Reviews
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‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Examines the Exhaustion of Hospital Chaplaincy
Sundance 2023: A chaplain-in-training faces a baptism of fire in the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic
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‘The Deepest Breath’ Review: Awe-Inspiring Underwater Footage Enhances Freediving Documentary
Sundance 2023: Director Laura McGann plays fast and loose with her storytelling, but the results are worth it
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‘Bad Behaviour’ Review: Alice Englert’s Directorial Debut Comes In and Out of Focus
Sundance 2023: Englert and Jennifer Connelly play daughter and mother in a quirky film with some moments that land but too many that do not
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‘The Starling Girl’ Review: Repressed Young Woman Seeks Freedom in Assured Indie Debut
Sundance 2023: Writer-director Laurel Parmet captures both the beauty and bondage of an isolated Christian community
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‘Judy Blume Forever’ Review: Doc Proves an Writer’s Output Can Be More Memorable Than Their Biography
Sundance 2023: If only this celebratory film serviced its subject with the nuance that novelist Blume has brought to her work
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‘Magazine Dreams’ Review: Jonathan Majors Delivers a Powerhouse Performance as a Tormented Bodybuilder
Sundance 2023: This character study is occasionally unfocused, but Majors transforms himself physically and mentally to portray a soul in agony
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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
