Sundance 2018

Review: Hereditary

Posted 8 years ago

This review was originally featured in our Sundance 2018 coverage PLOT: A seemingly happy family is un-moored by a tragedy, but dark forces are at work that put their very souls in jeopardy. REVIEW: Watching HEREDITARY will no doubt be...

Review: American Animals

Posted 8 years ago

This review was originally part of our Sundance 2018 coverage PLOT: The true story of the “Transy Book Heist”, where four Lexington, Kentucky university student stole rare books worth millions from their own college library. REVIEW: AMERICAN ANIMALS marks the...

Review: Tully

Posted 8 years ago

Originally reviewed at Sundance 2018. PLOT: After giving birth to her third child, an overwhelmed mother, Marlo (Charlize Theron), is gifted a night nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis) by her rich brother (Mark Duplass). The two women soon find they...

Review: Beirut

Posted 8 years ago

Originally reviewed at Sundance 2018.  PLOT: Ten years after losing his wife in a terrorist attack, a conflict resolution specialist (Jon Hamm) is called back to his former post in Beirut to assist in negotiations when a CIA agent is...

Review: You Were Never Really Here

Posted 8 years ago

Originally reviewed for Sundance 2018 PLOT: A brutal hired gun (Joaquin Phoenix) tries to save a young girl from a pedophile ring. REVIEW: If YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE had come out in 2017, the best actor Oscar race would...

Sundance 2018 wrap-up!

Posted 8 years ago

I can’t believe it’s already over! It felt like just yesterday I was writing about how excited I was to be covering the Sundance Film Festival for my eighth year, but, over twenty reviews later, it’s in the books. Overall,...

Review: Ophelia (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as re-imagined from the perspective of his lover, Ophelia (Daisy Ridley). REVIEW: OPHELIA is the worst thing to happen to Shakespeare since Roland Emmerich’s Oxfordian theory film, ANONYMOUS. However well-intentioned it may be, it plays like some...

Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbour (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The life and career of beloved children’s entertainer Fred Rogers, from his humble beginnings as a seminary student, to his eventual iconic rise as the star of “Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood.” REVIEW: To those of us of a certain age,...

Assassination Nation (Sundance Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The citizens of a small town collectively lose their minds after a hacker leaks all their cell-phone data online. Desperate, fourteen girls become the target of the enraged town due to flimsy evidence linking them to the crime. REVIEW:...

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