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  1. après-screen
    The Vulture Spot at Sundance Film Festival - Day 4
    Vulture’s Complete Sundance 2025 ExperienceAll the highlights from Park City — and how to stream the movies you missed.
    By Anusha Praturu
  2. sundance 2025
    The Wedding Banquet Is Rom-Com Whiplash in the Best SenseThe characters in Andrew Ahn’s remake of an Ang Lee classic can get gay-married, but they’re going to get fake straight-married instead.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  3. mother of the bride
    Joan Chen Runs Away With The Wedding BanquetShe ran away with the Sundance Q&A, too.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  4. sundance 2025
    Moments of Reflection101 stars joined us in our Sundance photo studio. Only six mirrors were harmed in the process.
    Photographs by Sinna Nasseri
  5. sundance 2025
    An Absorbing Sundance Thriller With a Dark HeartAlireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill is a case study for how to make an effective psychological thriller.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  6. sundance 2025
    The Best Film at Sundance Is Just Two People TalkingIra Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, starts off as an elevation of the quotidian but transforms into something more reflective.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  7. double feature
    Queer Men Grapple With Seeing Themselves in Plainclothes and TwinlessTwo films at this year’s Sundance depict romances derailed by acts of surveillance.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  8. sundance 2025
    A Slithery, Singing John Malkovich Is All Opus Has Going for ItIt’s frankly shocking that nobody has asked him to play a pop star until now.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. movie review
    Zodiac Killer Project Brilliantly Deconstructs Our Obsession With True CrimeA work of criticism as well as a work of art, Charlie Shackleton’s sly film is nebulously sinister and dryly hilarious all at once.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. sundance 2025
    One Star-Making Performance Can’t Save Kiss of the Spider WomanEnergetic and riveting, Tonatiuh brings layers of tenderness and complexity. If only the rest of the picture could match his vitality.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  11. father figure
    You’re Not Ready To See Josh O’Connor Play a Sad DadHe takes to fatherhood a bit more naturally than he does a big cowboy hat in Rebuilding.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  12. sundance 2025
    The Thing With Feathers Almost Wastes a Great Benedict Cumberbatch PerformanceThe actor is at his best, most alive and inventive here. But The Thing With Feathers doesn’t know what kind of movie to be.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. sundance 2025
    We Have Good News and Bad News About The Legend of OchiThe good news is the controversy over the new A24 film’s supposedly AI-looking critter is baseless. The bad news? Well…
    By Bilge Ebiri
  14. sundance 2025
    All That’s Left of You Isn’t Looking for Just EmpathyA Palestinian acting dynasty stars in this uneven but artful film about the alienation that survival sometimes requires.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  15. sundance 2025
    A Languorous, 87-Minute Movie Worth WatchingSierra Falconer’s Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) is an anthology film that actually works.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  16. sundance 2025
    Rabbit Trap Needs More Than Technical Razzle DazzleThe Sundance horror movie has a lot to say about repression, but you can’t really call it subtext when it’s literally screeched from minute one.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  17. sundance 2025
    A Dark Truth Runs Beneath the Surface of The Dating GameThe colorful, almost exuberant surfaces of Violet Du Feng’s Sundance documentary mask a grim, dystopian reality.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  18. funny girl
    Let Aisling Franciosi Be FunnyTwinless is a great showcase for Franciosi’s real-deal comedic chops.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  19. movie review
    Cinderella Was Always a Body-Horror StoryNorwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  20. sundance 2025
    There’s Still Money to Be Made at Sundance — Or So Producers HopeDespite fires, strikes, and pandemic hangover, the people hoping to sell films at Sundance are, nonetheless, bullish on indie filmdom.
    By Chris Lee
  21. sundance 2025
    15 Movies We’re Excited to See at Sundance ’25Last year’s lineup brought us I Saw The TV Glow and Between the Temples, and this year’s festival promises a number of oddities and originals.
    By Fran Hoepfner and Bilge Ebiri
  22. movie review
    Presence Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in AgesIt’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  23. sundance 2024
    Two Friends Talk, Gently and Openly, in Will & HarperThe most powerful parts of Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s road trip documentary are also its most basic.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  24. in competition
    So You Think You Can Sundance?The search for the next great host is down to a final three … including Park City.
    By Jason P. Frank
  25. sundance film festival
    Where Should the Sundance Film Festival Go Next?Should Sundance flee Park City for bluer pastures, or stay closer to home?
    By Nate Jones
  26. sundance 2024
    Every Film Sold at Post-Strike Sundance (and for How Much)Focus Features snatched up festival favorite Dìdi (弟弟).
