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Now available at home: Union County is available to rent or buy on digital. Originally reviewed at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Grounded in a lived-in addict experience, Union County, written and directed by Adam Meeks, is a stripped-down recovery drama anchored by a soft-spoken, quietly emotive performance from Will Poulter. Set in rural Ohio,...
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...
Now streaming: Time and Water is streaming on Disney+. Originally reviewed at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. 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.
Unreachable and strange, 'Night Nurse' very much goes to the beat of its own bizarro drum but this twisted psychosexual midnight movie is too often caught up in its own…
You may have heard the headlines before: without immediate intervention, an “environmental nuclear bomb” is set to go off in the Western USA, in Utah. The Lake, an urgent, fact-filled documentary from Utah-native and first-time feature documentarian Abby Ellis, starts by providing an alarming statistic: over half of the water in the Great Salt Lake...
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Freaky Tales, a madcap 1987 Oakland-set anthology, is a lot. Told in four loosely threaded together chapters, this interconnected story of the intersection of corruption, subculture, and violence in Reagan-era west coast America bites off more than it can chew, becoming more of an implosive collision than a meaningful exploration...
’Til distance do us part. Not death. These are the vows of the slave – or “domestic” – in Krystin Ver Linden’s Alice. But death may always interfere. And distance – through space and through time – proves to be but an illusion. Alice (Keke Palmer) is a slave. She wants for liberation, daring for...
A film review of 'Superior' directed by Erin Vassilopoulos and starring Alexandra and Ani Mesa as part of our 2021 Sundance coverage.
A film review of 'Prime Time' directed by Jakub Piątek and starring Bartosz Bielenia about the 1999 hijacking of a Warsaw television network as part of our Sundance 2021 coverage.
Sundance 2020 review of 'The Nowhere Inn' starring Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstone.