Captains of Za'atari

2021

★★★½ Watched

I liked how this demonstrated the high stakes in every potential misstep. Short and striking.

A Love Song

2022

★★★★ 2

A lovely, restorative and unfussy film about valuing the time spent with others. It's an ideal way to kick off Sundance (properly, since After Yang wasn't a premiere) as it's got that trademark tenderness and quirkiness that give little-films-that-could their charm. I debated my rating but it's boosted by the power of its ending, sentiment be damned.

A good song can fuel you for a few more miles.

'Why be mean when you can be nice?'

Marvelous and the Black Hole

2021

★★★ 1

It was alright.

Rye Lane

2023

★★★★ Liked Watched

Very very short and very very sweet

El Planeta

2021

★★★½ Watched

Every little Moviemaker screen wipe made me smile. I liked it!

Censor

2021

★★½ Watched

Suffers from a problem I have with a lot of indie British films (especially period, but especially horror), in a word: unconvincing.

So I am hard to please with an indie period British horror film but I still feel it was oversold. Some bits saved it from total mediocrity.

We're All Going to the World's Fair

2021

★★★½ Watched

I meant to watch this during Sundance and I'm only now catching up with my screener. I'll count it in my lineup, though probably won't extend that to other films I may catch later. Definitely an odd one. Lots left to be desired, lots to ire. I watched most of it last night then had a weird dream about it so it's lived in my head in a very strange way I still haven't digested.

Life in a Day 2020

2021

★★★★½ Liked Watched

I'm a huge fan of the project and I thought this did justice to the first one. Was a pleasure chatting to Kevin Macdonald about it the other day. My fav of Sundance.

Could've used more mask discipline and less airtime to MAGA people but it's a film that takes every point of view.

On the Count of Three

2021

★★★★ Liked 1

This wasn't super on my radar until the last minute but I'm glad I did because it might be my favourite (fiction) film of the festival so far. Christopher Abbott was hilarious.

7 films in one day! That's a first for me.

Mutt

2023

★★★ Watched

Well shot and acted, but major script issues hold it way back.

Utama

2022

★★★★ Watched

Literally gasped in awe at the opening shot

Land

2021

★★★ 2

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.