All About the Money Archives - Silver Screen Riot

Sundance 2026 delivered one last cinematic dump (in a good way, like powder on a snow-barren mountain) before packing up and leaving Park City for good. From chilling headphone horror to sex comedies with emotional rot, audacious midnight freakouts to quietly devastating documentaries, this year’s lineup proved that the festival still has what it takes to be one of the preeminent film festivals in the world. Although I didn’t get a chance to see everything I had hoped to see (Leviticus top on the list of those I’ll be anxiously awaiting), I still managed to watch more Sundance premieres this year (35 total) than nearly any other year covering the festival. As should then be assumed, I have a pretty good handle on what was what so I full more than qualified to give a complete rundown of the best films from Sundance 2026. Read More

An extremely wealthy benefactor decides to buy up a plot of land and provide housing for a small faction of self-proclaimed communists in Alford, Massachusetts in the powerful, provocative, and infuriating documentary from Sinéad O’Shea, All About the Money. Her film begins with what should be a startling statistic—that the top 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90% combined—but we’ve become so familiar with this figure that it lacks the sting it should. Enter 0.01%-er Fergie Chambers, the heir of a long line of media billionaires, who – both accurately and ironically – believes that America’s wealth inequality is fundamentally destructive. And so the wealthy individual does something unconventional about it: a small-scale effort to oversee the function of a community that doesn’t have to worry about money. Read More