Capsule reviews, quick thoughts, and instant reactions on this year’s festival films.
Category: Festivals
Movie Festivals around the world
Sundance 2023: Passages
Ira Sachs goes to Paris
Sundance 2023 Notebook: Infinity Pool
Some sicko gave Brandon Cronenberg the keys to the White Lotus and this is what happened.
Sundance 2023 Notebook: Eileen
Dispatches from Sundance: a twisty literary adaptation.
Sundance 2023 Notebook: Cat Person
Dispatches from Sundance: a short story makes it to the big screen
Sundance 2023 Notebook: Justice
Dispatches from Sundance: a revisitation of recent political events
Sundance 2023 Notebook: Magazine Dreams
Dispatches from Sundance: a herculean performance from one of our great actors.
Sundance Film Festival is Back in Person and Online
Despite the best laid plans to leverage last year’s fully virtual experience and start 2022 with a hybrid in-person and online festival, this winter’s steep Omicron surge found the Sundance Film Festival again pivoting to a mostly virtual format. Once again, film lovers, journalists, and critics will be experience the annual kick-off of independent film festival season mostly from their couches.
Steven Spielberg takes us behind the camera with The Fabelmans
Deploying all of the tricks in his bag to conjure nostalgia and convey awe, upstart auteur Stevie Spielberg has at long last made his very own Licorice Pizza. I kid, but loosely fictionalized filmmaker memoirs are really in the air, aren’t they?
Ana Dumitrascu is outstanding in Romania’s Academy Award submission Immaculate
No one will ever call Immaculate the “feel good movie of the year,” and that’s a good thing. This is a movie full of empathy and anchored by a remarkable performance by a great, young actress.