A deadpan delight with Karen Gillan at her best in a multifaceted performance, Dual is absolutely one of the finest works of the fest thus far.
Author: Chase Hutchinson
Sundance 2022: A Love Song
Without a doubt, there is nothing at this year’s festival that will ever quite be like A Love Song. The serene beauty of the film’s vision rips the breath away, showing the detail in everything from the dazzling landscapes to the etchings in the faces of the kind people that inhabit them. It is a story about love, loneliness, and what life is like when you find yourself on your own.
New Scream is a killer good time
Love is seen in every frame and sequence that is in conversation with itself, deploying and then subverting tropes with reckless abandon in the brilliant way that only a Scream film could.
The dual lives of The Lost Daughter
A measured feature debut from director Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter provides an incisive look at motherhood seen through the expressive eyes of Oliva Colman.
Chase’s Favorite Films of 2021
The year saw a tentative return to in-person screenings, an experience I had deeply missed. Getting to see ambitious, challenging, and moving storytelling on the big screen was something I’ll be sure to never take for granted again. Here are the top films I saw in 2021.
Red Pill Review: The Matrix Resurrections is one final great film to end the year
Challenging what it means to fashion a creative work in a world of endless sequels, it is as brilliant a way to end the year as one could hope for
The King’s Man crashes in as a last-minute entry for 2021’s worst film
An unexpectedly boring blunder that proves to be the biggest cinematic disaster of the year, the atrocious The King’s Man kills any goodwill for a franchise already on its last legs.
With Nightmare Alley Guillermo del Toro masterfully crafts a noir thriller overflowing with atmosphere
Even as it may not see the director make use of monsters or creatures, Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is characteristically strong work from the auteur that revels in the darkness of its noir origins.
A film about finding yourself, Wolf will leave you howling in both pain and laughter
The next progression in the unintentional trilogy of films that have a single word title of an animal, with Pig and Lamb preceding it, Wolf is an uncomfortably strange look at a young man who thinks he is the four-legged predator.
Despite a great performance from Riz Ahmed, Encounter never arrives at a meaningful destination
Defined by missed potential, Encounter sees Riz Ahmed giving a committed central performance that is let down by the meandering narrative of the rest of the film around him.