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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “Bad Behaviour,” & “Divinity”

SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING: The Office, for depressives. Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the most anonymous member of a nondescript shipping department in a small Oregon town, wrapped in so many layers of emotional insulat...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “The Persian Version,” “The Starling Girl,” & “The Accidental Getaway Driver”

THE PERSIAN VERSION (Sony Classics): Maryam Keshavarz’s dramedy won the Sundance Audience Award in the US Dramatic Competition, and it’s a smart mixture of broad comedy and family drama. The comedy is mos...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “When You Finish Saving The World” & “Fresh”

It’s the second consecutive Virtual Sundance, with safety, convenience and isolation in place of weather, shuttle buses and community. Over the next several days, we’ll be bringing you reviews of several Su...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Theater Camp,” “Radical” & “Mutt”

THEATER CAMP (Searchlight/Disney): The odds are that a lot of people who’ll want to see a movie called Theater Camp are comfortable with the kind of ramshackle, hit-or-miss qualities associated with actual summer...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Rye Lane,” “Passages” & “Run Rabbit Run”

RYE LANE (Searchlight/Disney – March 31): Raine Allen Miller’s feature debut Rye Lane is a bubbly surprise, a quick-witted, fast-paced rom-com overflowing with charm. The script by Nathan Bryon and Tom Me...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Magazine Dreams,” “Polite Society” & “Drift”

MAGAZINE DREAMS: The hype was accurate: Jonathan Majors gives a titanic performance in Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams. Playing Killian, a roided-up amateur bodybuilder obsessed with achieving glory in that pr...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Eileen,” “Shortcomings” & “Landscape With Invisible Hand”

EILEEN: A dark tale of liberation, based on the novel by Ottessa Moshlegh (and adapted by Moshlegh with Luke Goebel). Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is an anonymous employee at a boys’ prison in a confining, wintry...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “You Hurt My Feelings,” “When It Melts” & “Jamojaya”

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS (A24): The title of Nicole Holofcener’s newest film is a fair guide to its stakes. Her projects (Walking & Talking, Lovely & Amazing, Friends With Money, Enough Said) have always be...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Cat Person,” “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” & “My Animal”

CAT PERSON: It seems to be necessary to establish one’s bona fides (or lack thereof) before commenting on Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person, so I’ll note that I’ve never read Kristen Roupenian’s ...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “Bad Behaviour,” & “Divinity”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “The Persian Version,” “The Starling Girl,” & “The Accidental Getaway Driver”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “When You Finish Saving The World” & “Fresh”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Theater Camp,” “Radical” & “Mutt”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Rye Lane,” “Passages” & “Run Rabbit Run”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Magazine Dreams,” “Polite Society” & “Drift”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Eileen,” “Shortcomings” & “Landscape With Invisible Hand”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “You Hurt My Feelings,” “When It Melts” & “Jamojaya”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Cat Person,” “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” & “My Animal”

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