Month: January 2022
Sundance Film Review: God’s Country
God’s Country is a great piece of storytelling and a rewarding cinematic experience; it ranks among the best features at Sundance 2022. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Emily the Criminal
Emily The Criminal is a breakthrough for its writer-director, John Patton Ford, but an even bigger one for its star, Aubrey Plaza. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Dual
Riley Sterns’ Dual stops short of being a classic, but it’s a winning comedy that thrives thanks to its leading lady, Emma Thompson. … read more
Brian and Charles Brings a Whimsical Tale of Friendship and...
David Earl, Jim Archer and Chris Hayward discuss the path toward the creation of their zany AI comedy, Brian and Charles. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Babysitter
Babysitter is creative, charming and provocative, even if not everything that director Monia Cokri throws at the wall is quite able to stick. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Am I Ok?
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s Am I Ok? is a great movie; it’s heartwarming and at times heartbreaking but always heartfelt. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Alice
There’s no question that Alice is a rousing and thrilling moviegoing experience, but there’s a lot of question as to whether it should be. … read more
Sundance Film Review: After Yang
After Yang is an involving and ambitious film that’s well worth seeing, and it raises a lot of very interesting philosophical questions. … read more
Sundance Film Review: A Love Song
A Love Song is exactly the kind of diamond-in-the-rough that makes the Sundance Film Festival something that I look forward to each year. … read more
Film Review: The Runner
What makes Boy Harsher’s The Runner feel timely is its sense of “creep” from one narrative reality and genre into another. … read more