Report From Sundance
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‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’ Film Review: Nicolas Cage Grimaces and Bears It Through Baffling Genre Mishmash
Working in English for the first time, Japanese auteur Sion Sono’s greatness gets lost in the translation
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‘CODA’ Film Review: A Heartfelt Crowd-Pleaser About a Deaf Family With a Hearing Daughter
Sian Heder’s film, which set a Sundance sales record, is modest but thoroughly satisfying, corny but effective, never edgy and always likable
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‘How It Ends’ Film Review: It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and You’ll Feel Fine
Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones’ comedy is like Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” but without all the, um, melancholia
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‘Summer of Soul’ Film Review: Questlove’s Vibrant Concert Film Captures a Pivotal Harlem Moment
The documentary finds politics and music inextricably linked, with culture flowing from the church to the street to the concert stage
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‘The Sparks Brothers’ Film Review: Edgar Wright Makes Playful Documentary About Elusive Band Sparks
Wright tackles the idiosyncratic, influential band without ever giving away too much or losing an air of mystery
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‘Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It’ Film Review: Documentary Honors a Showbiz Legend
From Puerto Rican roots to Hollywood stardom, Moreno strived, survived and achieved goddess status
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‘The World to Come’ Film Review: 2 Lonely Women Find Romance in Bleak Frontier Drama
The bleakness of frontier life underscores the emotional anguish of a pair of unhappily married couples
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‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Documentary Sells to Amazon Studios
Sundance 2021: “RBG” filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West directed the film about the non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet
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Sundance Horror Film ‘Censor’ Acquired by Magnolia Pictures for Summer Release
Prano Bailey-Bond’s feature premiered in the Midnight Section and will play at the Berlinale
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Super LTD Acquires Police Body-Camera Documentary ‘All Lights, Everywhere’
Sundance 2021: Theo Anthony’s film won a Special Jury prize for non-fiction experimentation
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Jerrod Carmichael’s ‘On the Count of Three’ Picked Up by Annapurna for $2 Million
Sundance 2021: Comedian directs and stars in the film along with Christopher Abbott
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Review: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield Bring Fred Hampton’s Betrayal to Life
Shaka King’s tale of the Black Panthers and the FBI is shockingly radical, particularly for a major-studio movie
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Virtual Sundance Boasts 600,000 Audience Views – Nearly 3 Times More Than 2020
Slimmed down festival featured only 73 films compared to usual slate of 120
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A24 Picks Up Ninja Thyberg’s ‘Pleasure’ About Los Angeles Porn Industry
Sundance 2021: Distributor will release an uncensored version alongside an R-rated version later this year
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Star LaKeith Stanfield Was Reluctant to Play Black Panthers’ FBI Mole: ‘F– This Dude’ (Video)
Sundance 2021: “I didn’t like what he did, I had a lot of judgments,” the actor tells TheWrap