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A Love Song – Review

This film was previously reviewed in January 2022 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Max Walker-Silverman’s debut feature, A Love Song, centres around two childhood sweethearts, Faye (Dale...
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Pleasure – Review

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...
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Human Factors – Review

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...
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Nanny – Sundance 2022 Review

Awarded with Sundance 2022’s Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic category, Sierra Leonean-American writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny is a chilling account of Black immigrant mothers’ sociopolitical...
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AM I OK? – Sundance 2022 Review

Directors Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro have brought to life the true story of friendship between producer Jessica Elbaum and writer Lauren Pomerantz in their debut feature, AM I OK?. Jane (Sonoya Mizuno)...
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Speak No Evil – Sundance 2022 Review

Christian Tafdrup’s first ever horror film, Speak No Evil, follows a Danish family who befriend a fellow travelling Dutch family while on holiday and are subsequently invited to the Netherlands for a weekend...
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Dual – Sundance 2022 Review

Riley Stearns’ Dual introduces us to a world that is, for all intents and purposes, just like ours, except for one major difference: a cloning service called Replacement. After being diagnosed with a rare...
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FRESH – Sundance 2022 Review

Mimi Cave’s debut film FRESH shows the jaded Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) scrolling through an endless sea of faces on dating apps and sitting through a mind-numbing first date, but just when all hope seems lost,...
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Watcher – Sundance 2022 Review

Chloe Okuno’s Watcher follows Julia (Maika Monroe) who joins her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman), when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Unable to speak the language and stuck at...
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Cha Cha Real Smooth – Sundance 2022

Writer-director and star of Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, plays Andrew, a recent college graduate who moves back home and begins working as a bar mitzvah party starter. He’s lost until befriending...
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Resurrection – Sundance 2022

Writer-director Andrew Semans's Resurrection has Rebecca Hall as Margaret leading a successful and balanced life, but this carefully crafted homeostasis is disturbed when she sees an unwelcome presence from...
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Fire of Love – Sundance 2022

Narrated by the incredible Miranda July, Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love is an ode to the daring French volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who spent their lives chasing volcanic eruptions...