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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
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.
Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning on January 29 — online
Cherien Dabis traces one family’s journey through pivotal time points: a businessman’s expulsion from Jaffa an internment in a forced labor camp in 1948, his son’s life as an idealistic teacher in a refugee camp in 1978, the teen’s life a decade later in 1988, and beyond.
Marty Supreme (2025 | USA | 150 minutes | Josh Safdie) From an explosive introduction — complete with a vibrant Alphaville-scored health …
This afternoon, the Seattle Film Critics Society (which counts a few of us as members) announced nominations for the 2025 SFCS Awards. Dominating the nominations was Ryan Coogler’s Sinners with fourteen, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another with twelve, and Clint Bentley’s Pacific Northwest-set Train Dreams with eight.
