Critics Campus 2026 participant Jamie Tak speaks to director Lisandro Alonso about audience expectations, the importance of objects and landscapes in his filmmaking, and the influence of Iranian cinema on his work.
Long Long Night (Youm Kyu-Bock, 2026) 3½ out of 5 stars South Korean director Youm Kyu-Bock’s debut feature, Long Long Night, is an adaptation of a 2021 prize-winning children’s book that was later turned into a stage musical. It tells the tale of the last white boulder rhinoceros on Earth, who protects—and journeys across the […]
The Stunt Driver (Michael Dowse, 2026) 2 out of 5 stars Ken Carter, aka “The Mad Canadian,” was a stunt driver who performed many feats of automobile derring-do, much like his American contemporary, the better-known Evel Knievel. In 1976, two years after Knievel attempted a rocket-powered jump across Idaho’s Snake River (not quite making it), […]
Early in her illustrious career, Spanish director Isabel Coixet broke out internationally with “My Life Without Me,” in which Sarah Polley plays a young mother who conceals the fact that she has terminal cancer. Therefore, not wanting to retread covered ground, the prolific Coixet initially was not keen to take on an adaptation of Michela […]
TIFF: It took almost a decade for the "Moon" and "Mute" filmmaker to get his animated adaptation of "Rogue Trooper" off the ground. Sometimes, the filmmaker tells IndieWire, that's just what the vision entails.
Evil Genius (Courteney Cox, 2026) 1 out of 5 stars Courteney Cox’s second feature as director, Evil Genius, is based on the eponymous 2018 documentary (which had the subtitle “The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist”), which itself told a true-life tale. That would be the 2003 attempted robbery of a bank in […]
(L–R) Evianne Casey and Vanessa Martino attend the 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Bucks County, USA” at The Ray Theatre on January 28, 2025, in Park City, UT. (Photo by Robin Marshall/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Lucy Spicer Can we have a civil discussion? That’s what Evi and Vanessa would like to know. […]
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By Jessica Herndon Before the lights dim and the first premieres begin, we’re taking you inside the spaces that will shape the Sundance Film Festival
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Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios today announced the filmmakers supported through the second and third cycles of the Project Advancement and Completion Fund
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Even the most ardent John Wilson fan won’t be able to guess where the director’s debut feature goes
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