Sundance 2024

Festival Reviews

Sasquatch Sunset

by Stephen Dalton | Feb 22, 2024 | Berlin 2024, Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Featuring wordless performances by a heavily disguised Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ is a boldly surreal Bigfoot comedy with surprising emotional depth.

A Different Man

by Stephen Dalton | Feb 14, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Aaron Schimberg’s darkly funny body-horror fairy tale ‘A Different Man’ takes a satirical scalpel to the beastliness of beauty.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 23, 2024 | Sundance 2024, Festivals, Spotlight

Johan Grimonprez’s complex, cacophonous ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ is a feat of design, narration, sound, and cinema about an important chapter in Congo’s tragic relationship with the UN, the U.S., and Belgium.

Sebastian

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 23, 2024 | Sundance 2024, Festivals

In ‘Sebastian’, Mikko Mäkelä presents a frank and graphic portrait of a writer as a young sex worker in literary London.

Ama Gloria

by Patricia Boero | Jan 23, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024

An intimate and profound study of a child’s need for maternal love, with outstanding acting from 6-year old Louise Mauroy-Panzani and her nanny, Ilça Moreno Zego.

CineVerdict: Reinas

by Lucy Virgen | Jan 23, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Reinas, dirigida por Klaudia Reynecke es una buena película coming of age que confirma la presencia de una voz con sello propio en el cine latinoamericano

Reinas

by Lucy Virgen | Jan 23, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Reinas, directed by Klaudia Reynicke, is a coming of age film that confirms her unique voice in the Latin American Cinema.

European Creativity Shines at Sundance

by TheFilmVerdict | Jan 22, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024

The Europeans were in form at Sundance, where they showed their first new films of 2024.

Handling The Undead

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 22, 2024 | Sundance 2024, Festivals

Thea Hvistendahl’s half-Stephen King, half-Kafka first feature, ‘Handling the Undead’, is a confident three-pronged narrative on the irreversibility of death.

Ibelin

by Stephen Dalton | Jan 22, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024, Tromsø

Computer games offer a severely disabled young man an emotionally rich alternative life in Norwegian director Benjamin Ree’s moving, visually impressive documentary ‘Ibelin’.

A New Kind of Wilderness

by Max Borg | Jan 21, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024

In a Norwegian doc world premiering at Sundance, a moving family story is occasionally snagged by unconvincing dramatic contrivances.

Eternal You

by Carmen Gray | Jan 21, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Sundance 2024

Facts come with chills in this cautionary doc overview of an ethically thorny new reality: the sale of immortality via AI simulations of the dead.

Veni, Vidi, Vici

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 19, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024

Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann’s ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ is an incredibly clear-eyed take on the absolute power the rich have in a capitalist society.

Sasquatch Sunset

by Stephen Dalton | Feb 22, 2024 | Berlin 2024, Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Featuring wordless performances by a heavily disguised Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ is a boldly surreal Bigfoot comedy with surprising emotional depth.

A Different Man

by Stephen Dalton | Feb 14, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Aaron Schimberg’s darkly funny body-horror fairy tale ‘A Different Man’ takes a satirical scalpel to the beastliness of beauty.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 23, 2024 | Sundance 2024, Festivals, Spotlight

Sebastian

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 23, 2024 | Sundance 2024, Festivals

In ‘Sebastian’, Mikko Mäkelä presents a frank and graphic portrait of a writer as a young sex worker in literary London.

Ama Gloria

by Patricia Boero | Jan 23, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024

An intimate and profound study of a child’s need for maternal love, with outstanding acting from 6-year old Louise Mauroy-Panzani and her nanny, Ilça Moreno Zego.

CineVerdict: Reinas

by Lucy Virgen | Jan 23, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Reinas, dirigida por Klaudia Reynecke es una buena película coming of age que confirma la presencia de una voz con sello propio en el cine latinoamericano

Reinas

by Lucy Virgen | Jan 23, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance 2024

Reinas, directed by Klaudia Reynicke, is a coming of age film that confirms her unique voice in the Latin American Cinema.

European Creativity Shines at Sundance

by TheFilmVerdict | Jan 22, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024

The Europeans were in form at Sundance, where they showed their first new films of 2024.

Handling The Undead

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 22, 2024 | Sundance 2024, Festivals

Thea Hvistendahl’s half-Stephen King, half-Kafka first feature, ‘Handling the Undead’, is a confident three-pronged narrative on the irreversibility of death.

Ibelin

by Stephen Dalton | Jan 22, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024, Tromsø

Computer games offer a severely disabled young man an emotionally rich alternative life in Norwegian director Benjamin Ree’s moving, visually impressive documentary ‘Ibelin’.

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