Downhill Racer: Redford's Cold Inheritance

Sundance’s decision to screen Michael Ritchie’s 1969 masterpiece as a tribute to Robert Redford—the festival’s founder, who passed away in September 2025—transformed a repertory showing into ceremony. Watching Downhill Racer in Park City, surrounded by…

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Antiheroine: Courtney Love Makes Music Again

Edward Lovelace and James Hall follow Courtney Love in London since 2019. The film presents something rarely found in celebrity documentation: genuine uncertainty. Neither hagiography nor excavation, this is a document of a woman negotiating…

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The Shitheads: Failure as Starting Point

Macon Blair's The Shitheads announces itself with title and intent: this is cinema willing to treat failure and the criminal underclasses with the same attention cinema usually reserves for the ambitious. Dave Franco and O'Shea…

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The Gallerist: Satire Without A Target

Cathy Yan tries to build a satire of the art world around a Miami gallery owner. Natalie Portman plays Diane, a woman whose taste has been compromised by necessity. The setup has potential. Yan has…

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The Last First: Winter K2: The Summit as Content

Amir Bar-Lev documents the first winter ascent of K2 (2020-2021) and creates a film that's less about reaching the summit than about what happens to mountaineering when every moment becomes content. Between the climbing sequences,…

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