Roger Ebert Reviews

The World Cinema Dramatic program of Sundance often leaves a bit to be desired as it feels like accomplished international cinema waits for Berlin, Rotterdam, or Cannes in the first half of the year. This is not to say that there’s never anything of value in this program, but the truth is that Sundance remains […]

The non-fiction portion of the Sundance Film Festival is one of the most acclaimed programs in the world. This year’s produced highly buzzed projects like “The Perfect Neighbor” and “Zodiac Killer Project,” but nothing’s perfect. There are always a few docs at Sundance that could be called well-intentioned but formally unengaging. That’s the polite way

Unlike the rest of the dispatches I’ve written out of Sundance, the selections here are not defined by their competitive category. This one is a little bit more of a hodgepodge. “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)” and “DJ Ahmet,” for instance, are from the World Dramatic section, while “André Is an Idiot” premiered as part of

Find below links to all of our coverage of this year’s Sundance, broken out by program. The reviews are written by Brian Tallerico, Robert Daniels, Marya E. Gates, Zachary Lee, Monica Castillo, and Cristina Escobar. (Note: If a link isn’t active yet, the review is still forthcoming.) Eva Victor appears in Sorry, Baby by Eva

The phrase “the personal is political” remains as true today as it did in its heyday. The statement from the second feminist wave of the 1960s highlights how incorrectly labeled “personal” problems may be traced to a political source. Many recent documentaries are making those connections, showing how politics has shaped people’s lives in both

Although the narrative features have left something to be desired, consistently Sundance delivers on the documentary front (some of 2024’s most acclaimed documentaries such as “Daughters,” “Black Box Diaries” and “Union” all premiered at last year’s festival). I’ve already named three docs that are worth checking out scattered all across the other categories, but this

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At first, I bundled these three films together under a thin umbrella of stories of crime and criminals, but the good news is that there is something deeper here in that they’re all projects that actually share a much richer commonality: Brave new ways to tell stories of violence. One is told almost entirely in

The two best films I saw at Sundance, and what will be two of the best films of 2025, couldn’t be more different, an invigorating reminder of the breadth of cinema at one of the most important film festivals in the world. The image of the train in Clint Bentley’s magical “Train Dreams” is weighted

The NEXT category at Sundance is always the place to go if you want to see a big swing, and in this dispatch, there are three major ones. Two of the films take different routes to analyze men battling their anxiety about their impending fatherhood. One film is a modern adaptation of Dante’s Inferno. So,