Film-Forward

Performances by Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, and Mia Goth stood out at Sundance this year. 

Writer/director Raven Jackson’s debut feature reveals a perceptive and immensely talented filmmaker. The pleasures here are mainly mined from the visual and aural details.

In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.

Obviously improvised by its adult cast members to the point of repetition, the flabby film rambles on, like an uninspired Saturday Night Live sketch.

Plenty of films at the festival will be readily available in the next several months, such as these three.

There is still life in the kids-in-competition documentary mini-genre, here focusing on the prestigious 2021 International Chopin Piano Prize.

An espionage film that dramatizes the epic struggle between politics and religion in the modern age.

Lukas Dhont’s second feature explores the fallout from the sudden implosion of a friendship between two boys.

Philippe Le Guay’s taut thriller is about a subject all too relevant today: denialism.