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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.
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.
The latest Knives Out finds onetime boxer turned small town priest wrapped up in a thorny and inexplicable murder of a controversial Monsignor. A warm embrace in a world of wolves, this third iteration in the ongoing Benoit Blanc series represents a major emotional leap for the franchise while demonstrating its dexterity to reshape itself to meet the the current mood.
It’s been quite a year for films about fathers reckoning with the consequences of having prioritizing careers over family or making art as a balm for old wounds, none yet have come close to holding a candle to the carefully-crafted emotional effectiveness of Joachim Trier’s spectacular Sentimental Value.
Notes from Saturday at Telluride where the festival saw the world premiere of Hamnet and North American premieres of Bugonia and Pillion.
Who was it that said :all unhappy rock stars are alike, no happy rock star has ever truly existed in the history of this earth?” Probably the same esteemed writer who famously pondered “War, what is it good for?”
