Sundance Film Festival Reviews
‘Porcelain War’ Review: Intimate Reflection on Making Art in Wartime Ukraine Is Beautiful but Frustrating
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance with this look at the difficulty and necessity of producing art in times of conflict.
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‘Ponyboi’ Review: River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien Star in a Sexy, Sweaty New Jersey Fever Dream
The intersex actor and the 'Maze Runner' star play a sex worker and a goofy gangster, respectively, in a crime drama directed by Esteban Arango.
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‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Review: A Distinctive Drama About Fraught Mother-Daughter Relationships
In Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, a mother's intervention in her teenage daughter's budding romance creates an unexpected emotional love triangle.
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‘Little Death’ Review: David Schwimmer in a Darren Aronofsky-Produced Film That Trips Over Its Own Ambitions
Talia Ryder and Dominic Fike co-star in Jack Begert's satire about thwarted ambition and stolen goods.
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‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: An Enlightening Debut Doc Dives Into the Past to Ponder the Digital Future
Two women investigate the real person behind an educational software from the '80s, raising urgent questions about our relationship to technology.
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‘Daughters’ Review: A Potent Documentary Nearly Undone by Its Anticlimactic Structure
Directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae look at a program that reunites girls with their incarcerated fathers for an emotional daddy-daughter dance.
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‘Will & Harper’ Review: Will Ferrell and Harper Steele Charm Their Way Through an Endearing Road Trip Doc
After the former SNL writer came out as trans, she and the comedian traveled across America to process her transition and reaffirm their friendship.
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‘Rob Peace’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor Crafts a Conventional but Stirring True Story of Talent, Struggle and Tragedy
The actor helms and stars alongside Mary J. Blige, Jay Will and Camila Cabello in an adaptation of Jeff Hobbs' book about a gifted young man reconciling his past and his future.
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‘As We Speak’ Review: A Revealing Exposé on the Criminalization of Rap Lyrics
The debut documentary by editor J.M. Harper ('Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy') focuses on the the U.S criminal justice system's reliance on hip-hop songs to provide evidence against defendants.
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‘In the Summers’ Review: A Quiet Debut Poetically Explores Forgiveness Between Parent and Child
Alessandra Lacorazza's first feature chronicles the relationship between a father and his two kids over four summers.
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‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ Review: A Small but Stirring Portrait of a Family in Transition
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's doc spends time with a Norwegian family after the death of their blogging matriarch, when they leave their life of rural isolation but try to hold on to her ideals.
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‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’ Review: Justice Smith and David Alan Grier Star in a Satire Suffering From an Identity Crisis
The first feature from writer-director Kobi Libii revolves around a young artist recruited to be part of a group whose mission is to ease white people's discomfort.
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