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Complete coverage from the non-fiction side of Park City.
(Photo: Jonathan Hickerson, courtesy of Sundance)

One in a Million Review: A 10-Year Migration Saga Both Epic and Intimate

by Pat Mullen
January 30, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

Follow a young woman named Isra'a over a ten-year journey in One in a Million as her family flees Syria only to confront the cost of freedom.

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Public Access Review: Giving the Boob Tube Its Due

by Pat Mullen
January 30, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

Public Access offers a trip through the archives of Manhattan Cable's public programming that's a feat of editing, albeit one that sticks to the obvious.

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All About the Money Review: Money Can’t Buy You Out of a Rude Awakening

by Jason Gorber
January 30, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

Fergie Chambers and his life of empty privilege goes under the microscope as he moves from one shiny new thing to the next in All About the Money.

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Nuisance Bear, To Hold a Mountain Lead Sundance Award Winners

by Pat Mullen
January 30, 2026
News/Sundance

Sundance winners include Nuisance Bear and To Hold a Mountain for the Grand Jury Prizes for U.S. and World Cinema Documentary.

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A man bends down beside the railing of a bridge, examining a dummy shaped like a human body.

Closure Review: A Devastating Portrait of Grief and Love

by Pat Mullen
January 30, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

A father searches the river for his 16-year-old son in Closure following his disappearance in this devastating study of grief and mental health.

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American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez Review – The Man Behind La Bamba’s Beat

by Jason Gorber
January 30, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

The story of the filmmaker who brought renewed attention to Ritchie Valens in La Bamba gets his due in American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez.

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Joybubbles Review: Don’t Hold the Phone for this Biopic

by Jason Gorber
January 30, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

Joybubbles, the story of a blind telephone wunderkind, fuels a half-baked biography that never really gets inside its subject.

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Kikuyu Land Review: A Plantation of Corruption

by Courtney Small
January 29, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

The fight to reclaim land taken amid the colonization of Kenya fuels Kikuyu Land, an important documentary with a few too many threads.

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A view of Great Salt Lake as a dust storm carries carcinogens to neighbouring areas.

The Lake Review: Is It all Over If the Canary Can No Longer Sing?

by Pat Mullen
January 29, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

The disappearance of Great Salt Lake and the ensuing dust storms that threaten neighbouring areas provide an urgent call to action in the powerful documentary The Lake.

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TheyDream Review: All in the Family, Re-Animated

by Pat Mullen
January 28, 2026
Reviews/Sundance

One family's story fuels a lifetime of memories and animated remembrances in TheyDream, William D. Caballero's loving ode to those who raised him.

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