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Sundance film festival

30 January 2024

  • This image released by the Sundance Insitute shows Maisy Stella, left, and Aubrey Plaza in a scene from "My Old Ass" by Megan Park, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. (Shane Mahood/Courtesy of Sundance Institute via AP)

    Big swings, big misses and big deals: what happened at this year’s Sundance?

    The 40th edition of the independent film festival saw some multimillion-dollar deals but also had attendees question if there was a drop in quality

29 January 2024

  • ‘The financial impact was quite overwhelming’ … Wendell B Harris Jr, centre, in Chameleon Street.

    ‘I think therefore I scam!’ The lost masterpiece about the con artist who said he performed 36 successful hysterectomies

    Chameleon Street, a true-crime comedy about the fraudster who purportedly passed as a lawyer, a surgeon and even a basketball-player, fell foul of a racist Hollywood. Can it now be a hit? We speak to its director

27 January 2024

  • Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart standing together.

    Sundance film festival roundup – Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, wild provocations and indie grit

    The two stars had four films premiering between them in Utah, but the best performances came from Sebastian Stan and Saoirse Ronan, while a first-time director sold his horror film to Netflix for a cool $17m…

26 January 2024

  • Izaac Wang in Didi

    First look review
    Dìdi review – a tender, specific rendering of adolescence on the early internet

    Sundance film festival: Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical tale of an Asian American teen’s life played out online in 2008 is moving and detailed

25 January 2024

  • Woman with finger up in purple lighting.

    First look review
    It’s What’s Inside review – buzzy, big-sale Sundance thriller is a little empty

    Netflix forked out $17m for the low-budget, high-concept mystery but while there’s some fun to be had, there’s something missing

24 January 2024

  • film still of a woman holding a child on the banks of a lake with a boat in it

    First look review
    Handling the Undead review – sad, slow-burn zombie drama is less gore, more grief

    Sundance film festival: The Worst Person in the World’s Renate Reinsve leads a dour film about families dealing with the reappearance of deceased loved ones
  • A man and woman on a scooter

    First look review
    Thelma review – June Squibb is a delight in sweet action-comedy

    The Oscar nominee plays her first lead, at 94, in a tender and well-observed story of a grandmother refusing to accept the limitations of age
  • a man and a woman in a car

    First look review
    Will & Harper review – Will Ferrell’s charming trans road trip documentary

    The actor goes on a cross-country trip with an old friend who has transitioned in a crowd-pleasing winner that will prove illuminating for many

23 January 2024

  • A still from A Different Man by Aaron Schimberg, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

    First look review
    A Different Man review – Sebastian Stan transforms in miserable study of cruelty

    A wannabe actor undergoes dramatic facial reconstruction surgery in a torturously empty psychodrama
  • woman in a blazer walking up steps with american flags behind her

    First look review
    Winner review – snappy, I, Tonya-esque take on Reality Winner

    The second film in less than a year on the NSA whistleblower takes a brisk, jazzy look at her life before and after her headline-making leaks
  • man sitting in a lecture hall

    First look review
    Rob Peace review – Chiwetel Ejiofor’s moving fact-based tragedy

    A magnificent lead performance from newcomer Jay Will helps to lift a rousing yet often uneven drama based on the life and death of a Yale student

22 January 2024

  • group of people in a situation room with laptops and coffee

    ‘Think about the unthinkable’: could the US handle an even worse January 6?

  • A still from Presence.

    First look review
    Presence review – Steven Soderbergh’s intriguing ghost story experiment

  • Chris Smalls in Union

    Documentary uncovers the difficult battle to unionize at Amazon

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian in Love Lies Bleeding by Rose Glass, an official selection of the Midnight program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

    First look review
    Love Lies Bleeding review – gore, sex and 80s needle-drops can’t save forgettable thriller

21 January 2024

  • A black man wearing a suit looks down as an older Black man wearing a suit looks at him, clapping.

    The American Society of Magical Negroes review – hit-and-miss satire

    A provocative comedy, imagining a Harry Potter-esque academy poking fun at a well-worn stereotype, has its moments
  • Man wearing suit looks back.

    ‘Maybe we should let me go’: Christopher Reeve documentary brings tears to Sundance

    A standing ovation met a powerful new film looking at life for the Superman star before and after his paralysing accident

    • First look review
      My Old Ass review – charmingly shaggy high-concept comedy

    • First look review
      Exhibiting Forgiveness review – André Holland powers moving father-son drama

    • First look review
      A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin lead pat buddy dramedy

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