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Sundance Review: “Western”
Part of Sundance’s U.S. Documentary Competition, Western is a tale of two cities. One, Eagle Pass, lies north of the Rio Grande, a small Texan town with a big Latino population that specializes in the cattle industry. Her sister city south of the border, Piedr...
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Sundance Review: “World of Tomorrow”
In Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow, robots programmed to fear death stride endlessly across the surface of the moon. The dead bodies of people jettisoned into the upper atmosphere fall back to Earth as beautiful shooting stars. A woman falls in love with a ...
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Sundance Reviews: ‘Land Ho!,’ ‘Web Junkie,’ ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter,’ ‘Imperial Dreams,’ ‘Rudderless’
Sundance is over and done with, but that doesn't mean the reviews will stop coming!
Land Ho!
Ex-brothers-in-law Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) and Colin (Paul Eenhorn) take off for a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Iceland. This is not the kind of old-people-gett...
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Runyon’s 20 Most Anticipated Films From Sundance 2014
As has always been the case, I wasn't able to go to the Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah this year; able only, like so many of us, to fawn over social media, tweets, and reviews of festival films that are worth seeing as I gently caress my computer sc...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Winners: ‘Whiplash’ Wins Grand Prize
The winners to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival were recently announced and we have the complete results.
The big winner of the festival was writer-director Damien Chazelle’s, Whiplash. Whiplash opened the festival to rave reviews and maintained that momentu...
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Sundance Review: ‘The Double’ Does Dark Comedy Right
Richard Ayoade's second directorial feature is a darkly hilarious look at a man and his doppelgänger.
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Sundance Review: ‘Rich Hill’ Finds Beauty In Small Moments
A visually sumptuous look at life in a small town.
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Sundance Review: ‘Concerning Violence’ Is A Poetic, Thought-Provoking Visual Essay
It has Lauryn Hill reading The Wretched of the Earth like poetry. What's not to love?
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Sundance Doc Reviews: ‘Dinosaur 13,’ ‘To Be Takei,’ ‘Fed Up,’ ‘Life Itself’
Brief thoughts on four worthwhile documentaries.
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Sundance Review: ‘They Came Together’ Never Quite Comes Together
This satire of romantic comedies becomes as generic as what it parodies.
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