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Sundance 2022

November 2022

  • Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood in Living, a gentle and exquisitely sad film.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Living review – Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama

    A gentle and poignant Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis

June 2022

  • Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack appear in <em>Good Luck to You, Leo Grande</em> by Sophie Hyde, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Nick Wall. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Emma Thompson hires sex worker in charming comedy

    Thompson gives an emotionally generous performance as a former teacher seeking sexual gratification in an amusing and compassionate two-hander

February 2022

  • Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza,

    Move over, silver foxes: Hollywood gets to grips with the age gap

    The Sundance film festival revealed a growing challenge to the traditional casting of middle-aged men with much younger women

29 January 2022

  • Noomi Rapace in You Won’t Be Alone; Bill Nighy in Living; Kristine Froseth and Jon Bernthal in Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick; Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in Cha Cha Real Smooth: ‘explosive chemistry’.

    From age-gap romances to a homemade Welsh robot: the best of Sundance 2022

    Noomi Rapace as a Macedonian witch vies with Cooper Raiff’s latest gem and dapper Bill Nighy in this second virtual edition of the US indie festival

27 January 2022

  • A still from <em>Navalny</em>, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    Navalny review – shocking documentary of a Russian poisoning

    A riveting new film, made in secret, details the harrowing ordeal of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader poisoned with novichok

26 January 2022

  • Alexei Navalny during a court appearance via video link from from prison.

    ‘Everyone was freaking out’: Navalny novichok film made in secret premieres at Sundance

    Director Daniel Roher tells of panic after team recorded Alexei Navalny pranking one of his Russian poisoners into confessing

25 January 2022

  • Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno appear in <em>AM I OK?</em> by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Emily Knecht. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    Am I OK? review – Dakota Johnson excels in uneven coming out film

    Directors Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne pair an intimate portrait of female friendship with the bittersweet revelations of coming out in one’s 30s
  • Aubrey Plaza appears in <em>Emily the Criminal</em> by John Patton Ford, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Low Spark Films. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    Emily the Criminal review – Aubrey Plaza charges taut thriller

    A gig worker turns to credit card fraud in a tense debut feature with an electrifying central performance
  • Evan Rachel Wood in a scene from Phoenix Rising.

    Marilyn Manson denies raping Evan Rachel Wood on music video set

    In a new documentary, Wood claimed she was ‘coerced into a commercial sex act under false pretences’. Manson called the claims ‘false’

24 January 2022

  • Palm Trees and Power Lines. Jamie Dack’s sharp-eyed and bruising debut.

    First look review
    Palm Trees and Power Lines review – an unnerving, remarkable debut

    The first feature from Jamie Dack, about a relationship between a 34-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl, boasts a breakout performance for newcomer Lily McInerny
  • Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver in Call Jane.

    Call Jane review – abortion drama is sensitive if not revelatory

    Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy’s film on the pre-Roe underground abortion network features strong performances but never rises to a rousing battle cry

    • First look review
      Cha Cha Real Smooth review – run-of-the-mill Sundance crowd-pleaser

    • First look review
      Sharp Stick review – Lena Dunham’s comeback is a misjudged experiment

    • jeen-yuhs: what can we learn from the new Kanye West documentary?

23 January 2022

  • Noomi Rapace appears in <em>You Won't Be Alone</em> by Goran Stolevski, an official selection of the World Cinema: Dramatic Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Branko Starcevic. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    You Won’t Be Alone review – spellbinding tale of a body-switching witch

    A witch discovers life, love and death via the bodies of others in a beautifully made and moving treatise on what it it means to be human
  • Rebecca Hall in i&gt;Resurrection by Andrew Semans, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Wyatt Garfield. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    Resurrection review – Rebecca Hall rises above misfiring thriller

    There’s a reliably effective star turn in an otherwise uneven film about a woman haunted by the trauma of her youth
  • A still from <em>Jihad Rehab</em> by Meg Smaker, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jack Shurman. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    Jihad Rehab review – eye-opening documentary on a controversial program

    Meg Smaker’s look at a facility aiming to ‘deradicalize’ offers empathy and context

22 January 2022

  • Nanny: a novel perspective but perhaps a missed opprtunity.

    First look review
    Nanny review – promising domestic worker thriller gets jumbled

    A Senegalese immigrant nanny battles micro-aggressions and otherworldly forces in a novel yet loosely assembled debut
  • Regina Hall appears in <em>Master</em> by Mariama Diallo, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    Master review – racism haunts a New England university in uneven horror

    Regina Hall is strong in writer-director Mariama Diallo’s well-observed but unsatisfying film about women of color on a mostly white campus
  • Sinéad O'Connor appears in <em>Nothing Compares</em> by Kathryn Ferguson, an official selection of the World Cinema: Documentary Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Andrew Catlin. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    Nothing Compares review – poignant, if limited, Sinéad O’Connor documentary

    A new look at the life and career of the controversial singer shows us mostly what many of us already know but does so effectively
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