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Sundance 2024 Review: Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla

“I wanted to create a narrative that celebrated queer life, particularly queer Arab life, with unapologetic joy and tenacity.”  These are the words director Amrou Al-Kadhi used to describe their debut feature film,...

Sundance 2024 Film Review: Sujo (Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize)

Building on their excellent, award-winning feature Sin señales particulares (Identifying Features), from 2020, Mexican filmmakers Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero return to Sundance this year with Sujo, the tale of a young...

Sundance Film Festival 2024: Frida Takes Documentary to New Heights

In college, one of my required readings was an illustrated volume by Lauren Redniss, which detailed the biographical details and discoveries of Marie and Pierre Curie. The book was a fascinating portrait...

Sundance 2024: Kneecap Celebrates Native Irish Language, the Culture and the Women Who Preserve It

Irish-Language hip hop trio Kneecap took Sundance by storm in their debut, self-titled film, and reveled in celebrating their heritage.  Director Rich Peppiatt was inspired to tell the story of riotous hip-hop trio...

Sundance 2024 Film Review: Ghostlight

A performance in celebration of performance itself, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s Ghostlight explores the power of theater as a tool for therapy, connection and self-discovery.  "Ghostlight centers on Dan (Keith Kupferer), a...

Sundance 2024 Film Review: It’s What’s Inside

What interested me most in the first 20 minutes of Greg Jardin’s noisome bro-mean girl-sci-fi-freakout It’s What’s Inside, was the rather ingenious and layered moment in which the film’s nominal heroine, Shelby,...

Sundance 2024 Film Review: I Saw The TV Glow

About 30 seconds before I Saw the TV Glow ended, I thought “Wouldn’t it be hilarious if they just ended the movie here?” And then they did. My partner leaned over to...

Sundance Weekend One Recap: Celebrity Sightings, Panel Takeaways and More 

The 40th edition of Sundance Film Festival kicked off on January 18th. The beloved cinematic event seemed to be at its full strength following years of pandemic-induced adjustments and cancellations. Last year,...