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Friday evening at the Sundance Film Festival saw the world premiere of “Justice,” a furious and enraging documentary that will change how we talk about the sexual allegations made public against Brett Kavanaugh back in 2018. Director Doug Liman’s debut as a documentarian owes a great deal to the style and approach of filmmakers Kirby Dick […]

The following table of contents features all of the alphabetized review dispatches filed at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival penned by Brian Tallerico, Nick Allen, Robert Daniels and Marya E. Gates. “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World” by Robert Daniels “birth/rebirth” by Brian Tallerico “Cat Person” by Brian Tallerico “Fair Play” by Brian Tallerico

It almost feels like ticket buyers should have to prove that they’ve seen Brandon Cronenberg‘s “Possessor” before being allowed admittance to his newest film, “Infinity Pool.” That way, they know what they’re in for. Once again, the increasingly impressive son of David Cronenberg has made a wildly surreal, unapologetic, violent, and pornographic movie about privilege,

In the early weeks of its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation claimed that it would not be attacking civilians. We know this to be not true, especially in the city of Mariupol, because of what Associated Press correspondents like filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, field producer Vasilia Stepanenko, and still photographer Evgeniy Maloteka captured while trying

Film is inherently a lens utilized to see the world. How we see the events happening around us, ultimately bending, distorting, and reporting their significance, is what makes the cinematic language not just one of sound and moving images but one that forces us to question our interpretation of the thoughts, feelings, and memories we

In the World Documentary Competition, three films center on cultures in flux. In Sarvnik Kaur’s ecological plea “Against the Tide” two fishermen from Bombay feel the tension of tradition versus modernity as overfishing threatens their way of life. In Anna Hints’ “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” the cleansing power of Estonian sauna culture coupled with a sense

In a 2015 interview with the Paris Review, editor Gordon Lish was asked many questions about his controversial working relationship with Raymond Carver, one of the most famous in the editor-writer-relationship canon. Lish used a heavy hand on Carver’s prose, slashing away at the text to create the “minimalism” for which Carver became famous. The

In Marc Forster’s genial, earnest yet unremarkable dramedy “A Man Called Otto,” the titular character Otto can’t pick his daily battles even if his life depended on it. Living in an unfussy suburban neighborhood of identical row houses somewhere in the Midwest, the aging man gets easily annoyed by every little misstep of a stranger.

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As a companion to our beloved feature on great performances, we asked our writers this year to pick out any non-acting element of the year they wanted to highlight. It could be editing, costume design, score, etc. And the responses were fantastic, assembled in the feature below. Again, this is not meant to be comprehensive.