Tom Gormican's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is victory lap for Cage, who spent such an inordinate amount time on the silver screen over the years and never overstayed his welcome with audiences. And his role in this film is exactly the kind of performance that’s made him so shelf stable in the first place.

Florian Zeller's The Father

Mental deterioration and aging and losing one’s mind is among life’s most great and mysterious tragedies, and, of course, there’s no greater testament to Florian Zeller’s filmmaking brilliance to make such a mystery so legible and penetrating for the rest of us in his feature debut, The Father.

Mimi Cave's Fresh

Mimi Cave's Fresh succeeds mostly due to its confident visual language (and dance numbers), and a very snappy script from Lauryn Kahn. Altogether, it is undeniably delectable.

Derek Cianfrance's Roofman

Derek Cianfrance’s crowd-pleasing Roofman was compelling and charming and ultimately made to be liked. If you’re the kind of person who can lose yourself in a film without overthinking it, you’ll have fun with it.

Mary Bronstein's If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Rose Byrne's role in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is one of the tightest ropes an actor has had to walk in the past decade, and she handles it with all the grace and empathy and raw tenacity for which she’s become known.

Lee Isaac Chung's Minari

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is a beautiful film that lands with all the artistry of a delicate watercolor painting. What makes this familiar tale so particularly special is the exceptional character drawings from the director and masterful performances from his cast, helmed by Steven Yeun and Han Ye-ri.

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a razor-sharp satire constructed around a culturally-pervasive male archetype: the fragile man who defines himself through his work.

Peter Farrelly's Ricky Stanicky

Peter Farrelly's Ricky Stanicky doesn’t really accomplish anything profound, but that’s not what it’s for. Despite a wildly thin premise and comically straightforward character drawings, Ricky Stanicky is quite funny.

Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin

Writer-director Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin is not an easy watch, but it’s a brilliant and visceral piece that you’ll probably never want to see again.

The Sundance Film Festival Edition.

We went to the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and we have so much to share, including eleven movies to look out for over the next year.

James Sweeney's Twinless

Writer-director-actor James Sweeney’s Twinless is a beautifully written reflection on companionship, envy, loss, and forgiveness.

Jim Cummings' Thunder Road

Writer-director Jim Cummings so deftly balances the emotional with the downright silly, a thesis you’ll find immediately proven right even if you merely humor me and only watch the opening scene.

Michael Shanks' Together

Alison Brie and Dave Franco both turn in wry performances to bring to life writer-director Michael Shank’s script, an admirably simple-but-twisted parable about love and complacency and codependency.

Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme

The tale of Marty Mauser is at once a series of hysterical misadventures and a deeply affecting character study about greed, fame, dreams, and ambition.

Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love

Jennifer Lawrence puts up a career-best performance as Grace — a new mother whose relationship, sex life, and career as a writer are all crumbling underneath the weight of parenthood and a case of postpartum depression.

Daniels' Swiss Army Man

Ari Aster's Eddington

David Moreau's MadS

Evan Morgan's The Kid Detective

Cameron & Colin Cairnes' Late Night with the Devil

Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia

Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven

Alister Grierson's Bloody Hell

Daniel Scheinert's The Death of Dick Long

Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl