“Kokomo City,” an award-winning documentary from the festival’s NEXT section pulls off an impressive feat in getting us to better understand the…
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Trauma has long been a theme of independent cinema—it doesn’t cost a lot of money to tell stories of human…
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Director Michael Jacobs, now 67 years old, adapted his 1978 play for “Maybe I Do.” The title’s contradiction between the tentative…
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It is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of Catherine Stovall this past Tuesday, January 24th, at…
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“Close,” about two small-town Belgian boys who are as tight as brothers, is a devastating movie. But to what end? I can’t…
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It wouldn’t be Sundance without a half-dozen or so profile docs. It’s a form of non-fiction filmmaking that often drives…
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“Shortcomings” is an amiable comedy about an asshole, as directed by someone who has built an on-screen reputation of being…
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Maryam Kesharvarz’s “The Persian Version” is an ebullient rule-breaker, and it does so in the name of the many women…
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Famous faces pop up in three very different films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, all of them doing their…
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Three films found in this year’s World Dramatic Competition find themselves examining interpersonal relationships through very distinct means. In Marija…
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