Ejiofor Shines In Effective Sci-Fi Satire [Sundance]

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Ejiofor Shines In Effective Sci-Fi Satire [Sundance]

Home Movie Reviews The Pod Generation Review: Ejiofor Shines In Effective Sci-Fi Satire [Sundance] A good balance of emotional impact and humor, The Pod Generation warrants considerable discussion about the road to parenthood. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig, and Emilia Clarke…

A Show-Stopping Cate Blanchett Powerhouse

With awards season fast approaching Nick Clement brings us his Tár review. Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. When all elements seem to conspire against her, Lydia’s adopted daughter Petra…

Wrap Me in a Sheet

Co-writers/co-directors/stars Britt Harris and Molly Muse’s quirky short, Wrap Me in a Sheet, tells the story of the bond between two sisters. I say quirky because the drama starts in the past with a young girl opening her mother’s music box…

Maite Alberdi’s Moving Doc Is A Love Story About The Trauma Of Remembering & The Decay Of Memory [Sundance]

It’s challenging and/or impossible to speak about Chilean art and disassociate it from Chilean politics— the two are forever tragically intertwined, bonded together by trauma in a way that few modern countries have experienced. Because Chile suffered a collective social…

French Courtroom Drama Requires Your Full Attention

The central aspect of French filmmaker Alice Diop's fiction-feature debut, Saint Omer, is an unfathomable crime: A mother left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to be swept out to sea, resulting in her death. It is inspired by a…

The Founder Of Video Art Gets A Documentary That is Never As Radical As Its Subject [Sundance]

The avant-garde video artist Nam June Paik gets his own adulatory portrait in Amanda Kim’s documentary “Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV.” An act of biographical recovery that also, somehow, flattens a controversial artist, Kim’s film provides just enough contextual information…

Arjun | Film Threat

Tensions are high along the border of India and Pakistan. It’s been that way for a long time. In director Jaiveer Bhatia’s action film, Arjun, one wonders what lengths a soldier will take to ensure victory for his homeland. The…

24 Stressful Hours In The Day Of A Trans Man

PARK CITY – After almost 40 years, there are actually few subjects in the LGBTQ community the Sundance Film Festival hasn’t put a spotlight on. The fact that Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s “Mutt,” a rare non-coming-out story about a trans man, is…

Maddening & Promising All At Once

Home Movie Reviews When You Finish Saving The World Review: Maddening & Promising All At Once When You Finish Saving the World is filled with interesting ideas and scenes, yet is hindered by character development that feels incomplete. Finn Wolfhard and…

Docuseries Mistakes The Comprehensive For the Essential In Well-Meaning Slog [Sundance]

Caught somewhere between a movie and a series, “Willie Nelson & Family” doubles down on the history and mythology of its namesake to stretch the latter into what would have been better served as the former. Honest, introspective, yet rarely…

Wolf Hollow | Film Threat

A pack of werewolves, a pair of Pennsatucky brothers, and a film crew scouting locations; these groups find themselves interacting violently in Mark Cantu’s Wolf Hollow. A hyper-violent adrenaline rush, this horror picture is an excellent example of the lack of…

Black Motherhood And Harlem Take Centerstage In A.V. Rockwell’s Handsome Debut [Sundance]

In writer/director A.V. Rockwell’s feature directorial debut, “A Thousand and One,” Inez (a deeply felt Teyana Talyor) has returned to Harlem after spending a year in Rikers Prison. The year is 1994, and Harlem is still bustling with its own…

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