Movie Reviews

  It feels like every year at Sundance I see a movie that would have been better off being a short film rather than a feature. A film that has an interesting concept and a great beginning only for it to run out of steam rather quickly, leaving us with what feels like an unfinished film. At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that film was Sophie Brooks’s Oh, Hi, a romantic comedy that has a…

  Amir ‘Questlove’ Thompson is quickly cementing himself as one of the best music documentarians we have working today. Following his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Thompson brings us another energetic and insightful music-focused documentary with SLY LIVES! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) which looks at the life and music of Sly Stone. Unlike another Sundance musical biopic, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, where I went in basically blind to knowing any music about the…

  André Is an Idiot opens with our subject André telling a story about how he once had an incident in which he was masturbating and he ended up with splinters in his privates. I’m not going to get into detail about the story, but he closes it by saying that this would have been the stupidest moment in his life but then he skipped getting a colonoscopy and was then diagnosed with stage four…

  Captain America: Brave New World, the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a conflicting watch because depending on how you view the film, you might love it or hate it. You will enjoy the film if you watch it from the view of a basic MCU sequel. But the film has an overly political message that if you look into it deeper than just surface-level it bogs down the viewing experience. Since…

  I had never heard of Jeff Buckley until I saw that there was a documentary about him at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, looks at a young musical artist who quickly rose to fame, only for it to come to a crashing halt after a tragic accident. Normally, I wouldn’t go into a documentary like this completely blind, but I am glad I took a chance on…

  Albert Birney returns to the Sundance Film Festival following his 2021 film Strawberry Mansion with OBEX, a lo-fi, science fiction film. Set in 1987, OBEX follows Conor (Birney), a recluse who only lives with his dog Sandy. Conor spends his days in front of a screen. He has a trio of TVs in his living room, a TV and computer monitor in his bedroom, and he even watches TV while in the bathtub. To…

  Dave Franco and Alison Brie star in Michael Shanks’s deliriously fun horror film Together, one of the best movies I have seen at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Franco and Brie play Tim and Millie, a couple who have recently moved from out of the big city into a house surrounded by endless woods. Tim and Millie’s relationship is on the rocks. Millie’s job as a teacher has taken them out of the city….

  I remember seeing Dylan O’Brien for the first time in the 2013 Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson-led comedy The Internship. Shortly after this film, O’Brien’s career blew up as he was the star of the TV show Teen Wolf and would be the lead in the film adaptations of The Maze Runner. With his growing popularity, choices in big-named projects, and classic good looks, O’Brien was on his way to becoming a full-blown movie…

  Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa is an insightful and powerful drama about modern queerness, family, and parenting. Olivia Colman stars as Hannah, a filmmaker working on her next film project, which centers around her relationship with her father, which she thinks is drama-free. She makes a trip to Amsterdam with her husband (Daniel Henshaw) and non-binary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to visit her gay father (John Lithgow), or Jimpa as Frances calls him. When Frances tells…

  Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover is an uproarious horror comedy. The film follows a grave digger (Glowicki) who is desperate to find a lover but can’t because of her unpleasant smell. Following a funeral, she meets the man of her dreams, who loves how she looks and smells, only for him to perish in a tragic accident. In a state of desperation and sadness, she goes to extreme lengths to try to bring him back….