A Conversation with Joel Potrykus & Joshua Burge (VULCANIZADORA) A Conversation with Reed Birney, Kieron Moore & Elliot Tuttle (BLUE FILM) Q & A with Olivia Wilde from SIFF ’26 Closing Night (THE ...

A Conversation with Joel Potrykus & Joshua Burge (VULCANIZADORA) A Conversation with Reed Birney, Kieron Moore & Elliot Tuttle (BLUE FILM) Q & A with Olivia Wilde from SIFF ’26 Closing Night (THE ...

A Conversation with Joel Potrykus & Joshua Burge (VULCANIZADORA) A Conversation with Reed Birney, Kieron Moore & Elliot Tuttle (BLUE FILM) Q & A with Olivia Wilde from SIFF ’26 Closing Night (THE ...

Brazilian director Walter Salles has made a number of powerful, expertly crafted films over his career, including the 1998 Central Station and 2004 The Motorcycle Diaries. He’s back now, after a ...

Everybody to Kenmure Street (which I recently reviewed), from director Felipe Bustos Sierra (Nae Pasaran), just premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary highlights a 2021 protest ...

Union County is a drama about the opioid epidemic that does something rare: it focuses on recovery rather than despair. Writer-director Adam Meeks’s feature debut follows Cody Parsons (Will Poulter), ...

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Few American filmmakers have shown as consistent a dedication to portraying marginalized communities with dignity and complexity as Sean Baker. From his early collaboration with Shih-Ching Tsou on ...

Noted documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) makes his fiction-feature debut with The End, a post-apocalyptic musical starring Bronagh Gallagher, Moses Ingram, Lennie James, George ...

Tunisian director Amel Guellaty just premiered her feature-film debut, Where the Wind Comes From, at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (where I reviewed it). The movie offers striking visuals and a ...

Pleasure, one of the most provocative films of Sundance 2021 finally makes its theatrical debut from Neon this spring. The film follows Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel), “fresh off the plane” from Sweden ...

Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, whose plays The Sensuality Party and Growth made their mark in the theater world, has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices. After establishing himself ...