IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Review: Pixar's Andrew Stanton's Underwhelming Return to Live-Action Filmmaking
As a writer and/or director of finely crafted, populist animated entertainments, Andrew Stanton (Finding Dory, WALL-E, Finding Nemo) has few, if any, equals. Stanton’s only foray into live-action filmmaking, however, John Carter, an expensive adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' titular character...
HOW TO MAKE A KILLING Review: Glen Powell Leads Surface-Deep Satire of the Rich And Not So Famous
Glen Powell, Jessica Henwick, and Margaret Qualley star in John Patton Ford's sophomore feature.
GHOST TRAIN Review: South Korean Horror Trods Overly Familiar Supernatural Ground
The translated title of Tak Se-woong’s (Devil in the Lake, A Stranger Dream) latest, feature-length film, Ghost Train (괴기열차), is something of a misnomer. While Tak’s intriguingly premised supernatural horror film involves unquiet specters (a handful, maybe more) and...
San Francisco's Original Movie Palace, The Castro Theatre, Reopens With Harry Melling's PILLION
The second movie palace to bear the name, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco opened more than a century ago (1922). Originally serving the working-class inhabitants of the area, the Art Deco-inspired Castro Theatre ran new and old theatrical...
WUTHERING HEIGHTS Review: Emerald Fennell Tackles Emily Brontë's Gothic Drama With Mixed Results
For filmmakers stuck in a creative lull or stall, there’s nothing better than taking a dip into the public domain, pulling out a work of fiction long past its copyright expiration, and adapting, revising, or reinterpreting it accordingly to match...
Sundance 2026 Review: UNION COUNTY, Will Poulter Leads Devastating Examination of Opioid Addiction
By one estimate, more than 550,000 people have lost their lives to the opioid epidemic over the first quarter of the 21st century. That number doubles or even triples when it includes those who’ve fallen prey to opioid addiction...
Sundance 2026 Review: THE GALLERIST, Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega Co-Star in Ambitious Art-World Satire
Art-world satires come (The Square); art-world satires go (Velvet Buzzsaw). Few, if any, art-world satires leave any impression whatsoever beyond the transient or the ephemeral. Writer-director Cathy Yan’s (Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn,...
Sundance 2026 Review: HANGING BY A WIRE, Fascinating Documentary Leaves You Wanting More
On the morning of August 22nd, 2023, eight young men, six of them still in school, climbed into a cable car to traverse a valley 900 feet above the remote foothills of Pakistan, a trip the young men took at...
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.
