
Sundance
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How ‘Emergency’ Cast Turned Immediate Chemistry Into a Friendship-Fueled Thriller (Video)
By Jeremy Fuster | January 23, 2022 @ 2:15 PMSundance 2022: Film follows three college students of color struggling to figure out what to do when they find a white girl passed out in their apartment
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‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Film Review: Regina Hall Elevates Satirical Evangelical Mockumentary
By Simon Abrams | January 23, 2022 @ 1:30 PMSundance 2022: The targets of writer-director Adamma Ebo’s comedy aren’t always clear, but Hall’s performance consistently hits the bullseye
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National Geographic Acquires Amazon Documentary ‘The Territory’ at Sundance
By Jeremy Fuster | January 23, 2022 @ 9:53 AMSundance 2022: Darren Aronofsky co-produced this film that follows the battle between indigenous people and illegal loggers over the Amazon rainforest
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National Geographic Acquires Rights to Sundance Volcano Doc ‘Fire of Love’
By Jeremy Fuster | January 23, 2022 @ 9:32 AMSundance 2022: Sara Dosa’s documentary tells the tale of married volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who filmed landmark footage of volcanic eruptions
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‘Resurrection’ Film Review: Rebecca Hall Keeps a Firm Grasp on Unsettling Familial Horror
By William Bibbiani | January 22, 2022 @ 8:55 PMSundance 2022: Writer-director Andrew Semans’ script takes a big narrative swing, but Hall, Tim Roth and Grace Kaufman make it all seem believable
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‘Sharp Stick’ Film Review: Lena Dunham’s First Feature in a Decade Feels Overly Familiar
By Martin Tsai | January 22, 2022 @ 8:00 PMSundance 2022: She’s left New York City behind for Malibu, but the writer-director seems to be stuck in her comfort zone
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‘Jihad Rehab’ Film Review: Firefighter-Turned-Filmmaker’s Doc Questions Our Beliefs About Terrorists
By Ronda Racha Penrice | January 22, 2022 @ 6:45 PMSundance 2022: Given access to a program designed to give former Gitmo detainees a second chance, Meg Smaker is privy to viewpoints Americans rarely hear
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‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ Film Review: Emma Thompson Shines as a Widow Seeking Intimacy
By Martin Tsai | January 22, 2022 @ 5:45 PMSundance 2022: Director Sophie Hyde keeps this mostly-two-hander between Thompson and Daryl McCormack from feeling too stage-bound
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‘Framing Agnes’ Film Review: Trans Artists and Academics Bring History into the Present
By Alonso Duralde | January 22, 2022 @ 5:15 PMSundance 2022: Director Chase Joynt (“No Ordinary Man”) uses vintage gender-study interviews as a prism through which to view modern transgender lives
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How Thandiwe Newton Used Her Own Experience to Shape Her ‘God’s Country’ Performance (Video)
By Umberto Gonzalez | January 22, 2022 @ 3:46 PMSundance 2022: ”I felt that I had experienced those same frustrations daily,“ Newton tells TheWrap’s Brian Welk
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‘2nd Chance’ Film Review: Ramin Bahrani Profiles a Bulletproof-Vest Entrepreneur
By Carlos Aguilar | January 22, 2022 @ 3:25 PMSundance 2022: In this documentary, the filmmaker tries to publish the truth, not the legend, of inventor Richard Davis
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How Oscar De La Hoya Convinced Eva Longoria Bastón to Direct ‘La Guerra Civil’ (Video)
By Umberto Gonzalez | January 22, 2022 @ 12:42 PMSundance 2022: ”Hey, there’s this 25th anniversary of this epic fight that happened. We want to do a documentary about it. You want to do it?“ De La Hoya told Longoria Bastón
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Shudder Acquires Sundance Psychological Horror Film ‘Speak No Evil’
By Umberto Gonzalez | January 22, 2022 @ 10:05 AMSundance 2022: Film is set for release in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland in late 2022.
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‘Call Jane’ Film Review: Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver Shine as Underground Abortionists
By Robert Abele | January 21, 2022 @ 8:00 PMSundance 2022: This historical drama combines compassion, urgency and wit as it examines women helping women in the not-so-distant bad old days
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‘Nothing Compares’ Film Review: Heartbreaking Sinead O’Connor Documentary Is Sadly Timely
By Steve Pond | January 21, 2022 @ 6:45 PMSundance 2022: Kathryn Ferguson paints a strong portrait of O’Connor’s initial rise and fall, but leaves out her long, curious second act