Posts Tagged ‘Sundance 2023 reviews’
 

 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

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 ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Past Lives,” “Fairyland” & “Infinity Pool”

  PAST LIVES (A24):  The playwright Celine Song makes an impressive feature writing/directing debut with the lovely, eloquent Past Lives.  The film is sort of the opposite of Sliding Doors and all of the multiversal ente...
by Mitch Salem