    By Zoe Guy
  27. sundance 2024
    The 15 Best Movies We Saw This Year at SundanceThis year’s slate actually felt like Sundance, like the festival it used to be before it became just another stop on Hollywood’s eternal red carpet.
    By Bilge Ebiri, Rebecca Alter, and Alison Willmore
  28. gallery
    As Seen at SundanceThe talk of the ski town at this year’s film festival.
    By Vulture Editors
    Photographs by Lucas Michael
  29. sundance 2024
    Robert Downey Jr. Told Sundance About Christopher Nolan’s Bathroom Habits“11 a.m. and 6 p.m. sharp. Diuretics are his kryptonite.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  30. sundance 2024
    Love Me Asks Too Many QuestionsKristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in an emo version of Wall-E that is furiously literal-minded.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  31. festival preview
    The Sundance Movies We’ll All Be Talking About Next YearA preview of what’s coming to Park City in January, from Kristen Stewart falling in love with a bodybuilder to Jesse Eisenberg starring as Bigfoot.
    By Chris Lee
  32. sundance 2024
    Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Have a Romance at SundanceAll the films heading to Park City, Utah, in January.
    By Zoe Guy
  33. a long talk
    From Blowing Up Toasters to a Seven-Figure A24 DealMeet Danny and Michael Philippou, a.k.a. RackaRacka, the excitable 30-year-old twin directors behind this summer’s biggest horror movie.
    By Chris Lee
  34. sundance 2023
    A Complete List of Films Sold at Sundance 2023 (and Their Price Tags)MUBI takes on the sexy, gay “meta-comedy” Rotting in the Sun from Sebastián Silva.
    By Zoe Guy
  35. sundance 2023
    Sundance’s Year of Existential Crisis Yielded Back-to-Back MegadealsInsiders call this year’s Sundance a return to form, with several all-night bidding wars and multiple eight-figure deals.
    By Chris Lee
  36. the vulture spot
    Jonathan Majors Says Prepping for SNL Was Almost As Difficult As Bodybuilding“Both were extremely physical, long hours, and I had to eat a lot.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  37. the vulture spot
    Rotting in the Sun Features 30 to 600 PenisesSebastián Silva and Jordan Firstman report back from a gay nude beach.
    By Jason P. Frank
  38. the vulture spot
    Fremont Is a Response to a ‘Fallacy’ About Women in AfghanistanAccording to director Babak Jalali.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  39. the vulture spot
    Ira Sachs Wanted to Make Passages for … Love“What they do in front of the camera is quite aesthetically and erotically and emotionally engaging,” the director said.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  40. the vulture spot
    Emma Tremblay Probably Saw a UFO On the Set of Aliens Abducted My ParentsExtraterrestrial life imitates art.
    By Zoe Guy
  41. the vulture spot
    To Live and Die and Live Star Skye P. Marshall Had to Scale Rocks in HeelsAnd slept in a truck that night.
    By Zoe Guy
  42. sundance 2023
    Sundance, Day Four: Joey Soloway’s House Party and a Missing Dakota JohnsonSaying good-bye to Sundance with rubber ducks, queer horror filmmakers, and a bottle of tequila.
    By Rebecca Alter
  43. the vulture spot
    Greta Lee Couldn’t Touch Teo Yoo While Filming Past LivesCeline Song knows how to build the antici … pation.
    By Jason P. Frank
  44. celebrity cookbook
    Jack McBrayer Tried to Eat Alexander Skarsgård’s Kidney While on VacationAnd, no, it’s not the plot of White Lotus season three.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
  45. the vulture spot
    Gael García Bernal Learned the Pain of Pro Wrestling While Filming CassandroThe ropes were a particular bee in his luchador mask.
    By Jason P. Frank
  46. the vulture spot
    The Persian Version’s Layla Mohammadi Has Her Elevator Pitch Down“Everything they thought they knew about each other is upended,” says director Maryam Keshavarz.
    By Bethy Squires
  47. the vulture spot
    The Cast and Crew of Bad Behaviour Get Interviewed by AILike Frost/Nixon, but way dumber.
    By Bethy Squires
  48. the vulture spot
    Young. Wild. Free. Couldn’t Be Young, Wild, or Free Until After COVID DelaysThe film began production in March 2020.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  49. the vulture spot
    Randall Park Wants You to Be Self-reflective With Shortcomings“It is a movie about personal growth and change,” says the first-time director of his Sundance feature.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  50. park city confidential
    Sundance, Day 3: Zooming With Judy Blume and Mothering With Mia GothInfinity Pool is creepy, the Judy Blume documentary is fun, and the Meredith Marks party has gossip.
    By Rebecca Alter
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