Sundance ‘26: ‘UNDERTONE’ is Actually the Scariest Movie in Years
A masterfully assembled nightmare of all-encompassing horror, Ian Tucson’s 'Undertone' is as immersive as it is bone chilling, featuring truly elite sound design.
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Sundance ‘26: ‘THE MUSICAL’ Is Elite Crash Out Cringe Comedy
Doug Leibowitz (Will Brill) is an ostensibly mild-mannered but deeply disillusioned middle school theater teacher and once maybe promising playwright. When the Cedarhurst Middle School teacher is forced to confront the reality that his ex-girlfriend Abigail (Gillian Jacobs), who he thought he was still “on a break” with, has started dating the smarmy, aggressively politically...
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Sundance ‘26: ‘THE GALLERIST’ is A Frenetic Art World Satire Hoisted on Its Own Petard
Cathy Yan’s absurdist satirical comedy The Gallerist may attempt to be an on-the-nose skewering of the art world, but even committed performances from its all-star cast can’t make up for weak jokes and thin satire. Natalie Portman stars as Polina Poliski, an ambitious and unscrupulous gallerist who, in the midst of Art Basel Miami, is...
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Sundance ‘26: ‘ROCK SPRINGS’ Excises The Ghosts of A Not-So Distant Shame
During Ghost Month, the boundary between the living and the dead is supposed to thin. The gates of hell open up. The ghosts get hungrier. Or so says Gracie’s Nai Nai (Fiona Fu), who delivers this unsettling tidbit with the weary authority of someone who’s seen some things. For Gracie’s family, this bit of folklore...
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Sundance ’26: ‘THE WEIGHT’ Is a Perfect Dad Movie with Arthouse Details
In the midst of the Great Depression, Samuel Murphy, played by the ever-reliable Ethan Hawke, is separated from his daughter and sent to a hard labor camp. His crime? Being poor. And maybe punching the wrong guys. At the camp, Warden Clancy (Russell Crowe) notes Murphy’s quiet intelligence and problem-solving gumption; he might just be...
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Sundance ‘26: ‘SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU’ Is a PTSD-Suicide-Cancer Comedy That’s Still Somehow Funny
Aaron (Cooper Raiff) is having a tough time of it. His little sister, Leah (Kaitlyn Dever), his best friend and, maybe, his soul mate (in the completely platonic sense), has taken her own life. Though she’d wrestled with mental health issues in the past, the reality of her actually following through, of truly leaving home...
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Sundance ‘26: ‘HA-CAN SHAKE YOUR BOOTY’ Is a Joyous Celebration of Movement and Change
Loving married couple Haru (Rinko Kikuchi) and Luis (Damián Alcázar) have been practicing for the amateur Latin senior dance contest in director Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty. At home, Haru watches ballroom dance videos, studiously. Luis lovingly calms her nerves. They are prepared. They are in love. When their dance finally comes, in...
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Sundance ‘26: ‘HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR’ Sees Battle Breakout at Home and Abroad
The dissolution of a twelve-year marriage is a complicated thing, especially when you have a kid. Even moreso when you are facing the potential of impending war. Lithuanian couple Marija (Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė) and Vytas (Marius Repšys) are stuck in a loveless marriage, but Marija’s, ahem, strongly-worded proposal for separation couldn’t have come at a...
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Sundance ‘26: ‘TIME AND WATER’ Moves at the Pace of a Glacier, and Feels Just as Cold
Sara Dosa’s highly anticipated follow-up to Fire of Love arrives with the same promise of poetic science-meets-humanity. But where her debut doc was incandescent, this one plays like a glacially paced elegy that mistakes lyricism for emotional pull.
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Sundance ‘26: ‘NIGHT NURSE’ Is a Beguiling Wannabe Midnight Cult Classic
“It’s amazing to be needed,” so says the affectionate day nurse Mona (Eleonore Hendricks) in Georgia Bernstein’s bizarre psychosexual horror Night Nurse. She works alongside a troupe of other young women, each assigned to their own older man, in a luxury retirement home that’s deeply unsettling from the jump. Something peculiar is happening there, but...