More from David Rooney
‘Saccharine’ Review: Midori Francis Navigates the Hallucinatory Minefield Between Body Image and Body Horror in Messy Weight-Loss Freakout
Australian writer-director Natalie Erika James hitches eating disorders and corporeal revulsion to the East Asian cultural concept of the Hungry Ghost.
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‘Nuisance Bear’ Review: Transfixing Study of Polar Bears in the Canadian Arctic Reflects on the Steep Two-Way Costs of Human Interaction
Winner of the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition’s Grand Jury Prize, Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden’s film is both a nature doc and a haunting ethnographic portrait.
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THR Film Critics Pick the Best of Sundance 2026
A queer horror film, a double dose of Olivia Wilde, a shocker about an 8-year-old sexual assault witness and docs on Salman Rushdie and Billie Jean King are among 15 faves.
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‘Frank & Louis’ Review: Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan Bring Transcendent Grace to Prison Drama About Dignity and Compassion
Swiss writer-director Petra Volpe’s English-language debut is inspired by a California program in which incarcerated men are trained to care for elderly inmates with dementia.
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‘Union County’ Review: Will Poulter and Noah Centineo Embed With Real-Life Recovering Opiate Addicts in Rural Ohio in Absorbing Docudrama
Adam Meeks expands on his short film of the same name in this debut feature integrating professional actors with court-mandated drug program participants.
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‘Cold Storage’ Review: Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell and Liam Neeson Make Goofy Sci-Fi Horror Throwback Painless, if Not Priceless
Directed by Jonny Campbell and adapted by David Koepp from his novel, the story of a frantic rush to stop a killer fungus from spreading also features Sosie Bacon, Lesley Manville and Vanessa Redgrave.
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‘Give Me the Ball!’ Review: Rousing Bio-Doc Pays Tribute to the Indomitable Billie Jean King, Whose Tenacity Equalized the Professional Tennis Court
ESPN’s ‘30 for 30’ series entry, directed by Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff, is a lovingly made account of the life and career of a galvanizing force in sports, women’s rights and LGBTQ visibility.
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‘Antiheroine’ Review: Courtney Love Comes Clean About Highs, Lows and Needing to Be Heard in a Rock Doc Both Raucous and Intimate
Edward Lovelace and James Hall weave an archival history of the Hole frontwoman in her own words as she works on her first album of new music in over a decade.
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‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Review: John Turturro Mesmerizes as a Small-Time Hustler Facing Obsolescence in Fine-Grained Crime Thriller
Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany and Steve Buscemi also get wrapped in the titular city’s enveloping presence in writer-director Noah Segan’s latest.
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‘See You When I See You’ Review: Cooper Raiff Gives a Deeply Felt Lead Turn in a Tragicomedy That’s Sad for the Wrong Reasons
Kaitlyn Dever, David Duchovny, Hope Davis and Lucy Boynton also star in Jay Duplass’ ensemble piece based on stand-up comic Adam Cayton-Holland’s memoir about the loss of his sister.
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‘The Weight’ Review: Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe in a Depression-Era Crime Drama That Undersells Its High Stakes
Julia Jones also stars in Padraic McKinley’s debut as the lone woman with a group of volatile men on a dangerous gold smuggling expedition through Oregon.
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‘Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Intimate Study of Physical and Spiritual Recovery
Incorporating footage shot by the author’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, the doc captures the strength and resilience of its subject, for whom writing remains an act of resistance.
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