Film
Jackass Forever is incredibly stupid, totally irresponsible, completely juvenile, and it made me feel alive in my body for the first time in weeks.
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With the eyes of the world on Ukraine right now, two films at Sundance came from that country, or what used to be that country.
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The Pink Cloud is a fascinating watch by sheer virtue of its accidental prescience.
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Mel Brooks called Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club “a little nest of happiness. All our recent wounds are healed there.”
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If this film accomplishes anything, it’s to remind us of how much we lost when Jimi Hendrix died.
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A relaxing family vacation story morphs into a quietly riveting character study.
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With Richard Davis, director Ramin Bahrani found an old-fashioned fraud, a paunchy American grifter worthy of a story by Mark Twain.
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This effective advocacy documentary charts the 21st-century decline of a great American institution (one established in the U.S. Constitution). It’s also a wake-up call alerting us that things didn’t have to happen this way.
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This dispatch reviews three documentaries that are very different from each other, but are all fascinating and engaging. This was an excellent year for documentaries at Sundance. I will review several more before this year’s dispatches are complete.
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These three Sundance films supplied very intense viewing experiences.
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