Best of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

Best of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival has officially come to an end. I saw 30 movies at this year’s festival, one less than last year. Overall, this year’s festival was really good. There were a number of movies that I really liked and only two or three that I truly did not like, mostly because they were boring. However, missing from this year’s festival was a movie that was a truly great film. In previous years,…

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Sundance 2022: Dos Estaciones

Sundance 2022: Dos Estaciones

    I’ve been attending the Sundance Film Festival for over ten years now and one of the reasons that keep me coming back to this film festival is watching the movies of emerging filmmakers and new filmmakers. I love seeing filmmakers who have been on my radar come into their own in terms of style and voice and I love seeing a new vision from a director who had never made a feature film…

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Sundance 2022: Emily the Criminal

Sundance 2022: Emily the Criminal

    Aubrey Plaza gives the best performances of her career in Emily the Criminal, a slick, tough L.A. crime movie with shades of a Michael Mann movie. Plaza plays Emily, a woman living in Los Angeles strapped with a mountain of student debt. Unable to break into the job market because of her slight criminal record, Emily tries to make money working for a catering company where she is miserable. In a feat of…

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Sundance 2022: Living

Sundance 2022: Living

    Akira Kurosawa’s effect on cinema is impossible to measure. Somebody could say that he was the greatest director to ever get behind the camera and it would be hard to argue with them. From his filmmaking technique to his influence on numerous genres, to the countless remakes of his films, Kurosawa’s influence looms strong even in today’s cinema and doesn’t look like it is going to stop anytime soon. The latest Kurosawa influence…

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Sundance 2022: Fresh

Sundance 2022: Fresh

    Modern dating seems rough. With the rise in dating apps over the last few years, dating has been changed forever. With the simple swipe of a finger, you could be “matched” with a random person and choose to meet them for a date. But who really is this person? All you’ve gathered is a brief description, a picture, and maybe a small conversation about the date, but you’ve never spoken or seen this…

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Sundance 2022: The Princess

Sundance 2022: The Princess

    Diana, Princess of Wales was not a major figure in my life. She passed away when I was only nine years old and all I knew about her was that she was a princess and that there was a Beanie Babie devoted to her. Watching the 2021 film Spencer gave me a little more context to her life, though that movie plays with the narrative and truth in different ways that it’s tough…

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Sundance 2022: Emergency

Sundance 2022: Emergency

    The Sundance Film Festival and IMDb have classified Carey Williams’ Emergency as a comedy, which is a bit misleading. There are funny moments in the film, particularly in the first act, but this is an intense, powerful look at the Black experience and their relationships with police and white fear. The genre might be wrong, but Emergency is a great movie. Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins), a straight-A genius on his way to Princeton…

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Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World

Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World

    Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg makes his directorial debut with When You Finish Saving the World, a lackluster mother-son dramedy that features two excellent lead performances. Julianne Moore stars as Evelyn, a woman who runs a shelter for domestic abuse survivors. Her son Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard) is an angsty high schooler who spends most of his days on Hi-Hat, a TikTok-like streaming service where Ziggy sings and plays guitar to his 20,000 followers. Evelyn…

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2022 Sundance Film Festival: Movies To Be Excited About

2022 Sundance Film Festival: Movies To Be Excited About

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week and, as I’ve written many times, this festival is very near and dear to my heart. I started attending the Sundance Film Festival back in 2011 as a volunteer for the festival and over the last couple of years have had the honor of covering the festival as a member of the press. This is a film festival I truly love. I love the focus on…

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Review: Scream

Review: Scream

    Scream, the fifth installment in the Scream franchise that probably should have been titled something like 5cream or simply Scream 5 or Scream V, is a testament to Scream as a franchise. Since the first film debuted in 1996, the Scream franchise has stuck to its roots in terms of what it is: murderous whodunits filled with meta-humor about the state of horror films. Whenever a new Scream film comes out, regardless of…

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