Beasts of the Southern Wild is a beautiful fairy tale about survivor’s guilt.
Shut Up and Play the Hits dances around the fact that LCD Soundsytem was essentially a solo act.
With Ascher’s fantastic hoot of a movie, this year’s omnipresent Sundance tagline (“Look Again”) has finally lived up to its promise.
It’s refreshing to see The Sessions unostentatiously treat intercourse as a normal need that most people counterintuitively associate with taboos.
When it comes to Julie Delpy, the key question remains the old Barbra Streisand one.
Keep the Lights On explores the ways in which one lover’s drug abuse steadily undermines a couple’s mutual trust.
Côté’s images ostensibly detached, they somehow manage to be beautiful without ever becoming particularly pleasant to look at.
It takes a little time to get used to the sprawling scope and the blocky dialogue of Red Hook Summer.
Jarecki’s new documentary is a rousingly aching piece of social analysis and commentary.
Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity.
Simon Killer feels both carefully studied and willfully unfocused.
Sundance Film Festival 2012: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and Celeste and Jesse Forever
Illogical and proudly crude plot developments are par for the course in Billion Dollar Movie.
In a sense, the posters are highly successful, as they very accurately communicate the text, weaknesses and all.
An appealing little oddball of a movie, Septien is ironic yet genuinely sweet.
It resolves its thicket of mature moral questions in the most glib and banal means possible.
The film finds Joe Swanberg plumbing the same tired issues, albeit from a slightly older perspective.