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Sundance 2021: 10 Films to Stream During the Festival

Usually by this time of year, I’m making last-minute preparations for my annual trip to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. ...
By Brent Hankins4 days ago0
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Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman
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Bart’s Sundance 2020 Review Journal: Part Three

A dark comedy to be sure, Promising Young Woman tells the story of a woman who turns the tables on men who try ...
By Bart CassidaFebruary 7, 20200
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Bart’s Sundance 2020 Review Journal: Part Two

One of the many questions that came out from the tragic events surrounding 9/11 is “what is a life worth?” That was the ...
By Bart CassidaFebruary 5, 20200
Steven Garza appears in Boys State by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine at Sundance 2020
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Bart’s Sundance 2020 Review Journal: Part One

Sundance Film Festival 2020, emanating from snowy Park City, Utah, provided the widest variety films for this year’s adventures. I was able to see ...
By Bart CassidaFebruary 3, 20200
Anne Hathaway in The Last Thing He Wanted
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Sundance 2020 Movie Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’

Three years ago, Dees Rees wowed audiences at the Sundance Film Festival with Mudbound, a haunting examination of racial and familial relations in ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 28, 20200

Sundance 2020 Movie Review: ‘Downhill’

Adrift in the complacency of long-term marriage, Pete (Will Ferrell) and Billie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) embark on a vacation to an upscale European ski ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 28, 20200
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Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman
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Sundance 2020 Movie Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’

Once upon a time, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a med school student at the top of her class, but dropped out after a ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 27, 20200
Taylor Swift, Miss Americana, Sundance 2020
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Sundance 2020: First Wave of Films Announced

We’re just over a month away from the 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, scheduled to take place in Park City, UT ...
By Brent HankinsDecember 4, 20190
Alice Englert in Them That Follow
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Bart’s Sundance 2019 Review Journal: Day Three

My final day at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival was scheduled to be split between two movies at The Ray Theater in Park ...
By Bart CassidaFebruary 8, 20190
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Bart’s Sundance 2019 Review Journal: Day Two

As Day Two of my Sundance adventure started off, promptly at nine in the a.m., I’m not sure I could have predicted the ...
By Bart CassidaFebruary 6, 20190

Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘Big Time Adolescence’

Many of us can recall someone older (and allegedly wiser) telling us that our teenage years would be the best of our lives, ...
By Brent HankinsFebruary 4, 20190
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Bart’s Sundance 2019 Review Journal: Day One

My second adventure at the Sundance Film Festival, held in beautiful Park City, Utah, was a near-perfect film viewing trip. With over 100 films ...
By Bart CassidaFebruary 4, 20190
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Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire’

Stieg Larsson may not quite be a household name, but anyone privileged enough to have read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 26, 20190
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Sundance 2018: A First Time Adventure, Part 3

One of the things that I loved about Sundance, and that really makes it unique, is that there are so many films across ...
By Bart CassidaFebruary 5, 20180
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Sundance 2017 Movie Review: ‘Mudbound’

Based on the Hillary Jordan novel of the same name, Mudbound tells the story of a black family in the Deep South of the ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 23, 20170

Sundance 2017 Movie Review: ‘The Little Hours’

Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours marks the writer-director’s third trip to the Sundance Film Festival, and this 14th-century comedy based – just barely – on ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 21, 20170
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Sundance 2017 Movie Review: ‘Killing Ground’

Premiering in the Midnight category at Sundance, Damien Power’s feature-length debut Killing Ground spins a pair of stories about ill-fated camping trips in the ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 21, 20170
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Sundance 2017 Movie Review: ‘The Incredible Jessica James’

After a four-year stint as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Jessica Williams brings her comedic sensibilities to the big screen as the title ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 21, 20170
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Sundance 2017 Movie Review: ‘Ingrid Goes West’

When we first meet Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza), she’s sitting in her car scrolling through an Instagram feed of someone’s wedding, sobbing uncontrollably as ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 21, 20170
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Sundance 2017 Movie Review: ‘Dayveon’

“Everything is stupid,” 13-year-old Dayveon Buckingham (Devin Blackmon) tells himself as he rides his bicycle along the tree-lined roads of his rural Arkansas ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 20, 20170

2017 Sundance Film Festival Preview

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday, January 19, and once again I’ll be returning to Park City for opening weekend. I had ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 18, 20170
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Sundance 2016 Movie Review: ‘Swiss Army Man’

[Editor’s Note: With Swiss Army Man opening in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, we’re running our original Sundance review again]
By Brent HankinsJune 23, 20161
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Sundance 2016: ‘Operation Avalanche’ Director Matt Johnson on His Unique Creative Process

Back in 2013, writer and director Matt Johnson turned heads at the Slamdance Film Festival with his feature-length debut, The Dirties, which followed ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 27, 20160
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Sundance 2016 Movie Review: ‘Yoga Hosers’

On Sunday night, my first trip to the Sundance Film Festival came to an end with the world premiere of Yoga Hosers, the ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 26, 20160
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Sundance 2016: ‘Sleight’ Director JD Dillard and Producers Talk Magic and Mayhem

One of my favorite selections from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival was Sleight, director JD Dillard’s crowd-pleasing tale about a young street magician ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 26, 20160

Sundance 2016 Movie Review: ‘Goat’

Leaving a party at his brother’s fraternity, Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) reluctantly agrees to offer a ride to a pair of guys who ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 24, 20160
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Sundance 2016 Movie Review: ‘Sleight’

After his mother passes away shortly before the end of his senior year, aspiring street magician Bo (Jacob Latimore) is left as the ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 23, 20160
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Sundance 2016 Movie Review: ‘Operation Avalanche’

The idea that the United States faked the moon landing is one of the most popular and long-lasting conspiracy theories, having been around ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 23, 20160
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Sundance 2016 Movie Review: ‘Belgica’

After making a splash with his Oscar-nominated drama The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgian director Felix van Groeningen was on hand to open the ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 21, 20160
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2016 Sundance Film Festival Preview

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival begins this Thursday, January 21, and we’ll be in Park City to cover opening weekend for the very first ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 18, 20160

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