Sundance 2026 Review: GHOST IN THE MACHINE, A Must-See AI Primer
Valerie Veatch directed the "mind-expanding, investigative essay" documentary.
Sundance 2026 Review: I WANT YOUR SEX, Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman Headline Gregg Araki's Welcome Return to Filmmaking
Between 1987 (Three Bewildered People in the Night) and 2010 (Kaboom), queer filmmaker Gregg Araki wrote and directed 10 films, solidifying his status as a New Queer Cinema visionary with few, if any, peers (only arthouse favorites Derek Jarman and...
Sundance 2026 Review: THE INVITE, Who's Afraid of Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen?
When we first meet Joe (Seth Rogen), a failed musician turned conservatory music instructor, in director Olivia Wilde’s (Don’t Worry Darling, Booksmart) superbly engaging third film, The Invite, he’s mired in a miasma of self-doubt, disappointment, and frustration. Indifferently...
Sundance 2026 Review: NIGHT NURSE, Promising Psychosexual Thriller Dissipates Into Abstraction
Filmmaker David Lynch (Lost Highway, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet) may have left this mortal plane for the next, but his influence — not to mention his filmography — survives in the work of filmmakers who found a kindred spirit...
Sundance 2026 Review: EXTRA GEOGRAPHY, Idiosyncratic, Brit-Set Coming-of-Age Story Elevated By Duel Leads
When ultra-posh, Brit high-schoolers Flic (Marni Duggan) and Minna (Galaxie Clear), supposed best friends (forever) at the center of Extra Geography, BAFTA Award-winning director Molly Manners’s (One Day, Lazy Susan, In My Skin) splendid feature-length debut, decide to undetake a...
Sundance 2026 Review: TUNER, Star-Driven Crime-Thriller Hampered by Predictable Plotting
After winning an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2022 for Navalny, filmmaker Daniel Roher (Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band) shifted his focus from the documentary format (Blink) to narrative storytelling with Tuner, an engrossing, if uneven,...
Sundance 2026 Review: THE MOMENT, Surface-Deep Charlie XCX Mockumentary
Charli XCX’s meteoric rise as a mega-pop-star has been anything but meteoric. It’s been a slow, upward descent, from posting videos on a long-defunct social-media platform, MySpace, in 2008 at the age of sixteen, to signing with a record...
JIMPA Review: Universal Experiences That Every Family Must Face Together
Olivia Colman, Aud Mason-Hyde, and John Lithgow star in writer-director Sophie Hyde's queer-centered generational drama.
Sundance 2026 Review: RUN AMOK, Must-See Hard-Hitting, Heart-Shredding Comedy-Drama
Writer-director NB Mager's debut feature stars Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Sophia Torres, Elizabeth Marvel, and Molly Ringwald.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, An Ode to Times and Peoples' Past
John Turturro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany and Will Price star in writer/director Noah Segan's character study / crime drama.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE WEIGHT, Ethan Hawke Leads Period Crime-Drama
Russell Crowe also stars in director Padraic McKinley's crime drama.
Sundance 2026 Review: CHASING SUMMER, A Cut Above the Usual Coming Home Comedy-Drama
Directed by Josephine Decker, Iliza Shlesinger wrote and stars in the comedy-drama, alongside Garrett Wareing, Lola Tung, Cassidy Freeman, Tom Welling, and Megan Mullally.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE INCOMER, Welcome Weirdness Dominates This Island Set Comedy
Gayle Rankin, Grant O'Rourke, and Domhnall Gleeson star in director Louis Paxton's feature debut.
Sundance 2026 Review: FING!, Roald Dahl-Inspired Fantasy for the Whole Family
Mia Wasikowska, Blake Harrison, and Taika Waititi star in director Jeffrey Walker's film.
Sundance 2026 Review: FRANK & LOUIS, Poignant, Sensitive Exploration of Redemption Through Caregiving
Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan star in Petra Volpe's prison drama.
Sundance 2026 Review: BUDDY Brings Childhood Horrors to Unreal Life
Casper Kelly directs Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Keegan-Michael Key, Jamie King, Michael Shannon and Topher Grace in a horror comedy.
Sundance 2026 Review: LEVITICUS, Standout Queer Horror From Down Under
Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, and Mia Wasikowska star in Adrian Chiarella's coming-of-age queer horror picture.
Sundance 2026 Review: THE MUSICAL Brings the Comedy and the Cringe in Equal Measure
Move over, Tim Robinson. You too, Nathan Fielder. Tim Heidecker, consider yourself on notice. There’s a new contender for the cringe-comedy throne. Said contender isn’t a writer-director-actor, but writer Alexander Heller, director Giselle Bonilla, actor Will Brill, and The...
Sundance 2026: JOSEPHINE, Deeply Moving, Powerful Character Study
When a police investigator asks eight-year-old Josephine (newcomer Mason Reeves), the title character in Beth de Araújo’s (Soft & Quiet) devastating crime drama/character study, if she’s seen the perpetrator of a violent crime in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park before,...
GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION Review: Gerard Butler Leads Somber Entry in Post-Apocalyptic Series
Morena Baccarin also stars in director Ric Roman Waugh's sequel.
