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I just paid to go see Melania so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. Amazon MGM Studios withheld this so-called documentary/infomercial from the prying eyes of critics with not even a Thursday preview. It is a move that doesn’t give one comfort that…

When you see Jason Statham starring in a one-word title you know exactly what kind of movie you are going to get, and his latest, Shelter, is right on brand. For this outing, Statham’s Michael Mason gets company in the form of a young girl named…

It’s the last dance for Sundance in Park City as the indie-focused festival prepares to relocate to Boulder, Colorado, next year. It’s also the first fest to go on without its legendary Oscar-winning founder Robert Redford, who died in September. The event’s 42nd edition kicked off January 22…

"I lived my life in people's pockets," sighs Harry (John Turturro), a small-town thief who belongs as much in a museum as he does on the busy streets of New York. Harry is a throwback, and so is The Only Living Pickpocket In New York, this modest but…

Imagine the first two lines of Whitney Houston's mawkish hit "The Greatest Love of All" on a loop for an hour and a half and you're part way to experiencing Andrew Stanton's decades-spanning compendium movie. Unfolding with all the urgency of an early-2000s screensaver, it takes a big swing at life…

Somehow the directing career of Jay Duplass got waylaid for a few years as he explored other creative pursuits. Then, when he was ready to come back calling shots behind the camera, the pandemic and strikes hit, meaning it had been a very long 13 years…

Seeing The Weight, which had its world premiere tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, it so reminded me of the kind of solid adventure picture studios used to lure major stars to make, and also the type of period heavily testosterone movie we don’t see…

In Chasing Summer, Iliza Shlesinger unpacks a heartfelt millennial love letter to Texas, growing up and the disasters of life. Written by Shlesinger and directed by Josephine Decker, the comedian stars as fortysomething aid worker Jamie, who, after…

First, don’t be put off by the title. Run Amok, premiering Monday in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, is not a Chevy Chase comedy from the ’80s. If this sells, that name is the first thing that should be changed, especially for a movie dealing with violence, death, trauma…

The poster for the new dark-comedy, psychological-thriller, genre-bending island survival flick Send Help initially made me think “Oh, this is another Sam Raimi horror film.” How wrong I was, and I hope they aren’t sending the wrong message to others…

Not to be confused with the 1968 Dean Martin Matt Helm spy film The Wrecking Crew, or the 2000 Ice T Wrecking Crew, or even the 2008 musical documentary The Wrecking Crew, this first big teaming of Jason Momoa (Aquaman) and Dave Bautista (Guardians of th…

In Zoey Deutch’s new Sundance feature Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, she clicks her heels three times and transports audiences back to the mid-budget comedy era of the aughts. Written by David Wain and Ken Marino, the Wain-helmed…