‘Magazine Dreams’ Review: Jonathan Majors Explodes in a Deeply Unsettling Character Study
Sundance: The soon-to-be Marvel star is jaw-dropping in Elijah Bynum’s wrenching drama, but that leaves big shoes for everything else to fill.
Reviews
‘Cassandro’ Review: Gael García Bernal Is Fabulous in This Wild True Story of a Beloved Luchador
Sundance: The star soars in Roger Ross Williams’ wonderful narrative feature debut.
‘Aum: The Cult at the End of the World’ Review: A Broad if Chilling Look Inside Japan’s Infamous Doomsday Cult
Sundance: This well-sourced look at the group behind the Tokyo subway attack shines more light on cult tropes than it does on Aum itself.
’20 Days in Mariupol’ Review: An Unflinching Look at the True Price of Russia’s War on Ukraine
Sundance: Among the last journalists left in Ukraine after the invasion, Mystylav Chernov captures a horrifying portrait of destruction.
‘Heroic’ Review: Provocative Mexican Military Drama Takes Aim at Institutional Corruption
Sundance: David Zonana’s sophomore feature is a searing indictment of patriotism, groupthink, and masculinity.
‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: An Oddly Fractured Portrait
Sundance: Lana Wilson’s latest documentary divides Shields’ remarkable life into two distinct parts. Only one of them shows signs of actual reflection.
‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Review: Slighted Women’s Sexuality Pioneer Gets Her Due
Sundance: Dakota Johnson narrates this peppy documentary about the misunderstood author of the 1976 bestseller “The Hite Report.”
‘Fremont’ Review: A Dry, Sweet, Jarmusch-Inspired Comedy About an Afghan Translator Finding Her Voice
Sundance: Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington, and Afghan refugee Anaita Wali Zada help make this laconic indie feel quietly magical.
‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Review: A Likably Simple Documentary About a Lovably Complicated Actor
Sundance: “An Inconvenient Truth” director Davis Guggenheim shines a light on Michael J. Fox’s suffering without turning him into a martyr.
‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: The Iconoclastic Poet Gets a Complicated Documentary
Sundance: Filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson sometimes struggle to show the full breadth of Giovanni, but she’s already shared so much of herself with the world.
‘Against the Tide’ Review: Another Excellent, Insightful Indian Documentary About Life Itself
Sundance: Sarvnik Kaur’s powerful second feature blurs fiction and reality in a tale of friends torn by concerns of community and industry.
‘birth/rebirth’ Review: ‘Frankenstein’ Gets a Maternal Twist in Clever but Miscalculated Horror Debut
Sundance: Marin Ireland is a mad scientist who brings a dead girl back to life in a smart but sloppy horror film about the pressures of motherhood.
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