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‘10 Lives’ Review: Christopher Jenkins’ Cosy Family Animation Deals With Animal Magic And Loss – Sundance Film Festival
There's quite a lot going on beneath the shiny, fun surface of this animated comedy, though some of the questions it deals with — animal mortality, the world's fragile eco-system — might be too much for younger children to process. For older, smarter kids, it could be a gateway film, a way to turn young…
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By Damon Wise
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‘Orion And The Dark’ Review: Charlie Kaufman’s Amusing Script Livens Up Netflix’s Kids ‘Toon About Fears Among The Very Young
Taking a page out of the Pixar playbook and animating entities turned into characters, DreamWorks Animation’s latest feature Orion and the Dark recalls ‘toons like Inside Out and Elemental as it tells the story of a young kid and his encounters with his…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘Little Death’ Review: David Schwimmer Takes A Risk In A Satirical Psychodrama With A Twist – Sundance Film Festival
David Schwimmer makes a bold choice with this ambitious, if not entirely seamless psychodrama. Starting out as a hyperactive life-in-crisis movie, like a more melancholy, introspective Fight Club, it swaps horses in midstream with a shocking twist that will likely alienate any viewers seduced by seeing…
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By Damon Wise
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‘Argylle’ Review: Sam Rockwell Steals Matthew Vaughn’s Twisty Spy Thriller Lock, Stock And Barrel
Sam Rockwell probably isn’t anyone’s idea of a suave secret agent, but that seems to be just the point for director Matthew Vaughn. He cast the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Oscar winner against type and let him rip with a witty, eminently watchable performance that lets him steal every scene…
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By Pete Hammond
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Sundance Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The Sundance Film Festival has wrapped in snowy Park City, and Deadline was on the ground to watch all of the key films. Here is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which include festival award winners like Daughters, the documentary that took the Festival Favorite Award, and A Real Pain, which…
‘Daughters’ Review: The Bittersweet Bonds Between Fathers And Daughters Separated By Prison – Sundance Film Festival
Daughters is Natalie Rae and Angela Patton's odyssey documenting Patton's program that empowers girls of incarcerated men yields insight through the subjects themselves — carefree tweens enjoying their chance to just be kids.
Aubrey, Santana, Raziah and Ja'Ana open up on camera about cherishing…
‘Days Of Wine And Roses’ Broadway Review: Trying Times For Good Folk In Exemplary Production; Also, A Bouncy ‘Once Upon A Mattress’
It’s easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more – or at least have so much greater vocabularies – when it comes to things like toxic relationships and the role of abstinence in maintaining sobriety and all the other tenets of Bill W that have passed into common…
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By Greg Evans
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‘Sugarcane’ Review: A Documentary That Tackles Cultural Erasure And Community-Centered Reconciliation – Sundance Film Festival
With Sugarcane, filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie deliver a multilayered film that invites audiences to confront questions about morality and justice, and to bear witness to the lasting intergenerational trauma of the Williams Lake First Nations (Secwepemc or Shuswap Nation) people…
‘Luther: Never Too Much’ Review: Dawn Porter’s Tribute To An R&B Icon – Sundance Film Festival
Luther Vandross’ voice was the soundtrack of many Black millennial childhoods. Personally, I would wake up every Sunday to church music followed by his hit single “Never Too Much,” which still stops most people in their tracks to this day. In the documentary Luther: Never Too Much, director Dawn Porter…
‘Black Box Diaries’ Review: An Intimate Chronicle Of Resilience Against A Flawed System – Sundance Film Festival
In Black Box Diaries, director Shiori Ito confronts abuse but also a deeply flawed legal system. Her quest for justice begins in spring 2015. Then a young intern at Thomson Reuters, Ito found herself in a nightmarish situation with Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a prominent media figure with political connections in…
‘The Underdoggs’ Review: It’s Snoop Dogg Meets ‘Bad News Bears’ In Very R-Rated, Foul-Mouthed And Funny Kid-Centric Football Movie
If you have any doubt about exactly what you are in for with Snoop Dogg’s first-ever starring role in a mainstream movie, The Underdoggs, you won’t after seeing the disclaimer that pops up on screen at the start of the film.
THE FOLLOWING MOVIE IS RATED-R FOR STRONG LANGUAGE THAT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘Dig! XX’ Review: Ondi Timoner’s Outstanding 2004 Rock Doc Is Back For More – Sundance Film Festival
At the height of its failure, every day was Altamont for the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the San Francisco outfit founded in 1990 by Anton Newcombe, the Klaus Kinski of psychedelic rock. Just in time for this 20th anniversary overhaul of Ondi Timoner's…
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By Damon Wise
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