{"id":28611,"date":"2025-02-01T21:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T02:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=28611"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:31:08","slug":"2025-sundance-recap-atropia-ricky-train-dreams-east-of-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=28611","title":{"rendered":"2025 Sundance Recap Pt 1: ‘Atropia,’ ‘Andr\u00e9 is an Idiot,’ \u2018Ricky,\u2019 \u2018East of Wall,\u2019 \u2019Train Dreams’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival<\/a> will be wrapping up this weekend, although for those of us covering it virtually, we\u2019ve gotten a bit of a late start. There have been quite a few themes with the movies at this year\u2019s festival, including many films written and directed by actors starring in their own films, as well as weaker Sundancey movies produced by actors in the movie.<\/p>\n

And yet, there have been quite a few exceptions, and\u00a0in Part 1 in this recap, I\u2019ll discuss some of the better films I\u2019ve seen, mostly virtually, including three of the Audience Award winners, and then, in Part 2 I will focus on the movies that I didn\u2019t like nearly as much.<\/p>\n

ATROPIA<\/b>
\n<\/b>Directed by Hailey Gates<\/b><\/p>\n

Hailey Gates\u2019 Atropia <\/b><\/em>was one of the in-demand movies to watch in the U.S. Narrative Competition, and it ended up paying off by winning the Jury Prize<\/a> in that category. Atropia<\/b><\/em> hasn\u2019t been picked up for distribution, but hopefully that will change very soon.<\/p>\n

Set in 2006 during the Bush era when troops were still stationed in Iraq, it establishes the idea of an enhanced war game in a fictitious country called Atropia that\u2019s entirely built within a Fort Irwin location referred to by the millitary as \u201cThe Box.\u201d Actors from the nearby Hollywood play villagers and insurgents with Alia Shawkat from \u201cArrested Development\u201d as Rose, who takes her acting job quite seriously. Obviously, she\u2019d rather be acting in movies but while on this job, she meets an actual soldier back from Iraq, played by Callum Turner, who is portraying an insurgent leader, and the two begin an illicit romance that continues once they\u2019re taken as POWs.<\/p>\n

Atropia<\/strong> <\/em>opens like an actual Iraq war movie until we learn that this is actualy a simulation and learn more about how Atropia works, and we meet Rose, who is a lot like your typical Hollywood actor, very competitive and always looking for her next job. That\u2019s actually a pretty good set-up for comedy with the added bonus of the meet-cute between Rose and her love interest.<\/p>\n

There are other actors doing fun stuff like Jane Levy playing Nancy, an actor portraying an embedded journalist, while Chloe Sevigny also has a fun smaller role as the director of the program. Channing Tatum also makes a funny cameo as himself. Some of the humor is a bit scatalogical involving bodily functions, but there are other amusing bits like a private with an iPod strapped to his head who is forced to sing songs to entertain the troops.<\/p>\n

Gates, an actress herself \u2013 maybe you remember her from a small role in Challengers <\/i><\/b>– has created an effective comedy that\u2019s just as much about Hollywood tropes as it is a comedy about war. In some ways, it reminded me of David O. Russell\u2019s early film, Three Kings<\/em> <\/b>or Ben Stiller’s Tropical Thunder<\/strong><\/em>, even though obviously, this one never sets foot outside California, and it’s based on an actual military training base.<\/p>\n

Atropia<\/b><\/em> is a clever and satisfying comedy that mixes elements that might never normally be in the same movie. It\u2019s a great showcase for the very funny and talented Ms. Shawkat to shine not just with the comedy but also with the more dramatic moments of the difficult romance she forms with Turner. This was a real standout of this year\u2019s Sundance, like the quality of film we\u2019ve seen in past years, and one well worthy of the jury prize. Who knew that a movie about such a serious subject could be so funny?<\/p>\n

Rating: <\/b>A-<\/p>\n

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Courtesy A24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ANDR\u00c9 IS AN IDIOT
\n<\/b>Directed by Tony Benna<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing the Sundance Film Festival can always deliver with any certainty is that it offers some of the best documentaries each and every year. That\u2019s particularly true with this offering from A24 that follows the journey of ad man Andr\u00e9 Ricciardi, as he faces the repercussions of colon cancer.<\/p>\n

