Festival reviews – Page 61
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Reviews‘Bad Behaviour’: Sundance Review
Alice Englert directs herself and Jennifer Connelly in this US/New Zealand-set story of mother-daughter bonding
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Reviews‘Past Lives’: Sundance Review
Celine Song’s beautiful romance immediately draws comparisons to Linklater’s ‘Before’ trilogy
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Reviews‘Eileen’: Sundance Review
Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie steam up the screen in William Oldroyd’s period noir
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Reviews‘Cat Person’: Sundance Review
A ‘New Yorker’ short story becomes a feature-length examination of a young woman’s dating fears starring CODA’s Emilia Jones
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Reviews‘When It Melts’: Sundance Review
A woman confronts her challenging past in this Belgian debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Veerle Baetens
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Reviews‘The Starling Girl’: Sundance Review
Eliza Scanlen plays a devout Christian whose faith is tested by her attraction to an older pastor in this Kentucky-set debut
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Reviews‘Judy Blume Forever’: Sundance Review
The groundbreaking author is a compelling tour guide through her life’s work in this ’accomplished and polished’ Amazon doc
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Reviews‘Deep Rising’: Sundance Review
An urgent trip to the imperilled bottom of our world, narrated by Jason Momoa
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Reviews‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’: Sundance Review
The actor bares his soul for director Davis Guggenheim
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Reviews‘Magazine Dreams’: Sundance Review
Jonathan Majors powers through this uneven story of a bodybuilder at war with himself and the world
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Reviews‘In My Mother’s Skin’: Sundance Review
Folklore and history combine to chilling effect in this atmospheric horror from The Philippines
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Reviews‘Mamacruz’: Sundance Review
Spanish comedy/drama features veteran Kiti Manver as a middle-aged woman exploring her sexuality
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Reviews‘Heroic’: Sundance Review
A Mexican military cadet is forced to endure an environment of violence and abuse in David Zonana’s second feature
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Reviews‘Animalia’: Sundance Review
A wealthy, heavily pregnant woman experiences a crisis of faith in this enigmatic Morocco-set debut
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Reviews‘Earth Mama’: Sundance Review
A pregnant single mother tries to keep her head above water in this sensitive feature debut
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Reviews‘Talk To Me’: Sundance Review
A grief-stricken teen opens the door to the spirit world in this Australian chiller
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Reviews‘Shayda’: Sundance Review
In Australia, an Iranian immigrant fights for her life and her daughter in Noora Niasari’s powerful, semi-autobiographical debut
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Reviews‘Kim’s Video’: Sundance Review
’Maverick-spirited tale of movie-obsession’ starts out in a long-lost New York film institution and ends up in Sicily
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Reviews‘1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture’: Review
Documentary interrogates the use of the word homosexual in the modern American Bible
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Reviews‘Hanging Gardens’: Red Sea Review
A young boy finds unlikely treasure in a Baghdad city dump in Red Sea’s Best Film prizewinner