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Themes of guilt, punishment and redemption are common currency in prison dramas, but Petra Volpe's terrific Frank & Louis looks at the issue from an entirely unexpected and wholly moving perspective. The follow-up to last year’s hospital-set Berlinale…

Horror is such an overworked genre these days with every possible variation tried and tried again, every successful franchise running through countless sequels before starting all over again a la Scream, Halloween and more. The “found footage” sub-genre…

Cathy Yan's latest The Gallerist opens with a quote from the late Andy Warhol: "Art is what you can get away with." The director goes on to prove this point with a slight but intelligent black comedy that the late pop-art guru might have thought was a…

For her Sundance directorial debut, Olivia Wilde has delivered a witty, emotional punch to Park City with the world premiere of The Invite. Also starring in the English-language remake of Spanish filmmaker Cesc Gay’s The People Upstairs (2020)…

Want to see Peter Dinklage dressed like a Juggalo and waving an Uzi? The Sh*theads, Macon Blair's follow-up to The Toxic Avenger, is full of surprises like that, a goofily violent stoner romp-slash-caper that likely would have been called Coenesque back…

Billed under the Family Matinee section of the Sundance Film Festival, today’s World Premiere of Fing!, an Australian-British production, proves to be one of the unexpected delights of the fest so far. Based on British entertainer and children’s…

As Charli XCX debuts her hotly anticipated film The Moment at the Sundance Film Festival, the Aidan Zamiri-helmed mockumentary is finally marking the end of an era, more than a year after “brat” summer. The pic repped something of a Charli XCX…

Sex, money and murder: Gregg Araki knows what people want, and it's been a long time since he last gave it to them, in 2015's racy doomsday cult comedy Kaboom. Premiering at Sundance for the 11th time, Araki used his pulpit there to pay tribute to the…

Filmmaker Beth de Araujo has turned to cinema to bring her own personal trauma to the screen using a fictionalized situation to mirror the harrowing event in her childhood that has informed the rest of her life, leading to an 11-year quest to turn it…

German political theorist Hannah Arendt warned of the banality of evil back in 1963, but co-writer/director Casper Kelly revels in the evil of banality in this anarchic horror-comedy, which uses the inane world of (young) children's television as a backdrop to an ingenious slasher movie. If…

With a hungry ghost and a series of crippling self-esteem issues in tow, Saccharine leaves a lot for audiences to stomach. Six years after making her feature directorial debut at Sundance with Relic (2020), writer/director Natalie Erika James is back for the festival’s final year in Park City…

In Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!, the co-writer/director tells a beautifully relatable story of life, love and loss with some Fosse-quality dance numbers and just the right amount of whimsy. Set in Tokyo, the comedy-drama…