Sundance Film Festival
‘Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat’ Review: Kinetic Doc Connects Jazz, Decolonization and the Birth of the United Nations
Johan Grimonprez delves into Belgium's past to investigate the plot against Congolese independence.
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Focus Features Lands Sundance Coming-of-Age Movie ‘Didi’
Focus Features had landed the worldwide rights to Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut Dídi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is set in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area and, according to the film’s logline, follows an “impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t […]
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‘Porcelain War’ Review: Intimate Reflection on Making Art in Wartime Ukraine Is Beautiful but Frustrating
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance with this look at the difficulty and necessity of producing art in times of conflict.
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‘Reinas’ Review: An Understated Portrait of a Peruvian Family Navigating Political Turmoil
In Klaudia Reynicke's third feature, a father reconnects with his daughters during a tumultuous summer in Lima.
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‘Ponyboi’ Review: River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien Star in a Sexy, Sweaty New Jersey Fever Dream
The intersex actor and the 'Maze Runner' star play a sex worker and a goofy gangster, respectively, in a crime drama directed by Esteban Arango.
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‘Power’ Review: Yance Ford’s Smart and Searing Documentary on Policing in America
The essay-like Netflix film from the 'Strong Island' director delves into the origins and implications of modern police violence in the United States.
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‘Every Little Thing’ Review: A Stunning Up-Close Portrait of a Hummingbird Rescuer and Her Tiny Patients
Inspired by Terry Masear’s book about her work with the world's smallest birds, Sally Aitken’s documentary follows her during a busy caretaking season in Los Angeles.
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‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Review: A Distinctive Drama About Fraught Mother-Daughter Relationships
In Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, a mother's intervention in her teenage daughter's budding romance creates an unexpected emotional love triangle.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2024
Steven Soderbergh’s haunted-house movie, new films starring Kieran Culkin and Aubrey Plaza, and docs about Christopher Reeve, unionizing Amazon workers, and Argentinian cowboys are among THR critics’ favorites from the festival.
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‘Little Death’ Review: David Schwimmer in a Darren Aronofsky-Produced Film That Trips Over Its Own Ambitions
Talia Ryder and Dominic Fike co-star in Jack Begert's satire about thwarted ambition and stolen goods.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor Talks “The Connection to Community” In His Sophomore Sundance Feature ‘Rob Peace’
Five years after he made his directorial debut at Sundance, actor and filmmaker Chiwetel Ejiofor returned to the fest Monday with his sophomore feature, Rob Peace. The film is based on Jeff Hobbs’ 2014 book The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace and tells the true story of a Peace, who grew up in […]
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‘It’s What’s Inside’ Review: A High-Concept Mind-Bender With Style to Burn, if Not Substance
Netflix made the largest acquisition out of Sundance 2024, paying $17 million for Greg Jardin’s psychological thriller about a reunited group of college friends and a party game gone wrong.
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