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January 26, 2020 10:34 am

Adrienne (Sienna Miller) and Matteo (Diego Luna) are a couple whose relationship is disintegrating. Even with the inclusion of a new baby girl Ellie, mistrust ...

'Promising Young Woman': A Darkly Funny & Wildly Provocative Revenge Thriller [Sundance Review]

Jason Bailey

January 26, 2020 9:54 am

There is a scene, about midway through Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman,” in which a man pulls his truck up next to our heroine, Cassie (Carey ...

Filmmaker Julie Sokolow On Climate Change & Documentaries [Indie Beat Podcast]

Christopher Bell

January 26, 2020 9:49 am

Feast your ears on a new episode of Indie Beat. On this installment we spoke to filmmaker Julie Sokolow. READ MORE: The 25 Best Movies ...

Roger Deakins Surprises No One By Winning The Top 2020 ASC Award For 1917

January 26, 2020 3:10 am

In a result that was preordained, Roger Deakins took his fifth competitive ASC Award for a Theatrical Release. It turned out to be the second ...

Sam Mendes Wins Top 2020 DGA Award For '1917'

January 26, 2020 2:28 am

The race for Best Picture took an interesting turn tonight as Sam Mendes took the top DGA Award prize for Best Director of a Feature ...

Brandon Cronenberg's 'Possessor' Is A Wild, Tech-Fueled Fever Dream [Sundance Review]

January 26, 2020 1:00 am

Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a deadly contract killer, who works for a secretive biotech company run by a former hired gun Girder (Jennifer Jason ...

'Dick Johnson Is Dead': Director Kirsten Johnson Returns With A Witty, Bright-Eyed Doc [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

January 26, 2020 12:30 am

During 2019's Best of the Decade listicle blitzkrieg, amid all the rancorous wrangling over rankings, a few truths emerged: Paul Thomas Anderson needs to clone ...

'Herself': A Delicately Empathetic Portrayal Of Rebuilding Your Self [Sundance Review]

Dilara Elbir

January 25, 2020 9:32 pm

Phyllida Lloyd's first film since "The Iron Lady," the filmmaker/theatre director's serious follow up to the more operatic jukebox candy of "Mama Mia," her latest film, "Herself," is ...

The Ross Brothers’ Boozy, Immersive ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ Is A Barfly’s Happy-Sad Lament [Sundance Review]

Chris Barsanti

January 25, 2020 7:57 pm

An improvised Eugene O’Neill ensemble barfly riff wrapped in the construct of a seemingly fly-on-the-wall documentary about the last day at an off-Strip Las Vegas ...

‘The Gentlemen’ Can’t Stop ‘Bad Boys’ While ‘The Turning’ Earns Audience Contempt [Box Office]

Charles Barfield

January 26, 2020 1:09 pm

Box Office, News

As we all expected, not even the combined efforts of Guy Ritchie’s return to the crime genre and a new horror film were able to topple Will Smith and Martin Lawrence at this weekend’s box office, as “Bad Boys ...

‘Black Bear’ With Aubrey Plaza & Christopher Abbott Is Splintered, Madly Hysterical & Intoxicating [Sundance Review]

January 26, 2020 1:07 pm

A woman in a red swimsuit sits on a wooden pier in the murky fog, only to later walk into a room, sit at a table, and write in her notebook. Lawrence Michael Levine uses the same sequence three separate times ...

‘Cuties’ Is An Uneven, But Ambitious Coming-Of-Age Tale About Social Media Exhibitionism [Sundance Review]

Andrew Bundy

January 26, 2020 12:12 pm

After putting the finishing touches on hand-cut, homemade arts and crafts project for her mother, 11-year-old Amy (Fathia Youssouf), and her younger brother, start arguing over who gets the bigger bedroom of t...

‘Hillary’: ‘Radical Feminist’ Hillary Clinton Is Chronicled For History’s Sake In Hulu Doc Series [Sundance Review]

January 26, 2020 11:57 am

Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

PARK CITY – The first thing you need to know about “Hillary,” Nanette Burstein’s new documentary series about Hillary Clinton, is that it would be surprising if it changed your opinion about a public figure wh...

‘Kajillionaire’ Is Event-Horizon Miranda July—In Fantastic And Frustrating Ways [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

January 26, 2020 11:42 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

"They're my parents," says Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) in a flat, affectless rasp, blinking out incredulously from behind the barely-parted drapes of her mousy, waist-length hair. "In what sense?" shoots back...

‘Whirlybird’ Documents Our Problematic Obsession With Breaking News [Sundance Review]

Jonathan Christian

January 26, 2020 11:11 am

Los Angeles. A city that looks like heaven from the sky and hell from the streets below. Whether you refer to the entertainment-fueled landscape as LA, the Southland, or the City of Angels, the Californian met...

‘Wander Darkly’: Love Disintegrates For Sienna Miller & Diego Luna In A Surrealist Romance [Sundance Review]

January 26, 2020 10:34 am

Adrienne (Sienna Miller) and Matteo (Diego Luna) are a couple whose relationship is disintegrating. Even with the inclusion of a new baby girl Ellie, mistrust pervades their relationship. Like many soon-to-be...

‘Promising Young Woman’: A Darkly Funny & Wildly Provocative Revenge Thriller [Sundance Review]

Jason Bailey

January 26, 2020 9:54 am

Features, News, Reviews

There is a scene, about midway through Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman,” in which a man pulls his truck up next to our heroine, Cassie (Carey Mulligan), and throws a few choice words her way, inc...

Filmmaker Julie Sokolow On Climate Change & Documentaries [Indie Beat Podcast]

Christopher Bell

January 26, 2020 9:49 am

Interviews, News, Podcasts

Feast your ears on a new episode of Indie Beat. On this installment we spoke to filmmaker Julie Sokolow. READ MORE: The 25 Best Movies Of 2020 We’ve Already Seen Sokolow hit the scene in 2015 with her fi...

Roger Deakins Surprises No One By Winning The Top 2020 ASC Award For 1917

January 26, 2020 3:10 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

In a result that was preordained, Roger Deakins took his fifth competitive ASC Award for a Theatrical Release. It turned out to be the second big win of the night for "1917" after director Sam Mendes won the D...

Sam Mendes Wins Top 2020 DGA Award For ‘1917’

January 26, 2020 2:28 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The race for Best Picture took an interesting turn tonight as Sam Mendes took the top DGA Award prize for Best Director of a Feature Film for "1917." The Universal Release has now won both the PGA Award and th...

Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Possessor’ Is A Wild, Tech-Fueled Fever Dream [Sundance Review]

January 26, 2020 1:00 am

Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a deadly contract killer, who works for a secretive biotech company run by a former hired gun Girder (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The organization carries out their kills by kidnap...

‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’: Director Kirsten Johnson Returns With A Witty, Bright-Eyed Doc [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

January 26, 2020 12:30 am

During 2019's Best of the Decade listicle blitzkrieg, amid all the rancorous wrangling over rankings, a few truths emerged: Paul Thomas Anderson needs to clone himself; a depressing number of people are willin...

‘Herself’: A Delicately Empathetic Portrayal Of Rebuilding Your Self [Sundance Review]

Dilara Elbir

January 25, 2020 9:32 pm