Sundance Film Festival Reviews
‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: Paul Reubens Explores Pee-wee Herman, and His Own Identity, in Revealing HBO Doc
Culled from 40 hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Matt Wolf's doc gives Paul Reubens his own posthumous spotlight.
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‘Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)’ Review: Questlove’s Admiring Portrait Gives Sly Stone His Flowers
In his follow-up to 'Summer of Soul,' the award-winning producer explores the legacy of the legendary musician and the challenges faced by Black artists in America.
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‘DJ Ahmet’ Review: Techno Music and Shepherding Collide in a Touching Coming-of-Age Tale
A North Macedonian farm boy's love of EDM sets him on a path of small-town rebellion in the feature filmmaking debut from Georgi M. Unkovski.
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‘Jimpa’ Review: Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in a Well-Intentioned but Numbingly Earnest Inter-Generational Queer Family Drama
Sophie Hyde’s latest centers on a filmmaker navigating the cross currents between her nonbinary teenager and her hedonistic gay father while working on a project about the end of her parents’ marriage.
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‘Omaha’ Review: John Magaro Is Heartbreaking in Slender but Affecting Drama About Grief and Fatherhood
Cole Webley’s debut feature, penned by ‘The Killing of Two Lovers’ writer-director Robert Machoian and premiering in competition at Sundance, follows a family road trip in the wake of shattering loss.
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‘Black Box Diaries’ Review: The Face of Japan’s #MeToo Movement Tells Her Compelling Story
In her debut documentary feature, which premiered at Sundance, the journalist Shiori Ito chronicles her journey for legal recourse in a case against the high-profile reporter she accused of rape.
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‘Porcelain War’ Review: Intimate Reflection on Making Art in Wartime Ukraine Is Beautiful but Frustrating
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance with this look at the difficulty and necessity of producing art in times of conflict.
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‘Ponyboi’ Review: River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien Star in a Sexy, Sweaty New Jersey Fever Dream
The intersex actor and the 'Maze Runner' star play a sex worker and a goofy gangster, respectively, in a crime drama directed by Esteban Arango.
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‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Review: A Distinctive Drama About Fraught Mother-Daughter Relationships
In Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, a mother's intervention in her teenage daughter's budding romance creates an unexpected emotional love triangle.
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‘Little Death’ Review: David Schwimmer in a Darren Aronofsky-Produced Film That Trips Over Its Own Ambitions
Talia Ryder, Gaby Hoffmann and Dominic Fike co-star in Jack Begert's satire about thwarted ambition.
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‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: An Enlightening Debut Doc Dives Into the Past to Ponder the Digital Future
Two women investigate the real person behind an educational software from the '80s, raising urgent questions about our relationship to technology.
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‘Daughters’ Review: A Potent Documentary Nearly Undone by Its Anticlimactic Structure
Directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae look at a program that reunites girls with their incarcerated fathers for an emotional daddy-daughter dance.
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