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‘Bones and All’ Director Luca Guadagnino to Receive Sundance’s International Icon Award
The filmmaker will be honored alongside Ryan Coogler, W. Kamau Bell and Nikyatu Jusu at the festival’s Opening Night
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‘Framing Agnes’ Review: Trans Artists and Academics Bring History into the Present
Director Chase Joynt (“No Ordinary Man”) uses vintage gender-study interviews as a prism through which to view modern transgender lives
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‘2nd Chance’ Review: Ramin Bahrani Profiles a Bulletproof-Vest Entrepreneur
In this documentary, the filmmaker tries to publish the truth, not the legend, of inventor Richard Davis
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‘Call Jane’ Review: Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver Shine as Underground Abortionists
This historical drama combines compassion, urgency and wit as it examines women helping women in the not-so-distant bad old days
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‘Last Flight Home’ Review: Ondi Timoner’s Beautiful Tribute to Her Father Documents His Last Days
The veteran doc director celebrates her dad’s life as she tracks his chosen path to his own demise
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‘The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales’ Review: Disney’s Magic Kingdom Takes a Hit in Sobering Documentary
Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Roy O. Disney and grandniece of Walt, uses her family company as a case study in corporate heartlessness
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‘Nothing Compares’ Review: Heartbreaking Sinead O’Connor Documentary Is Sadly Timely
Kathryn Ferguson paints a strong portrait of O’Connor’s initial rise and fall, but leaves out her long, curious second act
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‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: Gorgeously Moody Drama Captures the Struggles of a Tequila Rancher
Juan Pablo González’s atmospheric narrative mixes story, performance and real life to portray a Mexico changed by the modern economy
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Sundance Names Eugene Hernandez Festival Director and Head of Public Programming
The current director of the New York Film Festival will join in November but begin leading the 2024 Sundance
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‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Film Review: Regina Hall Elevates Satirical Evangelical Mockumentary
The targets of writer-director Adamma Ebo’s comedy aren’t always clear, but Hall’s performance consistently hits the bullseye
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‘Breaking’ Film Review: Powerful Performances Outshine Dramatization of True-Life Tragedy
Whatever its narrative shortcomings, Abi Damaris Corbin’s feature debut spotlights a stellar ensemble, including John Boyega and the late Michael Kenneth Williams
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‘Resurrection’ Film Review: Rebecca Hall Keeps a Firm Grasp on Unsettling Familial Horror
Writer-director Andrew Semans’ script takes a big narrative swing, but Hall, Tim Roth and Grace Kaufman make it all seem believable
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‘Sharp Stick’ Film Review: Lena Dunham’s First Feature in a Decade Feels Overly Familiar
She’s left New York City behind for Malibu, but the writer-director seems to be stuck in her comfort zone
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‘A Love Song’ Film Review: Dale Dickey Delivers a Career-Best Performance in Transcendent Love Story
Dickey and Wes Studi bloom in the desert as widowed old friends tentatively seeking connection in Max Walker-Silverman’s impressive debut
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Sundance Announces Participants for Producers Lab and Producers Summit
The annual conferences are geared towards supporting emerging indie filmmakers
