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‘THE MUSICAL’ Is Elite Crash Out Cringe Comedy

‘THE MUSICAL’ Is Elite Crash Out Cringe Comedy

Now available at home: The Musical is available to rent or buy on digital (Apple TV, Amazon and Fandango at Home) as of October 20, 2026. Originally reviewed at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Doug Leibowitz (Will Brill) is an ostensibly mild-mannered but deeply disillusioned middle school theater teacher and once maybe promising playwright. When...

SUNDANCE ’26 REVIEW
Sundance ‘26: ‘CLOSURE’ Is an Electrifying, Devastating Search for Meaning in Loss

Sundance ‘26: ‘CLOSURE’ Is an Electrifying, Devastating Search for Meaning in Loss

Shot with cinematic flair, Michał Marczak’s Polish-language documentary Closure is a rattling search and rescue: both for an actual missing kid and the soul of the father searching. Following the disappearance of his teenage son Chris, Daniel diligently scours the Vistula River, hoping to either recover his son’s corpse or uncover some hint that he...