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Find below links to all of our coverage of this year’s Sundance, broken out by program. The reviews are written by Brian Tallerico, Robert Daniels, Marya E. Gates, Zachary Lee, Monica Castillo, and Cristina Escobar. (Note: If a link isn’t active yet, the review is still forthcoming.) Eva Victor appears in Sorry, Baby by Eva…

Although the narrative features have left something to be desired, Sundance consistently delivers on the documentary front (some of 2024’s most acclaimed documentaries, such as “Daughters,” “Black Box Diaries,” and “Union,” all premiered at last year’s festival). I’ve already named three docs worth checking out that are scattered across the other categories. Still, this trio…

The phrase “the personal is political” remains as true today as it did in its heyday. The statement from the second feminist wave of the 1960s highlights how incorrectly labeled “personal” problems may be traced to a political source. Many recent documentaries are making those connections, showing how politics has shaped people’s lives in both…

At first, I bundled these three films together under a thin umbrella of stories of crime and criminals, but the good news is there’s something deeper here. They’re all projects that actually share a much richer commonality: Brave new ways to tell stories of violence. One is told almost entirely in body-cam footage; one is…

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Age of Adaline”“Apollo 13”“Dune”“Hereditary”“Inception”“Interstellar”“Lion”“Melancholia”“Schindler’s List”“Snowpiercer” 12 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “The Cell” (Arrow) In the wake of the massive critical success of films like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Se7en,” (coincidentally also in this month’s column), Tarsem’s “The Cell” was greeted with a shrug. Most critics dismissed it as style…