Directed by Tony Benna, the film\u2019s title comes from the fact that Andr\u00e9 had been urged to get a colonoscopy but he reneged, so when he\u2019s diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, it\u2019s too late to do anything except try to keep comfortable and get the needed treatment to keep him around as long as possible. Ricciardi is quite an eccentric character who speaks his mind and does everything just a little differently from anyone else, his charm really driving the film.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the filmmaking reminded me of the late Morgan Spurlock in the way we follow Ricciardi\u2019s journey, something he handles with wit. At one point, Ricciardi uses his advertising background to create a campaign to urge people to get colonoscopies, since the very thought of anything related to the colon and what\u2019s involved tends to elicit snickers despite the seriousness of terminal cancer.<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 is an Idiot <\/b><\/em>won a number of prizes at Sundance, including the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition, as well as a jury award for its editing. This isn\u2019t particularly surprising since it is an entertaining, crowd-pleasing film that probably would work well theatrically.<\/p>\n

Rating: <\/b>A-<\/p>\n

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Stephan James in Ricky (courtesy Sundance Institute) – photo by Sam Motamedi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RICKY
\n<\/b>Directed by Rashad Frett<\/p>\n

Stephan James from If Beale Street Could Talk<\/i><\/b> plays Ricardo \u201cRicky\u201d Smith, a 30-year-old trying to get his life back together after being incarcerated as a teenager and imprisoned for 15 years. Rasha Frett directs the film based on an earlier short and with a script he co-wrote with Lin Que Ayoung. It follows Ricardo as he interacts with various people in his neighborhood and tries to stay out of trouble despite being surrounded by it.<\/p>\n

I was particularly interested in this one as someone who has had friends who were incarcerated and also as someone who was a fan of Sing Sing<\/i><\/b> and always wondered what happened to that film\u2019s characters once they were released. It\u2019s something that few people may realize makes life outside prison even more difficult once released.<\/p>\n

At first, it doesn\u2019t seem like the best script, since there isn\u2019t much story at first, but then a lot of stuff happens to Ricky, and that\u2019s when things get more interesting. The hard truth is that whenever someone spends any amount of time in jail, it\u2019s hard to return to any sort of normal life. Ricky is trying his best, but he\u2019s still angry about losing half his life, and any attempts he make to find and keep a job and have any sort of romantic relationship is plagued by reality.<\/p>\n

Frett, who comes from a background directing shorts, fills this feature-length version of Ricky<\/i><\/b> with so many different characters from his immediate family to his childhood friend (Sean Nelson) who escaped imprisonment. All the time, Ricky tries to connect with a couple women, including Andrene Ward-Hammond as Cheryl, another former inmate he meets in a support group, but that also is quickly derailed. One of the stronger supporting performances comes from Cheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary<\/i><\/b>) as Ricky\u2019s parole officer, and she has some of the best scenes with James and others.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of characters and a lot happens to Ricky that makes his quest to find a normal life more difficult. At times, the drama goes too far with too much conflict being piled on to Ricky\u2019s already difficult life, but it always feels quite real. My biggest issue with the film is the shaky camerawork and choppy editing, both which tend to distract from the storytelling and the performances.<\/p>\n

That aside, Frett brings an authenticity to the film that\u2019s held down by Stephen James\u2019 performance and a supporting cast that helps drive home the point that being out of prison can be just as hard as being inside, and happy pat endings are hard to come by.<\/p>\n

Rating: <\/b>B+<\/p>\n

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Tabatha Zimiga in East of Wall (Sundance Institute)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EAST OF WALL
\n<\/b>Directed by Kate Beecroft<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen so many indie movies set in the world of horse ranching I\u2019d need both hands and one foot to keep track of them all. There are many good ones for sure \u2013 Chloe Zhao\u2019s The Rider<\/i><\/b> literally put her on the map \u2013 but it feels like territory that\u2019s been so well-covered that one wonders why this one needs to be seen.<\/p>\n

This is the feature directorial debut from Kate Beecroft, and it\u2019s hard to imagine that The Rider<\/i><\/b> wasn\u2019t the blueprint for making the film as it feels almost like a docudrama, mixing real people aka non-actors with fictionalized storytelling. It\u2019s sometimes hard to determine which is which.<\/p>\n

