Tagged sundance film festival 2021

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. When asked at the airport whether she was in Los Angeles for business or pleasure, Bella Cherry (Sofia...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. In the aftermath of having their holiday home invaded, Jan (Mark Waschke), Nina (Sabrina Timoteo) and their...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Festival coverage. Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo takes viewers on a journey along with cryptozookeepers who set out to...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland stars Nicolas Cage as Hero, an infamous bank robber who is sprung...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “Horror is already out there, in all of us” is the answer in Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, which...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. From writer-director Siân Heder comes CODA, an impactful story that focuses on 17-year-old Ruby Rossi...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “You don’t think there’s a cage that can work to our benefit?” ponders Abigail (Katherine...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Festival coverage. Robin Wright’s directorial debut, Land, takes viewers on the journey of healing. Grief is something so...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Neighbours gather in front of Sebastian’s (Daniel Katz) door, their open umbrellas awkwardly competing...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Shaka King’s highly anticipated Judas and the Black Messiah takes us back to 1968 in Chicago, Illinois....

The classic Maltese luzzu has one big eye on each side of its front, a centuries-old tradition connected to good health and a way to manifest protection from the many dangers of the sea. The men who brave the...

When the cashier at a high-street shop compares Leo’s (Amalia Ulman) trendy looking animal print coat to the similarly patterned shirt he has on, the young woman offers a half-smile and blatantly says...

Kate Tsang’s Marvelous and the Black Hole follows troubled teenager Sammy Ko (Miya Cech) who is struggling to cope with the death of her mother. After being forced by her father (Leonardo Nam) to enrol in a...

“There is no normal in teenage years” utters a young girl as the sun goes down, her friends carrying cans of beer and chatting from the top of old, beaten trucks. It is a fitting observation to set the...

Hours before a meteor is due to decimate all life on Earth, Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones) crosses a deserted LA alongside an unusual sidekick: a younger version of herself (Cailee Spaeny). With a farewell party...