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Sundance Review: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a Profoundly Stunning, Impressionistic Voyage of Time

Raven Jackson’s directorial debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a distillation of cinema to its purest form, a stunning patchwork of experience and memory. D...

Sundance Review: Passages is a Radiantly Sexual Exploration of the Thorniness of Love

Taking the Scorsese wisdom of “more than 90% of directing a picture is the right casting” to heart, Ira Sachs’ radiantly sexual three-hander Passages couldn’t ...

Sundance Review: Cat Person Loses Nuance in Misguided Expansion of the Viral Short Story

The talk of the internet in late 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker story about a date gone horribly awry lit a short-lived fire of discourse surrounding gen...

Sundance Review: Other People’s Children is Rooted in an Affecting Reality

Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, the French drama Other People’s Children has a simple plot linked with complex ideas. Following Rachel (Virginie Efira), a 40-ye...

Sundance Review: The Tuba Thieves Reframes Deafness in Meditative, Convention-Defying Ways

A film that rewards patience, The Tuba Thieves, despite its title, is not a quirky heist picture but rather a meditation on the presence and absence of sound f...

Sundance Review: The Pod Generation is a Sharp, Futuristic Relationship Satire

A sharp relationship satire that proves the more things change, the more they stay the same, Sophie Barthes' The Pod Generation imagines a world of, to borrow ...

Sundance Review: To Live and Die and Live Captures a New Detroit with Old Detroit’s Problems

A film as convoluted as its title, To Live and Die and Live is a poetic exploration of a new Detroit facing the same problems as the old one. Rust Belt cities ...

Sundance Review: Flora and Son is Another Winsome Musical from John Carney

The career of Once and Sing Street director John Carney is a curious one, reiterating the same theme in each of his most notable movies: the power of music to ...

Sundance Review: Landscape with Invisible Hand Juggles Many Ideas with Little Wisdom

For the last seven decades, aliens have been observing humanity, waiting for the right moment to touch down. When they finally do, after the world’s best milit...

Sundance Review: The Deepest Breath Plummets to Obsessive Depths of Freediving

From the very beginning of The Deepest Breath, you know exactly what kind of documentary you’re in for. In the back of a car, director Laura McGann aims her ca...

News

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Trailers

New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Time of the Heathen Captures a World After the Atomic Bomb

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Reviews

Challengers Review: Non-Stop Lurid Entertainment Rides the Charisma of Its Stars

Omen Review: An Assured Debut That Never Falters in Ambition or Surprise

The People’s Joker Review: Superhero-Skewering Satire is Miraculous in Multiple Ways

Features

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Interviews

Frederick Elmes on John Cassavetes’ Infectious Confidence, Imitating Sven Nykvist, and Ang Lee’s Hulk

Becoming the Beast: George MacKay on Fighting for Bertrand Bonello’s Film, Learning French, and Modern Incel Culture

“I’m Not an Actor”: Léa Seydoux on Her Creative Self and False Public Perception

Podcasts

The B-Side – Robert Redford (with Blake Howard)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 534 – Monkey Man (with Jenny Nulf)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Larry Fessenden

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