Sundance

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  Sundance 2025: Questlove Fearlessly Humanizes a Musical Enigma in 'Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)'

  Directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2025

  After the massive success of his directorial debut, 'Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),' multi-award...

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  Sundance 2024: 'In the Summers' Quietly Radiates Compassionate Warmth

  Directed by Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2024

  Winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition, In the Summers tells the story of two daughters a...

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  Sundance 2024: 'As We Speak' Thoughtfully Cross-Examines Rap Lyrics as Legal Evidence

  Directed by J.M. Harper

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2024

  Last November, a judge ruled that Young Thug's lyrics could be admitted into evidence as part of the rapper's ongoing RICO case, and, altho...

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  'STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie' Takes Viewers Back to the Past of One of Canada's Greats

  Directed by Davis Guggenheim

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2023

  Born in Edmonton and raised in Burnaby, BC, Michael J. Fox is a national treasure. His self-effacing, boyish charms and good looks made him...

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  Little Richard Documentary 'I Am Everything' Doesn't Tell Viewers Everything

  Directed by Lisa Cortés

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2023

  Documentarians have a choice to make before they hit record: do we make a film that simply collates information and presents it as is, leav...

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  ​Sundance 2023: 'Magazine Dreams' Is a Delicate Depiction of Brutality

  Directed by Elijah Bynum

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2023

  There's a lot to unwrap in Elijah Bynum's Magazine Dreams. The exploration and unravelling of extreme masculinity through an amateur bodybu...

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  The Grotesque ​'Infinity Pool' Is Worth Wading Into

  Directed by Brandon Cronenberg

  PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2023

  It's official: this is Mia Goth's world and we're all just living in it. Ever since her feature film debut in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac...

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  Sundance 2023: 'birth/rebirth' Reanimates the Story of 'Frankenstein' in an Exciting New Way

  Directed by Laura Moss

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023

  Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's life was marred by illness and the deaths of those closest to her, including a miscarriage and the prema...