Sundance 2025: Lurker; Free Leonard Peltier; Oh, Hi
On three Sundance premieres, including a fest stand-out.
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Sundance 2025: Big Swings Pay Off in the Episodic Program
One of our TV critics looks at the entire episodic program from Sundance 2025.
Sundance 2025: Come See Me In The Good Light, Move Ya Body, Deaf President Now!
Three documentaries premiering at the year’s film festival marry the personal with the political.
Hulu’s “Paradise” Blends Murder Mystery with High-Concept Storytelling
A consistently easy watch, only feeling hollow in retrospect. It moves quickly enough that you don’t really notice it’s not nutritionally satisfying. Sometimes that doesn’t matter.
Sundance 2025: Bunnylovr, Atropia, Love, Brooklyn
On three U.S. Dramatic Competition films from this year’s program.
Sundance 2025: Rebuilding, Together, Peter Hujar’s Day
On three of the best films of Sundance 2025.
Sundance 2025: 2000 Meters from Andriivka, Cutting Through Rocks, Khartoum
Three films in the World Cinema Documentary Competition tell stories from countries in the midst of conflict.
Sundance 2025: Brides, Where the Wind Comes From, Two Women
This year’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition features three films all about characters on spiritual, physical, and sexual journeys toward new versions of themselves.
Sundance 2025: Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Lake), Plainclothes
On two U.S. Competition films from Sundance, including one that feels like home.
Sundance 2025: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Thing with Feathers, Rabbit Trap
On three big premieres from Sundance, all about brutal, near-hallucinatory states. It’s tough out there.
Sundance Film Festival 2025: Predators, The Stringer, FOLKTALES
On three excellent documentaries that premiered today at the Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance 2025: Omaha, Bubble & Squeak
Two narrative competition films from Sundance 2025 of very different qualities.
Sundance 2025: Twinless, Ricky, Jimpa
On three films from Sundance, including new works starring Stephan James, Dylan O’Brien, and John Lithgow.
Sundance 2025: The Ugly Stepsister, By Design
On two of the crazier opening night premieres of this year’s Sundance.
Morris Chestnut is Wasted on Inferior “Watson”
There is no point to CBS’s utterly stale procedural “Watson.”
Out of the Ashes: Let the 2025 Oscars Be a Telethon for Wildfire Relief
In the wake of the California wildfires, it’s time for Hollywood to turn its biggest night into a chance to do good.
Ten Shocking Omissions from the 2025 Oscar Nominations
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Margaret Qualley, Danielle Deadwyler, and more make our list of the most egregious Oscar snubs this Oscar morning.
“The Night Agent” Raises the Stakes and Reinvents Itself In Season Two
It feels like the action is more severe, and the stakes in “The Night Agent” have also been raised.
Oscar Nominations Predictions 2025
Our predictions for the major categories at this year’s Academy Awards.
Apple TV+ Misses the Mark With Conspiracy Thriller “Prime Target”
Ultimately, this new attempt at a conspiracy thriller is myopically preoccupied with appearing smarter than it is.
