Sundance 2012: Filly Brown review
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ From directors Yousser Delara and Michael D. Olmos comes Filly Brown (2012), a fictional tale of a promising Latino rapper trying to...
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1 February 2021
Sundance 2021: In the Same Breath review
Advertisements ★★★★★ In the Same Breath, Nanfu Wang’s searing expose of the origins of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its pursuant handling by the...
1 February 2021
Sundance 2021: Captains of Zaatari review
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Tell any football fan that ‘It’s just a game’ and they are likely to give you very short shrift. But for close...
31 January 2021
Sundance 2021: At the Ready review
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Building bridges between the past, present and future of three Latinx teens in El Paso, Texas, Maisie Crow’s At the Ready investigates...
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Sundance 2012: LUV review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ From debut director Sheldon Candis comes LUV (2012), and unconventional crime drama set on the mean, crab-filled streets of Baltimore. Candis largely...
Sundance 2012: For Ellen review
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Regardless of others involved, a new film starring US indie darling Paul Dano will always be an intriguing prospect. Having broken onto...
Sundance 2012: Chasing Ice review
Advertisements ★★★★★ Easily one of the most eagerly-anticipated films to feature in this year’s inaugural Sundance London festival programme was the National Geographic-funded documentary...
Sundance 2012: Finding North review
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Thanks to the enormous popularising influence of filmmaker Michael Moore, American ‘social issue’ documentaries can now be found in relative abundance. Taking...
Sundance 2012: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty review
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Perhaps the most unconventional film in this year’s Sundance London programme, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012) plays out as director Terrence...
Sundance 2012: Nobody Walks review
Advertisements ★☆☆☆☆ If this year’s inaugural Sundance London can be accused of exporting some of its US counterpart’s more underwhelming films, then Ry Russo-Young’s...
Sundance 2012: The Queen of Versailles review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles (2012) takes an alternative perspective on the recent economic crisis to befall America by examining the...