Reviews
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’20 Days in Mariupol’ Review: Ukraine Documentary Shows the Unspeakable
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Mstyslav Chernov’s film, shot entirely in the first three weeks of the war, is a brutally disturbing chronicle of inhumanity
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‘Aliens Abducted My Parents’ Review: Charming Cast Elevates Familiar Sci-Fi Coming-of-Age Comedy
Sundance 2023: A lot seems familiar from other teen movies — and other Sundance movies — but the young ensemble carries this to the stratosphere
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‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Review: Documentary Finds a Light Touch, Even With Parkinson’s Disease
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Davis Guggenheim’s doc mixes interviews with playful reconstructions of Fox’s life via scenes from his movies and TV shows
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‘Cassandro’ Review: Gael García Bernal Delivers a Star Performance, In and Out of the Ring
Sundance 2023: As the real-life gay lucha libre superstar, García Bernal captures the heart and physicality of a queer pioneer
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‘AUM: The Cult at the End of the World’ Review: Fascinating Doc Examines the Pivot From Yoga to Terrorism
Sundance 2023: Nearly three decades since the group disbanded, this documentary finds parallels in modern-day politics of personality
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‘Earth Mama’ Review: A Young, Black Mother Fights an Uncaring System for Herself and Her Family
Sundance 2023: Tia Nomore delivers a devastating but hopeful performance in Savanah Leaf’s directorial debut
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‘Fairyland’ Review: Moving Memoir of Daughter and Queer Father Hits the Screen With Emotional Heft
Sundance 2023: Scoot McNairy stuns in the lead role of an unconventional dad raising his child in 1970s San Francisco — and facing AIDS in the 80s
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‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Conventional Doc Takes an Immersive Look at an Enduring Star
Sundance 2023: The latest from Lana Wilson (“Miss Americana,” “After Tiller”) demonstrates there’s more than beauty behind her subject’s cultural staying power
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‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Review: Doc Traces the Work and Woes of a Sexual Revolutionary
Sundance 2023: This compelling examination of Hite’s life is less a mystery and more a look at how feminists get manhandled by the media patriarchy
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‘To Live and Die and Live’ Review: Alienated Filmmaker Can’t Go Home Again in Grim Drama
Sundance 2023: Writer-director Qasim Basir leaves a lot of promising plot threads and character elements on the table in his latest feature
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‘Women Talking’ Review: Sarah Polley’s Searing Drama Contemplates Revenge and Forgiveness
The sexually-abused members of a religious community get to decide what happens next, and the results are riveting
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‘The Pod Generation’ Review: Creepy Futuristic Satire Looks Great, Gets Tiring
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Sophie Barthes’ film with Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor is better at creating a brave new world than telling a story inside that world
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‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ Review: Documentary Celebrates Troubled Rock Icon
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Lisa Cortés’ film loves its subject without denying his messy contradictions
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‘L’Immensità’ Review: Penelope Cruz Raises a Trans Son Amid 1970s Italy in Exquisite Drama
Sundance 2023: Trans filmmaker Emanuele Crialese playfully and poignantly tells his story without dipping into dogma
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‘Kim’s Video’ Review: Pursuit of a Legendary VHS Archive Becomes a True-Life Comic Mystery
Sundance 2023: David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s documentary celebrates physical media while bumping up against shady characters and foreign bureaucracy
