"For the first time, New Frontier curator Shari Frilot has a venue in which she can put together a coherent show, and she has come through with smarts and élan." As Amy Taubin explains at Artforum
"Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest is a love letter to the influential hip-hop group, directed by actor and Tribe superfan Michael Rapaport," blogs David Fear for Time Out
"Sundance has upped its documentary quotient this year by starting a non-competition Documentary Premieres section for veteran directors," noted Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times just as the festival
Jamie Stuart spent much of his time in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival shooting interviews for Filmmaker and has now edited his "Masterpiece" (Quicktime here). As for who you'll be looking
Whatever you think of Ronald Reagan — the man, the actor, the president — that is one hell of a movie poster. It's for Eugene Jarecki's Reagan, of course, airing tonight on HBO following the documentary
"Curtis (Michael Shannon), the central figure of Jeff Nichols's powerful, enigmatic drama Take Shelter, is living in the grip of overpowering dread," begins Alison Willmore at IFC.com. "An Ohio man
Before turning to the doc that's premiered at Sundance, let's note that Dave Kehr's DVD column in the New York Times this week is devoted to Roger Corman the director. Yes, he's produced (in one capacity
"Todd Rohal's gleefully dopey comedy The Catechism Cataclysm opens with a bumbling priest (played by Steve Little) telling his congregation a funny story that has no real point and no scriptural
Rather than simply list Saturday night's award-winners in Park City, let's also have a look at what critics have been saying about each of them. Grand Jury Prize: US Documentary Competition. For the
"Azazel Jacobs's profile has grown steadily since he made his striking, black-and-white debut feature, Nobody Needs to Know, in 2003," writes Nick Dawson, introducing his interview for Filmmaker, where
This year, we'll be taking our sweet time gathering coverage of the coverage of films screening at Sundance, but as the entries appear, they'll be indexed here. US DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Noel Murray at the AV Club: "The two leads of the very strange indie romance Bellflower are amateur inventors, who've tricked out their car with a whiskey dispenser and who spend their copious spare