Tabatha Zimiga is an edgy and rebellious horse trainer covered in tattoos with one side of her head shaved. She\u2019s been dealing with financial issues after the death of her husband and is trying to keep a group of equally troubled teens safe under her wing on her Badlands, South Dakota ranch.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a film that you might find yourself enjoying more as it goes along, between the horseriding and\u00a0 the beautiful scenery, and eventually, better-known actors like Scoot McNairy and Jennifer Ehle show up in the film and begin interacting quite fluidly with the non-actors, which is an interesting take on the type of film we\u2019ve seen at many festivals over the years.<\/p>\n

Not all the interactions work or are particularly interesting, but as a whole, it\u2019s a film about real people and life unlike some of the other films involving horses. One of the film\u2019s strongest scenes involves a group of Tabitha\u2019s older women friends discussing some of the trauma they\u2019ve suffered, and Zimiga delivers a tearful monologue about how her husband died that further breaks down the wall of real life and dramatization.<\/p>\n

East of Wall<\/i><\/b> is one of this festival\u2019s more pleasant surprises, firstly due to the real discovery that is Tabatha Zimiga, but also how Beecroft is able to take seemingly mundane things from real peoples\u2019 lives and instill them with drama. Some might feel like it doesn\u2019t add much to an overused oeuvre of low-budget indie films about horse people, but it\u2019s a world that continues to offer interesting characters whom those of us cities don\u2019t get to meet very much. It isn\u2019t a shocker that this won the Audience Award in the Next category.<\/p>\n

Rating: <\/b>B+<\/p>\n

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Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones in Train Dreams (Netflix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TRAIN DREAMS
\n<\/b>Directed by Clint Bentley<\/p>\n

Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, the filmmakers behind Sing Sing<\/i><\/b> and Jockey<\/i><\/b>, showed up at Sundance with a very different type of film, one that caught the eye of Netflix to become the second major acquisition of the festival. It\u2019s based on the 2011 book by Denis Johnson, and it feels like a much bigger movie than we normally get at the festival.<\/p>\n

Set in the early 20th Century, Joel Edgerton plays Robert Grainier, a day worker who travels around the country doing logging jobs and helping to build railroads and bridges, while dealing with things that life throw his way. After meeting Felicity Jones\u2019 Gladys and the two of them settling down to have a life, he goes off to do another job, only to return as a wild fire destroys his home \u2013 a terrific setpiece but one that\u2019s hard to watch in the shadow of the fires in L.A. From then on, Robert is plagued by the fact that his wife and young daughter seemed to die in that fire.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard not to think of the Oscar-nominated The Brutalist<\/i><\/b>, not just due to the presence of Felicity Jones, but by the fact that it covers decades within the life of a fictitious character, and it very much feels like a literary piece based on a novel. Over the course of his life\u2019s journey, Robert meets and interacts with a number of very different people, allowing the filmmakers to surround Edgerton with an impressive supporting cast, including William H. Macy, Oscar-nominee Kerry Condon, and reuniting with Clifton Collins Jr. from Jockey<\/i><\/b>. Few of these other characters appear for more than a scene or two, since it\u2019s always about Robert.<\/p>\n

The film covers decades in Robert\u2019s life, all of it narrated by a mystery narrator and ensconced in a gorgeous score by Bryce Dessner of the National, one of the most pleasant original scores I\u2019ve heard in recent memory. The equally brilliant cinematography by Adolpho Veloso really brings so much to the film\u2019s production values.<\/p>\n

In many ways, Train Dreams<\/b> is a much bigger film than we normally see at Sundance with more name stars, but it’s also a quiet and subdued film, sometimes to a fault. It seems like the type of film that really should be seen on the big screen, so hopefully Netflix will try to give it more of a theatrical release than some of their other offerings. Train Dreams<\/b> is a gorgeous film that\u2019s just a little too slow and talkie with minimal plot developments, yet ultimately, it’s still a very well-made film with minor awards potential.<\/p>\n

Rating: <\/b>B+<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have Part 2 of this Sundance recap, as well as more reviews from other Cinema Daily US <\/i>writers over the next couple days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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