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Sundance 2024 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning on the 25th — online. I’m on the ground scurrying around the mountains to catch as much as I can. Keep an eye here (and @thesunbreak) for quick updates throughout the festival, with longer reviews to follow.
In a series of single cooped-up takes Steven Soderbergh gives us a ghost’s eye view of a family slowly coming undone.
Nickel Boys (2024 | USA | 140 minutes | RaMell Ross) RaMell Ross’s exquisitely-shot close first-person perspective makes for an audacious act …
Wolf Man (2024 | USA | 103 minutes | Leigh Whannell) When director Leigh Whannell was tapped by Universal Pictures a few …
On paper, the movie hits all of my receptors. The location is gorgeous, the acting is phenomenal, and I’m not sure anyone has ever worn anything cooler in a movie than that yellow suit Tilda Swinton wears.
Musicals live and die by music and that is where Better Man succeeds. Most musicals are lucky if they have one or two show-stopping scenes. Better Man has at least five.
In 1909 a small band of Korean independence fighters including protagonist Ahn Jung-geun (Hyun Bin) plot to assassinate Japan’s first Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi. Their goal was to take a big step toward Korean independence and pull their country out from underneath Japan’s harsh rule. Hirobumi had just rejected Korea’s attempt at annexation, so in response a small group of Korean soldiers hatched a plan to eliminate this new threat.
As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
