‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’ Review: Witty and Scalding
For some of us, “American Fiction” has a satirical audacity that’s funny right out of the gate, gathers speed and force on the runway — and then, somehow, just when …
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An Unexpectedly Emotional Zombie Movie
If zombies weren’t so fixated on eating our brains, perhaps they’d be poignant to have around: semi-living, semi-breathing semblances of people we’ve loved, there to be seen and held and …
Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story from the Ghost’s POV
“Presence,” a ghost story directed by Steven Soderbergh, is set entirely inside a lovely, renovated, 100-year-old suburban home, and before the characters even have a chance to move in, the …
Doc About AI Bust Says More About Its Creators
A robotic bust with a face modeled on a middle-aged woman who responds to questions using ChatGPT technology, Bina48 is a rather strange concoction. She sounds passably smart but definitely …
Jesse Eisenberg’s Sasquatch Sunset Weirds Out Sundance With Sex, Vomit
“Sasquatch Sunset” is the kind of movie you need to see to believe. Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough star in the absurdist comedy, which premiered on Friday at the Sundance …
Sundance 2024: Brief History of a Family – Chinese drama exposing tensions in a ‘perfect’ post-one-child-policy family is impersonal and unsettling
Review | Sundance 2024: Brief History of a Family – Chinese drama exposing tensions in a ‘perfect’ post-one-child-policy family is impersonal and unsettling 3.5/5 stars Premiering in the World Cinema …
Searchlight Debuting Laura Linney Drama ‘Suncoast’ in Theaters
Laura Chinn’s “Suncoast” is getting a theatrical release ahead of its previously announced debut on Hulu and other Disney streaming platforms. The Searchlight Pictures Film, an intensely personal, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age …
Malia Obama makes red carpet debut at Sundance Film Festival for ‘The Heart’
Malia Obama made her red carpet debut at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday night ahead of the premiere of her short film, “The Heart.” The eldest daughter of former US …
A Miscast Melissa Barrera Bonds With a Beast
If Ann Landers had it right, and hanging on to resentment amounts to letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head, then “Your Monster” is what happens when you …
Sundance Film Festival turns 40
The 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, one of the premier launching pads for independent filmmakers and documentarians from around the world, opens today in Utah. The festival, which …