Daniel Kwan has a lot to say on the subject of artificial intelligence. The Oscar-winning filmmaker — one half of The Daniels directing team behind Everything Everywhere All…
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Read more ‘Rock Springs’ Review: Kelly Marie Tran and Benedict Wong in a Fresh, Vivid Spin on Grief HorrorIt’s true, the 2026 Sundance Film Festival hasn’t wrapped up quite yet. In-person screenings continue through February 1, and the fest won’t hand out its awards until January…
Read more A Farewell to the Sundance Film Festival—and Park CityOf the many insights into turbulent genius Courtney Love in Brit filmmakers Edward Lovelace and James Hall’s adoring biographical doc Antiheroine, the most captivating is the alt rock…
Read more ‘Antiheroine’ Review: Courtney Love Comes Clean About Highs, Lows and Needing to Be Heard in a Rock Doc Both Raucous and IntimateRarely does an opening song choice so precisely define the mood of a film like LCD Soundsystem’s exquisitely tortured anthem “New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing…
Read more ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Review: John Turturro Mesmerizes as a Small-Time Hustler Facing Obsolescence in Fine-Grained Crime ThrillerWhile the happy and only barely tortured gay romance of Heated Rivalry sweeps the nation, nay the world, it might be instructive, if depressing, to remind ourselves that…
Read more ‘Leviticus’ Review: A Sad, Frightening Conversion-Therapy Horror From AustraliaA mother-son road movie more laced with humor than laden with trauma, Hot Water marks a warm and sensitive, if not entirely satisfying, debut feature from Ramzi Bashour.…
Read more ‘Hot Water’ Review: Lubna Azabal and Daniel Zolghadri Go West in a Slight but Sensitive Mother-Son Road MovieIf you were at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2024, you might have noticed a surprising face amidst the art lovers and buyers. It was Natalie Portman,…
Read more Quirky Comedy ‘The Gallerist’ Asks a Bold Question: Can a Dead Body Be Art?In Josef Kubota Wladyka‘s Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!, the co-writer/director tells a beautifully relatable story of life, love and loss with some Fosse-quality dance numbers and just the…
Read more ‘Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!’ Review: Japanese Comedy-Drama Dances Through Grief With Heart & Absurd Whimsy — Sundance Film FestivalCourtesy of A24. The Moment A.k.a. Charli xcx’s hyperpop mockumentary, helmed by the most in-demand creative director in music right now: Aidan Zamiri, channeling Charli’s humor for a…
Read more The 16 Films and TV Shows We’re Most Excited to See at Sundance 2026As an Academy Award winning director, actor, producer, and the founder of Sundance Film Festival, the late Robert Redford, 89, was undoubtedly an impressive individual. But what made…
Read more One Lesson in Leadership from Robert RedfordMaisy Stella, playing 18-year-old Elliot Labrant, finds her future self at age 39 (played by Aubrey Plaza) in the trailer for Megan Park’s My Old Ass, which dropped…
Read more Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella Go Tripping in ‘My Old Ass’ TrailerJustin Bieber and Aubrey Plaza. Getty Images (2) The My Old Ass team was pleasantly surprised that Justin Bieber gave the OK to use his song “One Less…
Read more Justin Bieber Signed Off on Aubrey Plaza’s 'My Old Ass' to Using His SongLisa Barlow, star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, is known as the “Queen of Sundance” and stopped by the Deadline Studio at the Sundance Film…
Read more ‘RHOSLC’ Star Lisa Barlow Calls Monica Garcia “Good TV” & Reveals If She Would Film With Her AgainThe summer before I left for college, I couldn’t be bothered to spend time with my family. I had friends to say long goodbyes to, beer to drink…
Read more Aubrey Plaza Symbolizes Doom to Come in Charming Fable ‘My Old Ass’Exhibiting Forgiveness, directed and written by Titus Kaphar, is a thought-provoking film starring Andre Holland, John Earl Jelks, Andra Day, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Ian Foreman. Set against a…
Read more ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ Review: Art, Emotion, And The Journey Of Self-Healing – Sundance Film FestivalIf you follow the news, you’d think that AI is going to take over every activity we formerly thought of as “human,” perhaps by the time you finish…
Read more ‘Love Machina’ Review: Provocative but Unfocused Doc Tackles Romance and RoboticsThe writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is a child of modern media—much like the rest of the old-Millennial age cohort, those of us weaned on VHS and broadcast TV in…
Read more ‘Buffy,’ Fandom, and Identity Converge Powerfully in ‘I Saw the TV Glow’Lana Wilson sees a lot of similarities between making a documentary about Taylor Swift and a documentary about psychics. “We all want to be understood—it’s very easy to…
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