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Sundance Film Festival: ‘By Design’ is More Alienating Than Really Intriguing

@Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Selected for the Next platform at the Sundance Film Festival 2025, the fourth feature film directed by Amanda Kramer deals with the human desire to find a deep meaning to life even in a world where everything seems to be shallow, superficial, almost pointless. At the center of By Design…

Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Things You Kill’ Transcends the Genre with Its Powerful Symbolism

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival After participating in the most prestigious European Film festivals like Cannes, Venice and Berlin, the American Iranian author Alireza Khatami lands at the Sundance Film Festival with his latest, stunning feature film. Selected for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, The Things You Kill tells the story of Ali, a college…

Sundance Film Festival: Sugar Babies is a Nuanced Exploration of a Female Influencer’s Social-Economic Identity

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The dedicated obsession many young adults develop to social media and technology isn’t always just a mindless addiction. The new film, Sugar Babies, is both a deeply personal and broadly resonant documentary. Its story offers a poignant commentary on how young adults, through the lens of its protagonist, Autumn Johnson,…

Sundance Film Festival: ‘Sorry, Baby’ is a Moving Debut for Author Eva Victor

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The most difficult challenge that the first-time screenwriter/director/protagonist Eva Victor had to face with Sorry, Baby was certainly to find the difficult, delicate balance between the tones that she wanted to develop through the story. Her feature film starts with the reunion of two college best friends, Agnes (Victor) and…

Sundance Film Festival: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore Powerfully Reflects on the Pioneering Actress

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Nearly 40 years after her groundbreaking breakout film role, for which she was he first deaf performer to win an Oscar, Marlee Matlin’s career and hearing-impaired identity is finally receiving the recognition she deserves. The new documentary, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore shares how the challenges of language deprivation has…

2025 Sundance Recap Pt 2: ‘Brides,’ ‘bunnylovr,’ ‘Love, Brooklyn,’ ‘Bubble & Squeak’

Hopefully, you’ve read and enjoyed the first part of my Sundance wrap-up which included reviews of some of the best things I’ve seen over the past few days of virtual viewing, but not everything at Sundance Film Festival can be wine and roses, and now, here are four reviews of some of the weaker offerings….

Sundance Film Festival: ‘Last Days’ is an Intriguing Story of One Man’s Deadly Quest for Unachievable Salvation

In 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was killed on North Sentinel Island, located off the coast of India and home to a tribe that has had very minimal contact with the outside world. Some described Chau’s death as a tragedy, while others blamed him for breaking the law and attempting to approach a population…

Sundance Review: ‘Two Women’ is an Entertaining Showcase of Two Great Leads

Society has different expectations for men and women, due in large part to millennia of patriarchal systems where women were typically responsible for staying home to take care of the children. In a modern world, mothers can work after giving birth and function similarly to men, but there are still maternal connections that they’ll make…

Sundance Film Festival: ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ is a Surprisingly Interesting Dramatization of a Rather Banal Conversation

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival. In 1974, photographer Peter Hujar sat down with his friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz, to tell her everything he did the day before, part of a planned book by Rosenkrantz speaking with all her well-connected friends about their daily lives. The book didn’t end up happening and apparently the tape of…

Sundance Film Festival: ‘LUZ’ is a Visually Hypnotic Tale About Our Disconnected World

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Twelve years after her first-feature film bends, the director Flora Lau brought at the Sundance Film Festival – World Cinema Dramatic Competition – LUZ, another psychological drama set in Chongqing and Paris. The main story follows two completely different people: Wei (Xiadong Guo) is trying to reconnect with the daughter…

Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Recounts the Consequences of Self-Defense Legislation

©Sundance Film Festival Police procedurals have long garnered attention and intrigue among audiences for the extreme measures characters take to protect the way of existence they have grown accustomed to – or feel entitled to – in their lives. The new documentary, The Perfect Neighbor explores the extreme measures some people, including Marion County resident…