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 ...
Tag: Festival Films
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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 ...
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Sundance Review: Big Sur
It was the public’s idolization of Jack Kerouac that spurred him to move to a remote cabin and write Big Sur. It’s funny ...
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Sundance Review: Before Midnight
There is an ebb and flow to the laughter between the men and women of my theater, during Before Midnight. As Jesse makes ...
Sundance Review: Sound City
An hour into Sound City, the film takes an unexpected detour, suddenly documenting a jam session between David Grohl and friends instead of ...
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Sundance Review: Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is so forgettable a film that I started forgetting the plot while watching. Never to fear, all ...
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Sundance Review: Mud
Jeff Nichols’ films pay homage to a part of the south rarely represented in film. The small towns of Arkansas and Mississippi, where ...
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Sundance Review: Virtually Heroes
There was once a time when videogame enthusiasts were happy to see the presence of games represented on the big screen, anyway they ...
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Sundance Review: Kill Your Darlings
I’m always grateful when a film reminds me of that unmistakable feeling of being attached to a seat cushion, physically changed by the ...
Sundance Review: The Look of Love
I can forgive The Look of Love for operating within cliches and stereotypes of the ’70s, because porn mogul Paul Raymond is one ...
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Sundance Review: The World According to Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney’s influence on America over the past decade is unparalleled. With each successive year of living with bossy TSA guards, unwarranted surveillance, ...