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Three documentaries premiering at the year’s film festival marry the personal with the political. Ryan White’s “Come See Me In The Good Light” follows spoken word performer and Colorado’s Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson and their partner Megan Falley during Gibson’s years-long fight against cancer. Elegance Bratton’s “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” looks at…

Dan Fogelman became one of the most successful creators of his era with the wildly popular “This is Us,” and his latest project reunites him with the star of that NBC hit, the wildly talented Sterling K. Brown. “Paradise,” now launched on Hulu, is a hybrid that doesn’t always connect its different elements, attempting to…

The worst feeling is when you have high hopes for a few films, only to see them be varyingly disappointing. The three films here remind you how important a good script is, one that develops itself beyond being simply an interesting concept into a form that invites interpretation. It’s all worth noting that sometimes a…

Some dispatches out of Sundance are built around themes, premiere dates, or even locations. Sometimes it’s just three good movies. This is one of those. An undeniable standout of this year’s Sundance is Max Walker-Silverman’s (“A Love Song”) excellent “Rebuilding,” a timely story of hope and community in the face of unimaginable loss. It’s a…

Three films in the World Cinema Documentary Competition tell stories from countries in the midst of conflict. Mstyslav Chernov’s “2000 Meters From Andriivka” follows the Ukrainian counteroffensive as it seeks to liberate the titular village. In “Cutting Through Rocks,” co-directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni profile a politician fighting for progress within her patriarchal rural…