In a series of single cooped-up takes Steven Soderbergh gives us a ghost’s eye view of a family slowly coming undone.
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Sundance 2024 Notebook: Love Lies Bleeding
Between this and last year’s Magazine Dreams, someone in the Sundance programming department sure has a thing for bodybuilder body horror.
Sundance 2024 Notebook: Sasquatch Sunset
After sitting through two hours of the Zellner brother’s long-awaited, dialogue-free, scatalogical feature, I have come to the conclusion that the quotidian existence of America’s favorite hairy cryptozooid is perhaps a topic best left enshrouded in eternal mystery.
Sundance 2024 Notebook: The American Society of Magical Negroes
Conjuring something between Hogwarts and Kingsman, Kobi Libii imagines an “American Society of Magical Negroes” as a real world organization behind the “supportive black friend” trope.
Sundance 2024 Notebook: Stress Positions
Remember 2020? Theda Hammel’s period piece finds John Early as Terry Goon (lol), a harried, incompetent, Covid-conscious caretaker for his exoticized model nephew who’s recovering in isolation from a broken leg.
Sundance 2024 Notebook: Veni Vidi Vici
Opening with an Ayn Rand quote, Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann’s family portrait of ultra-rich Austrian Psychos who quite literally get away with murder is almost too severe to be considered satire.
Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Utah Tomorrow, Online next week
Celebrating its 40th edition, Sundance Film Festival is back with a full slate of in-person programming in the resort town of Park City with a full slate of screenings in Salt Lake City. Once again film lovers, journalists, and critics are flocking to the mountain ski area to kick the year off with a huge array of new feature films from a diverse set of veteran filmmakers and emerging directors.
Seattle Film Critics name Past Lives the Best Picture of 2023
Following a member’s only party at the Rendezvous Jewel Box on Saturday night, the Seattle Film Critics Society announced their [our] awards …
Josh’s Favorite Films of 2023
In 2022 it felt like moviegoing came (almost) all the way back (for the seemingly dwindling number of people who were willing to go into the theaters). As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
On holiday screens, Great Men Biopics: The Iron Claw, Maestro, and Ferrari
The holidays are always a crowded time at the multiplex. This year brings a slate of movies begging for your attention, including three biopics of great men vying for your attentions.