Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Justin Chon’s Jamojaya Justin Chon took whatever juice playing one of the humans in Twilight got him and parlayed it into directing feature films, and I love that for him. His latest is Jamojaya, a father-son tale starring Indonesian star Yayu A.W. Unru and rapper Brian “Rich Brian” Imanuel (making his acting By Sarah • Jan 26, 2023 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review - Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields Brooke Shields occupies a rarified place in pop culture, a place she shares with a limited few women such as Jodie Foster, the Olsen twins, and Britney Spears, as Shields was one of the most sexualized young girls in the world during her childhood. In the 1970s and 1980s, Shields By Sarah • Jan 26, 2023 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in You Hurt My Feelings Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus reunite ten years after Enough Said, a mid-life rom-com about secrets and things overheard, and in that way, You Hurt My Feelings feels like familiar territory for the filmmaker-star pair. Holofcener once again writes and directs, and JLD once again stars as a middle-aged woman By Sarah • Jan 25, 2023 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun in Cat Person In 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s short story, Cat Person, went viral after it was published in The New Yorker. The story depicts the fraught relationship of Margot, a 20 year old college student, and Robert, her 34 year old maybe-boyfriend. It’s told from Margot’s perspective, revealing her inner By Sarah • Jan 25, 2023 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Daisy Ridley in Sometimes I Think About Dying Whomst among us has not dreamed of slowly decomposing in a forest rather than talking to co-workers? This is the question at the heart of Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, a normcore drama that might as well be the dictionary definition of “Sundance movie”. Is there a By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Eileen Eileen is the kind of fun bait-and-switch film that comes along frequently but rarely sticks the landing. Usually, films that attempt a twisty narrative with a technical difficulty of ten end up going off the rails, sometimes in just plain dreadful fashion (Collateral Beauty, The Book of Henry), sometimes in By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Gael Garcia Bernal in Cassandro Gael García Bernal has always had a boyish charm, but in Cassandro, starring as the titular lucha libre and LGBTQ+ icon, he turns that charm into a playful performance that walks the line of camp in just the right places to evoke the flamboyance at the intersection of professional wrestling By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Jonathan Majors in Magazine Dreams Warm halogen lights gild a human body so perfectly sculpted, every muscle bulges with singular presence, as if an anatomy poster has come to life. Here is Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors), an aspiring bodybuilder competing for a place at nationals, and a chance to go pro. But though his body By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 11:44 am
