Sundance 2021
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‘Street Gang’ Film Review: Documentary Celebrates How ‘Sesame Street’ Changed the World
Let’s face it, blooper reels in which Muppets blow their lines and curse will always be priceless
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‘Cryptozoo’ Film Review: Dash Shaw Returns With More Trippy Adult Animation
”My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea“ director makes genre tales personal and visually extravagant
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‘Passing’ Film Review: Rebecca Hall Explores Race in Stunning Directorial Debut
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play characters who can pass for white, and the drama digs into the roots of their masquerade
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‘CODA’ Film Review: A Heartfelt Crowd-Pleaser About a Deaf Family With a Hearing Daughter
Sian Heder’s film, which set a Sundance sales record, is modest but thoroughly satisfying, corny but effective, never edgy and always likable
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‘Playing With Sharks’ Film Review: Valerie Taylor Champions the Ocean’s Most Misunderstood Denizens
Once a consultant and photographer on ”Jaws,“ conservationist Taylor champions sharks after decades of bad P.R.
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Questlove Was Stunned by the 50-Year-Old Hidden Footage That Inspired ‘Summer of Soul’ (Video)
”I’d like to think of myself as somewhere between a savant and a sage of music history, how come I never heard of this thing?“ Questlove tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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‘The Sparks Brothers’ Film Review: Edgar Wright Makes Playful Documentary About Elusive Band Sparks
Wright tackles the idiosyncratic, influential band without ever giving away too much or losing an air of mystery
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‘Rita Moreno’ Doc Sells to Roadside Attractions
Mariem Perez Riera directed the film that debuted at Sundance
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‘Land’ Film Review: Robin Wright Relies on Nature for Her Subdued Directorial Debut
Sundance 2021: The landscape overpowers the screenplay in this tale of a woman learning to live in the wilderness
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Star LaKeith Stanfield Was Reluctant to Play Black Panthers’ FBI Mole: ‘F– This Dude’ (Video)
Sundance 2021: ”I didn’t like what he did, I had a lot of judgments,“ the actor tells TheWrap
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‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Director on Why Questioning Reality Became Such a White Male Thing (Video)
Sundance 2021: ”It might be that from our privilege, we may feel like there’s fewer ramifications for talking about this publicly,“ Rodney Ascher says
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‘Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Filmmakers on Importance of Björn Andrésen Returning to Japan (Video)
Sundance 2021: Actor was able to ”reclaim his experience and the place of Japan… as an adult,“ filmmaker Kristian Petri says
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‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Director Says Climate Change Isn’t the Only Reason Wildfires Are Worse (Video)
Sundance 2021: Lucy Walker’s documentary explores how humans impact wildfires by how we prepare for and respond to them
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‘Rebel Hearts': Meet the Feminist Nuns Who Kicked the Cloister Doors Down (Video)
Sundance 2021: In the 60s, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart fought Catholic orthodoxy to redefine what it means to be a nun
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‘At the Ready’ Filmmakers Wanted a Doc About Border Patrol Trainees With a ‘Shelf Life’ Post-Trump (Video)
Sundance 2021: Documentary follows students training to become Border Patrol officers in Texas
