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,…
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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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Louis Paxton's The Incomer is a film about the violence of bureaucracy and what happens to human development when isolation is absolute. Set on a remote Scottish island, it begins with a premise that could…
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Olivia Wilde's The Invite is a dinner party film that remembers what Edward Albee understood: that marriage is where civility dies in real time. Written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, the film channels that…
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Selina Miles documents a weaponized legal system. Defamation law, designed to protect reputation, has become a tool for powerful people to silence critics. The film follows human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson defending victims whose only…
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Joanna Natasegara directed The White Helmets . She won an Oscar. Now she's made The Disciple , a film about a Dutch-Moroccan named Cilvaringz who has spent his life devoted to Wu-Tang Clan. Not as…
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Daniel Roher’s The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist arrives as a brisk, visually maximalist primer on artificial intelligence for an audience presumed to know very little about the subject. A father-to-be attempts…
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Judit Polgár was the greatest chess player of her generation. Yet her historical reckoning has always been shadowed by gender instead of achievement. Rory Kennedy's documentary captures the Hungarian grandmaster caught between Cold War sports…
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THUNDERLIPS is Sean Wallace and Jordan Mark Windsor. Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant is their film about two isolated people who have sex and something extraterrestrial happens. It sounds silly. It is. But underneath the body…
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