
‘Lady’ Review: A Slender but Striking Nigerian Neo-Noir About Friendship, Gender and Sex Work
Olive Nwosu's first feature centers around a Lagos cab driver who accepts a gig shuttling her childhood friend and other sex workers around the city.
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‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ Review: A Vital Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, as Captured One Magical Evening in 1972
Premiering at Sundance, the documentary is compiled from footage taken by director David Greaves and his late father, William Greaves, of a gathering of Black luminaries in Duke Ellington's home.
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‘Saccharine’ Review: Midori Francis Navigates the Hallucinatory Minefield Between Body Image and Body Horror in Messy Weight-Loss Freakout
Australian writer-director Natalie Erika James hitches eating disorders and corporeal revulsion to the East Asian cultural concept of the Hungry Ghost.
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‘Rock Springs’ Review: Kelly Marie Tran and Benedict Wong in a Fresh, Vivid Spin on Grief Horror
Premiering in the Midnight section at Sundance, Vera Miao's film revolves around a young widow and her daughter attempting to start over in Wyoming.
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‘Run Amok’ Review: Ample Charm and Some Strong Performances Help Keep Messy School Shooting Dramedy Afloat
Alyssa Marvin, Margaret Cho, Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp, Molly Ringwald and Patrick Wilson lead the ensemble of NB Mager's Sundance-bowing debut feature.
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‘Nuisance Bear’ Review: Transfixing Study of Polar Bears in the Canadian Arctic Reflects on the Steep Two-Way Costs of Human Interaction
Winner of the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition’s Grand Jury Prize, Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden’s film is both a nature doc and a haunting ethnographic portrait.
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THR Film Critics Pick the Best of Sundance 2026
A queer horror film, a double dose of Olivia Wilde, a shocker about an 8-year-old sexual assault witness and docs on Salman Rushdie and Billie Jean King are among 15 faves.
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‘If I Go Will They Miss Me’ Review: Lyrical Dreams and Bittersweet Reality Collide in a Moving, Gorgeously Imagined Father-Son Drama
Writer-director Walter Thompson-Hernández brings a lightly surreal touch to a coming-of-age story about a family in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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‘Frank & Louis’ Review: Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan Bring Transcendent Grace to Prison Drama About Dignity and Compassion
Swiss writer-director Petra Volpe’s English-language debut is inspired by a California program in which incarcerated men are trained to care for elderly inmates with dementia.
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‘Shame and Money’ Review: A Tense and Crushing View of the Global Economy Through the Eyes of a Farmer in Kosovo
Directed by Visar Morina, the Sundance competition title stars Astrit Kabashi and Flonja Kodheli as rural people trying to stay afloat in the city.
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