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Sundance 2016: ‘How to Tell You’re a Douchebag’ Lives Up to its Amazing Title and Then Some
How to Tell You’re a Douchebag Written and Directed by Tahir Jetter U.S., 2016 The main character, Ray Livingston, has a job that seemingly only exists in film. He runs some dating blogs, and somehow makes a living from it. Scenes predominantly feature young people who seemingly have nothing but free time to walk around and talk […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Miles Ahead’ is Only Halfway There
Miles Ahead Written by Don Cheadle and Steven Baigelman Directed by Don Cheadle U.S., 2016 Miles Ahead is a film that is divided in half in both structure and quality. On one hand, you have Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) during an extended hiatus from recording music wallowing in self-pity and drugs when he falls in with […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Certain Women’ Reaffirms Kelly Reichardt as One of the Greatest Working American Filmmakers
Certain Women Written and Directed by Kelly Reichardt U.S., 2016 When the credits started rolling, I leaned over to my friend and asked him what he thought. He said he was still processing the film. It was an appropriate response. As we walked out of the theater, he remarked that as the night went on and he […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Holy Hell’ is a Fascinating, Powerful First-Hand Account of the Rise and Deterioration of a Cult
What makes a faith hold together, and is it the same thing that causes it to fall apart? When people get torn apart, can there still have been some good to have come out of it? Filmmaker Will Allen spent 22 years in a small cult called The Buddhafield, and the film documents his time […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘First Girl I Loved’ is an Emotional, Romantic Experience
First Girl I Loved Written & Directed by Kerem Sanga USA, 2016 Oh, to be young and in love again. The rapture and frustration of it all is what drives the frenzied current of writer/director Kerem Sanga’s First Girl I Loved. 17 year-old Anne (Dylan Gelula) has just developed a crush on Sasha (Brianna Hildebrand), star […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Carnage Park’ Tries and Fails Miserably to Attain Midnight Cult Classic Glory
The Midnight section of Sundance has been home to such immediate, violent cult classics in years past such as Blue Ruin, Cold in July, The Guest, Saw and many others. Carnage Park is the type of film that is clearly designed with the intention of joining the ranks of those films, yet is so poorly […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Morris from America’ is Predictable, but has Charm in Lead Markees Christmas
Morris from America Written and Directed by Chad Hartigan U.S., 2016 Having done well at the festival back in 2013 with This is Martin Bonner, writer/director Chad Hartigan returns to Sundance with Morris from America, a mostly generic crowd-pleaser with a good amount of charm. The plot follows young 13-year old African-American Morris Gentry (Markees Christmas), as he moves […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Kate Plays Christine’ is a Fascinating, if Manipulative, Look at Sensationalism and Reenactment
Kate Plays Christine Directed by Robert Greene U.S., 2016 One of the interesting things about Sundance this year is that two different films about the same subject matter have screened. In 1974 in Sarasota, Florida, TV reporter Christine Chubbuck shot herself on camera, an incident that reportedly served as an inspiration for Network. There was […] More
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Sundance 2016: Why is ‘Outlaws and Angels’ Playing at Sundance?
Outlaws and Angels Written and Directed by JT Mollner U.S., 2016 It’s a simple fact that not every movie seen at Sundance is going to blow our minds and change the way we regard the human condition, that some films are just going to be middle of the road good, and that’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘The Greasy Strangler’ is Not The Trash-terpiece You’re Looking For
The Greasy Strangler Written by Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking Directed by Jim Hosking U.S., 2016 I wanted to walk out of the screening with the third of the audience that eventually had by the time the credits began rolling, but at the same time I couldn’t take my eyes off what was happening. The Greasy […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Land of Mine’ is a Tense, Nerve-Wracking Experience
Land of Mine Written and Directed by Martin Zandvliet Denmark, 2015 Land of Mine shines a light on a portion of WWII history largely overlooked by cinema. At the end of the war, thousands of German POWs, many of them young boys, were forced to dig up and disarm 2 million mines across the coast of […] More
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Sundance 2016: ‘Christine’ is a Haunting Character Study With a Career Best Performance from Rebecca Hall
Christine Written by Craig Shilowich Directed by Antonio Campos U.S., 2016 One of the big stories to come out of Sundance this year is that there are two films programmed about the same subject. In 1974, Florida TV reporter Christine Chubbuck killed herself on-air. At the time of this writing, I have not seen the documentary […] More
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