Reviews of President, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, and Searchers from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Keep ReadingReviewing Sundance docs At the Ready ("a rave and intimate portrait of America’s youths"), Homeroom ("conveys a sense of optimism"), and Taming the Garden (" striking, surreal').
Keep ReadingKevin Macdonald offers the ultimate COVID-19 supercut with Life in a Day 2020, but this crowd-sourced doc is a case of quantity over quality as the montage create a simplified portrait of
Keep ReadingA standout selection at Sundance, Misha and the Wolves is a twist-upon-twist, reveal-after-after, jaw-on-the-floor thrill ride. It's a wild-but-true story masterfully told about the art of deception and the cost of lies.
Keep ReadingSundance 2021 winners include Flee and Summer of Soul with the Grand Jury Prizes for Documentary.
Keep ReadingReviews of Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It, Bring Your Own Brigade, Faya Dayi, and Playing with Sharks from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Keep Reading"I think most people’s relationship to technology has shifted through the pandemic. On the one hand, we’re very grateful that we have the technology we have and, at the same time, I
Keep ReadingSundance reviews for Cusp ("bold and bracing portrait of youth"), Ailey ("a beautiful act of remembering"), and Sons of Monarchs ("a provocative experiment in metamorphosis").
Keep Reading"It felt like I was watching freedom on the stage—these beautiful diverse bodies in motion. It felt like an opening, like I was leaning in the whole evening and it just stayed
Keep ReadingSundance reviews for Flee ("documents the unfilmable"), Rebel Hearts ("entertaining and vivid"), and The Most Beautiful Boy in the World ("adopts an undercurrent of homophobia").
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