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The last of my World Cinema Documentary Competition dispatches for this year’s Sundance Film Festival is the most eclectic of the bunch in terms of country of origin, ranging from East Ukraine to India, Finland and...

The four films in this final round up from Sundance’s World Cinema slate could not be more different in subject or style. From the U.K. the twee comedy “Brian and Charles” sees director Jim Archer adapting...

The NEXT program at Sundance is often where some of the most memorable films premiere, usually works from young filmmakers who are playing with the form in a way that feels like it’s looking to the...

For its virtual-only edition this year, the 2022 Sundance Film Festival has limited its Midnight section to six titles that its programmers say “defy genre classification,” from skin-crawling horror to surreal comedy.  Of course, that distinction...

Links to all of our reviews of the entire program of features at this year’s Sundance Film Festival with dispatches by Brian Tallerico, Marya Gates, Robert Daniels, Isaac Feldberg, and Nick Allen. If it’s not linked...

There’s been an unexpected symmetry in the U.S. Dramatic Competition scheduling this year in that the first three films all centered on the Black experience in this country while the next three films all featured alienated...

Where do you start to talk about Bill Cosby? He was one of the most popular entertainment figures of the twentieth century, a man who reshaped the television landscape in a way that defined representation in...

Three very different stories of the modern Black experience launched the U.S. Dramatic Competition program at Sundance this year, with mixed results. They all have performances that distinguish them from the crowd, and they all clearly...

On their face, stories concerning a controversial 1990s pop star, three Indian men dedicating their lives to saving birds, and a decades-old massacre shouldn’t connect, but such is the unpredictability of the World Cinema Documentary Competition...

Sundance serves as a launching pad not just for American indie darlings, but also for emerging talent from across the globe. Among the first films screened in this year’s World Dramatic slate were Brazilian writer/director Gabriel...