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Review: Wounds (Sundance)

PLOT: Will (Armie Hammer), a New Orleans bartender, witnesses an act of violence that sends him down a rabbit hole of discovery, putting his very sanity, and that of his girlfriend, Carrie (Dakota Johnson), on the line. REVIEW: WOUNDS, which...

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The Nightingale (Sundance Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: In 1820’s Tasmania, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict working as an indentured servant to an army officer (Sam Claflin), eagerly awaits the day her sentence will be over, and she’ll be able to start over with her husband and...

Review: I Am Mother

Posted 7 years ago

This review originally appeared as part of our Sundance 2019 coverage PLOT: After an extinction event wipes out mankind and leaves the earth a desolate wasteland, a robot (voiced by Rose Byrne) running a vast underground laboratory with sixty-five thousand...

Review: Velvet Buzzsaw (Sundance)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A pompous critic (Jake Gyllenhaal), an art dealer (Rene Russo) and her ambitious assistant (Zawe Ashton) profit from the work of a deceased artist, but their success comes at a high price. REVIEW: VELVET BUZZSAW is nothing if not...

Velvet Buzzsaw (Sundance Movie Review)

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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Sundance Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Single mom Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins) is swept off her feet by a handsome, charismatic stranger (Zac Efron), only to be shocked when he’s arrested in connection with several murders. His name: Ted Bundy. REVIEW: People can’t help but...

Review: Late Night (Sundance)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An acerbic English talk show host (Emma Thompson) with waning popularity, tries to revamp her image by hiring a female writer (Mindy Kaling) with little experience but a strong take on what the show could become. REVIEW: At a...

Review: After the Wedding (Sundance)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Isabel (Michelle Williams) manages a struggling orphanage in India, which is in desperate need of a cash endowment offered by a multimedia magnate, Theresa (Julianne Moore). The one condition is that Isabel must return to New York for an...

Review: Native Son (Sundance)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Bigger Thomas (Ashton Saunders), a young African-American man living with his family in inner-city Chicago, gets a job as a chauffeur for a rich white family – an opportunity that at first seems heaven sent. Alas, fate has other...