Sundance 2013: Top five films of the festival (and more)
Another Sundance, another 27 films reviewed. Though this is only my third year, Sundance 2013 is by far the greatest one I attended ...
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Sundance Review: Lovelace
Pornography is a dirty business and I’m not strictly speaking about the clean-up crew. One doesn’t have to deeply penetrate the industry to ...
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Sundance Review: The Gatekeepers
In Israel’s Shin Bet, I find an intelligence agency not so different from the CIA. In Israel’s religious zealots, I find an extremist ...
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Sundance Review: Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes
Throughout the entirety of Sundance, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes was the only movie I didn’t take any notes on. I guess ...
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Sundance Review: The Way, Way Back
The losers of high school dramas are cooler than me. Anthony Michael Hall and Jesse Eisenberg would be my high school’s presidents, not ...
Sundance Review: Very Good Girls
Dakota Fanning is now old enough to play the role of the older sister and it freaks me out. Witnessing a child actor, ...
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Sundance Review: Magic Magic
Some laugh at what scares them. This act can be perceived as obnoxious and puzzling to someone else in a theater, but it ...
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Sundance Review: A.C.O.D.
No longer just an alternative, divorce is practically inevitable. A.C.O.D. is a feel-good comedy with a cynical stance on marriage. Writer-director Stuart Zicherman ...
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Sundance Review: The Spectacular Now
Sutter is the life of the party, and the joke of his high school. He is the embodiment of our YOLO teen culture. ...
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Review: Don Jon
Our rabid consumption of media informs our lives and habits as much as our upbringing. For Jon, that media obsession is porn. When ...
Review: Upstream Color
Part of me wants to wait until I fully understand every facet of Upstream Color before I review it, but a larger part ...
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Review: Stoker
[This review was originally posted as part of our 2013 Sundance Film Festival coverage. It has been reposted to coincide with the film’s ...