed by someone who has built an on-screen reputation of being a nice guy. Randall Park (of TV’s “Blockbuster” and “Fresh Off the Boat”), making his debut...

Famous faces pop up in three very different films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, all of them doing their best to anchor stories of complex characters struggling through difficult chapters in their lives. These three...