Joyland | Sundance 2023
By Kent Turner February 10, 2023
Of the dozen or so narrative films seen at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this expansive and novelistic film from Pakistan takes the prize as the most illuminating.
Of the dozen or so narrative films seen at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this expansive and novelistic film from Pakistan takes the prize as the most illuminating.
Melancholy and tentative hope are stitched together in a bittersweet story of a Moroccan tailor shop and the three lonely yet interwoven souls within.
Like in his 2018 Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new movie brings together social outcasts who form an unconventional familial bond.
Darren Aronofsky’s workmanlike approach to an Off-Broadway play recalls many 1950s film adaptations of Broadway hits.
Understated and deceptively breezy, Mia Hansen-Løve’s new film accumulates nuanced moments that add up to a subtly powerful, satisfying work.
Set on the Andean plateau, Utama takes the conventions of the Western genre in a different direction.
There were a lot of discoveries among the titles presented in the festival’s 60th edition that should not be missed when they are officially released.
A mother, caught in a moral quandary, discovers that her prodigal son might not be the man she had believed him to be.
Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film stands out for its perspective, that of a single woman at an age when it becomes much harder to make lifelong friends or to enter into entangled relationships that yield deep histories.