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One of the best entries in last year’s SIFF Northwest Connections program is situated 800 miles south on I-5 and a half century in the past: the biography of Sarah Jane Moore, one of two women who independently attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford while he campaigned for election in California. Eschewing typical documentary conventions, the story of the would-be assassin is told by the subject herself, having been released from prison 32 years into her life sentence.
Who could have possibly guessed that the squirmiest elements of watching a meek all-grown-up Dudley Dursley (Harry Melling) inadvertently stumble his way into a submissive arrangement with a godlike motorcycle dom played by Alexander Skarsgård would be the amount of holiday barbershop quartet singing?
John Patton Ford taps Glen Powell to star in his loose re-imagining of a 1949 black comedy in which an outcast needs to eliminate everyone on the family tree ahead of him in the line of succession to inherit a fortune. For once, his charisma isn’t enough to make it work.
Kahlil Joseph’s multi-sensory film takes inspiration for W.E.B. Du Bois’s dream — unfinished at the time of his death, but realized decades later by a group of scholars led by Henry Louis Gates — of creating an Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. Acting more as chief curator or executive producer than a typical film director, he assembles a richly textured visual album for the screen that includes a long list of talented filmmakers, collaborators, and guest stars.
In which the only rational response to sudden intense fame is to fictionalize a version even more absurd to find some glancing approximation of the honest truth.
Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning on January 29 — online
The metaphors run hot and heavy in this down under horror story about the trauma of gay awakenings. Still, small abandoned conservative towns, spooky religion, and the overwhelming potency of teenage lust remain creepily effective tools when deployed this stylishly.
It takes a village of personalities to rescue eight passengers dangling nearly thousand perilous feet above a remote Pakistani valley in a cable car, and one action-styled documentary to make you question whether to ever set foot in a gondola again.
John Wilson’s first feature-length documentary could have been titled How To Make A Movie With John Wilson.
Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning on January 29 — online. We’ll be updating this journal with short reviews and reactions throughout the festival.
