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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

  • A man and woman on a scooter

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

23 January 2024

  • a man and a woman in a car

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • man sitting in a lecture hall

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

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?

    The new documentary War Game follows lawmakers and military officials role-playing the response to a political coup
  • A still from Presence.

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

    The director tells a haunted house tale from the perspective of the spirit in a visually interesting yet dramatically underwhelming gambit
  • Chris Smalls in Union

    Documentary uncovers the difficult battle to unionize at Amazon

    Union, premiering at this year’s Sundance film festival, shows the workers trying to organize for better treatment and the company’s attempts to fight them

21 January 2024

  • 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

  • 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

  • Man wearing suit looks back.

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

  • A girl sits on a log next to a woman.

    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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