Sundance Rocks the 90s
For our at-home critic, a festival of Gen-X music nostalgia
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Author: Sara Stewart
Sundance Is Virtually Inaccessible
If you don’t have the financial resources or the physical stamina, suddenly it’s very hard to see movies at Sundance…again
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Some Ado About Something
‘Anyone But You’ breathes a little life into the stale rom-com genre
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The Top 10 Films of 2023
A great year for sticking it to the man
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Coal Miner’s ‘Hunger Games’
An effective and affecting prequel with a folk-rock soundtrack
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Hotel Hell
Tourist bartenders face a familiar menace in ‘The Royal Hotel’
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Blood For Oil
Indie thriller ‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’ sets a high bar for eco-activist cinema
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Documentaries Dominated at Sundance Again
Shere Hite, Brooke Shields, and Judy Blume all feature in excellent docs this year
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Was This the Best Sundance Narrative Feature Year Ever?
Or has my bad movie radar just improved?
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A Whale of A Sequel
In ‘Avatar 2: The Way of Water’, James Cameron brings the underseas 3D bombast
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One of These Top Ten Films Lists Is Not Like The Others
“Sophisticated” or not, our critic chooses the movies that brought her joy this year
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‘She Said’ Lets Women Speak
Updating the template of the investigative journalism movie
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‘Ticket’ to Nowhere
Julia Roberts and George Clooney no longer equal romantic comedy gold
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‘Don’t Worry,’ It’s Not So Bad
You could drive a vintage car through the plot holes (and Harry Styles’s performance) in ‘Don’t Worry Darling,’ but it’s got something to say
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All The David Bowies
‘Moonage Daydream’ is an immersive trip, maybe a little long
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