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Philadelphia Film Festival: Train Dreams’ Joel Edgerton Anchors a Soulful Portrait of a Life Shaped by Fate

©Courtesy of Netflix The most masterful study of a man’s seemingly simplistic life tries to make sense of the underlying tragic and fateful circumstances he has long faced. Instead of placing blame for his difficult situations on others, he accepts his life’s mystery with a hard-earned grace. Joel Edgerton’s protagonist of Robert Grainier in the…

2025 Sundance Recap Pt 1: ‘Atropia,’ ‘André is an Idiot,’ ‘Ricky,’ ‘East of Wall,’ ’Train Dreams’

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will be wrapping up this weekend, although for those of us covering it virtually, we’ve gotten a bit of a late start. There have been quite a few themes with the movies at this year’s festival, including many films written and directed by actors starring in their own films, as…