My Worries Remain After Watching The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

My Worries Remain After Watching The AI Doc: Or How...
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In the cultural battle of promise versus peril, let The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist become your survival handbook for such uncertainty. … read more

Antiheroine: The Recovery of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Favorite “Trainwreck”

Antiheroine: The Recovery of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Favorite “Trainwreck”
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Courtney Love has always been a controversial archetype with her in-your-face attitude. Antiherione shows her candy-coated exterior melts with conflictions. … read more

Lady: A Powerful Story of Survival and Hope

Lady: A Powerful Story of Survival and Hope
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Lady’s efforts to keep her head down and go about her business are disrupted when old friend Pinky reappears and is now moving through the city as a sex worker. … read more

Rock Springs’ Horror Comes from its History

Rock Springs’ Horror Comes from its History
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While the family attempts a fresh start in Rock Springs, they soon realize they’re not only being haunted by hungry ghosts but by the town’s horrifying past … read more

Visualize Analog Freedom and Recklessness with The Best Summer

Visualize Analog Freedom and Recklessness with The Best Summer
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It was seeing The Best Summer at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival that made me wind back those memories like pressing the playback button.  … read more

All About the Money: In The U.S., Even Communists are Split by Class

All About the Money: In The U.S., Even Communists are...
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Fergie Chambers is the heir to the Cox fortune, which is in the hundreds of millions. Eventually his money helped lead him to find his calling: Communism. … read more

The Incomer Proves To Be A Welcome Visitor

The Incomer Proves To Be A Welcome Visitor
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What makes The Incomer work so beautifully is how confidently it commits to its strangeness while never losing sight of the humanity at its center. … read more

In the Blink of an Eye Promises Hope but Delivers Hollowness

In the Blink of an Eye Promises Hope but Delivers...
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In the Blink of an Eye is a sweeping mess whose message about life, death and humanity’s fleeting presence on Earth is a lot more hokey than hopeful.  … read more

The Musical Hits All The Wrong Notes

The Musical Hits All The Wrong Notes
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The Musical plays out like a dumbfoundingly obnoxious variation on Richard Linklater’s 2003 classic School of Rock. … read more

Run Amok is a Surreal Afterschool Special

Run Amok is a Surreal Afterschool Special
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Run Amok is all over the place trying to tackle every gun reform nuance. This leaves what she’s trying to say as half-formed or forgotten along the way. … read more

Hot Water Warms The Soul

Hot Water Warms The Soul
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Hot Water is a good road trip movie, which is more about the memorable stops along the way rather than the destination. It’s one Sundance’s most heartfelt films. … read more

Why Cinematographer David McFarland Took a Shot on Bedford Park

Why Cinematographer David McFarland Took a Shot on Bedford Park
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For cinematographer David McFarland, Bedford Park arrived at exactly the right moment — not just as a project, but as a kind of distillation of how he thinks about visual storytelling. The 2026 drama premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2026 and was written and directed by Stephanie Ahn in her feature debut. Bedford Park is