Reviews

Copa 71, or how to memory hole an entire World Cup for 50 years

There’s something remarkable about the opening scene of Copa 71. Brandi Chastain, hero of the winning American team of the 1991 Women’s World Cup, is given a tablet and shown footage of the 1971 Copa tournament, a massive women’s soccer competition in Mexico City two decades earlier than the first official FIFA Women’s World Cup. She had no idea it even existed. I suspect many other diehard women’s sports fans didn’t either (I certainly didn’t).

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June Squibb is an unlikely action star in Thelma

This caper starring June Squibb as a 93-year-old granny on a Cruise-inspired impossible mission to avenge her honor after being phone scammed & Fred Hechinger as underemployed Grandson of the Year might be the Most Sundance Movie of the fest: impeccably made, note-perfect, heartwarming comedy.

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SIFF-favorite Ghostlight returns for an encore performance

Directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson leverage the chemistry of a real-life family in crafting a drama about a working-class Chicago-area household. When we first meet the family in a principal’s office as they’re still reeling from the aftershocks of an unspecified trauma and the mounting stress of a looming lawsuit.

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Inside Out 2 isn’t just for teens

Inside Out 2 finds us once again in the head of Riley, the young girl we grew with and cried for in Inside Out. This time, she’s just just a girl, she’s hit puberty and with it a whole host of new emotions. Riley hasn’t just grown up, she’s a star hockey player with two best friends and fantastic grades… so she’s on top of the world. Overnight, her emotional buddies (Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness and Fear) find their world crashing around them as “construction” is doing a complete overhaul of her emotional stability.