Colin Askey’s eye-opening documentary takes a firsthand look at a grassroots safe drug use site, humanizing those most affected by the worsening opioid crisis.
More than a dozen new films arrive this week, but few can measure up to the heady interest in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller.
Hlynur Pálmason’s latest maps the mental and physical decay of a 19th century Danish priest tasked with overseeing the construction of a church in a remote corner of Iceland.
Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge fend off end-times and hate crimes in M. Night Shyamalan’s weirdly conservative parable disguised as a home invasion thriller.
Lina’s verité film documents the fracturing of a nation and a friend group following the Arab Spring.
Sundance: Madeleine Gavin’s documentary is often messy and unfocused, but thrilling footage of North Korean defectors fleeing the country covers a multitude of sins.
Sundance: Qasim Basir’s story of death and addiction in a city on the rise is the kind of nuanced, stereotype-free portrayal of Detroit that has evaded Hollywood for far too long.
Sundance: D. Smith directs, edits, and shoots a luminous portrait of four Black trans women in all of their joy, pain, and beauty.
Sundance: The R&B artist and actress stuns in a Harlem drama that makes the case for more collaborations to come between her and Rockwell.
Sundance: “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education” director Cory Finley makes his first misstep with this airless satire about alien capitalism.
Sundance: Filmmaker Jacqueline Castel unleashes a cadre of tropes for her debut, but she smartly pulls them together into a unique new vision.
Sundance: Peter Nicks’ biography is torn between an NCAA tournament rewind and the present-day perspective from the Golden State Warriors’ franchise player.
