Category: sundance 2016

Swiss Army Man is the kind of movie that will be glibly summed up with a description that diminishes it but will likely garner enough attention to get people talking. So, when you hear someone refer to the “Daniel Radcliffe’s farting...

  Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople is, in many ways, an old-fashioned big screen entertainment but with a modern day sense of humor. It has all the thrills and laughs you could hope to get in return for the cost of...

Chad Hartigan’s Morris from America, being the story of a young African-American teen (Markees Christmas as Morris) living in Heidelberg, Germany with his widower father (Craig Robinson), is certainly novel in its premise. But after that novelty wears off, what remains...

  Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster may be deeply cynical about the ability of human beings to carry on long term romantic relationships – this is a film that takes as its love theme the Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue murder ballad “Where...

  Back when I did closed captioning for a living, I once had to watch and caption an hour-long promotional video for an insidious pyramid scheme. It was creepy and uncomfortable and I felt bad about having any part in...

  At first, it’s difficult for someone like me, a white, First World, middle class male, to find an entry point into Elite Zexer’s Sand Storm. The modern day Bedouin villagers live a life that is almost wholly foreign to me....

  Chris Kelly’s Other People establishes its tone with a killer one-two punch of an opening scene. The film begins with a bleak kick to the gut, a family sobbing over the disease-wracked corpse of their matriarch. What happens next, though, is...

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You is a fairly familiar biographical documentary when appraised superficially. Scratch the surface, though, and you’ll find a deeper rumination on time and longevity. The more things change, the more they...