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  1. 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
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    Kieran Culkin Is a Mercurial Pleasure in A Real PainJesse Eisenberg’s charming Oscar winner moves gently and smoothly but hints at an all-consuming darkness underneath.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Outrun Shows Us Saoirse Ronan at Her Most TranscendentDirector Nora Fingscheidt’s Sundance drama stars Ronan as a recovering alcoholic who’s back in her childhood home in the Orkney Islands.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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
  5. movie review
    In Search of a More Welcoming RealityJane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow is an enveloping, confounding film about isolation, gender transition, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Girls Will Be Girls Sneaks Up on YouShuchi Talati’s debut feature, one of the best films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is now in theaters.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Two Iconic Oddballs Make the Perfect Pair in Between the TemplesNathan Silver’s clever comedy stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, two iconic weirdos from different eras of American cinema.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Thelma Gives 94-Year-Old June Squibb the Role of a LifetimeJosh Margolin’s Sundance comedy, about an elderly woman on a quest to find the crooks who scammed her, never feels lazy, cheap, or cruel.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. i saw the tv glow
    Jane Schoenbrun Saw the TV GlowThe We’re All Going to the World’s Fair director has a haunting new film about the thin line between fiction and reality.
    By Esther Zuckerman
  10. movie review
    A Portrait of Frida Kahlo Like We’ve Never Seen Her BeforeCarla Gutierrez’s documentary uses the artist’s own words (and pictures) to tell her story.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Every Film Sold at Post-Strike Sundance (and for How Much)Focus Features snatched up festival favorite Dìdi (弟弟).
    By Zoe Guy
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    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
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    The Protesters Pushing Sundance to Grow a Spine for PalestineThere has been mostly silence on the ground about human-rights crises that directly affect the artistic communities at the core of Sundance.
    By Rebecca Alter
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    The Chilling War Game Shows Us What America’s Next Insurrection Might Look LikeAnyone who witnessed the real January 6 will find their stomach in knots, though admittedly some of us have had our stomachs in knots for years now.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  15. the vulture spot
    Lisa Barlow Is Aiming High With Real HousewivesVicky Posh, you might have an email from Andy Cohen incoming.
    By Jason P. Frank
  16. the vulture spot
    Greta Gerwig Is an Influencer, ActuallyLady Bird impacted the way Oscar nominee Sean Wang approached his new film, Dìdi (弟弟).
    By Jennifer Zhan
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    Pauly Shore Is Ready for His Oscar“It’s not only Richard Simmons’s comeback story, it’s my comeback too.”
    By Bethy Squires
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    Winner Finds Humor in a Whisteblower ThrillerSusanna Fogel on making election interference kinda funny.
    By Zoe Guy
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    (Nearly) Live From the Vulture Spot at the Sundance Film FestivalEverything going on in our Park City interview space.
    By Anusha Praturu
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    Hold Up, How Have We Gone Without a Luther Vandross Doc?“We’re filling in parts we didn’t know,” director Dawn Porter said.
    By Zoe Guy
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    The American Society of Magical Negroes Cast Knows People Are TalkingKobi Libii, Justice Smith, and David Alan Grier are well aware that Twitter already has opinions.
    By Jason P. Frank
  22. the vulture spot
    Perry Farrell Sees Lollapalooza As a LollipopPlus, how his band Jane’s Addiction ended up on the Twilight soundtrack.
    By Justin Curto
  23. the vulture spot
    John Early Identifies As a ‘Deeply Stressed Person’That’s perfect for his role in Stress Positions.
    By Zoe Guy
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    Love Lies Bleeding Needs More Than Violence and GrandeurRose Glass’s new thriller, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian, is passionate and bold, but can rely too much on stylized glimpses of gore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Jesse Eisenberg Made the Kind of Holocaust Film He Wanted to SeePlus, he explains why he and Kieran Culkin butted heads over how much coverage to shoot.
    By Tom Smyth
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    Normani Pivots to ’80s Rap in Freaky Tales“I feel like I was able to get outside of what I would traditionally sound like.”
    By Tom Smyth
  27. the vulture spot
    Simone Ashley Duets With Cool Cat Zayn Malik in 10 Lives“I pested Chris at the beginning of this, like, I can sing, I can sing,” the Bridgerton star said of how the song came about.
    By Tom Smyth
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    The ’90s Nickelodeon Easter Egg Hidden in I Saw the TV GlowAdventures of Pete & Pete fans, don’t blink or you might miss it.
    By Alejandra Gularte
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    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
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    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. the vulture spot
    Julia Fox’s New Home Came With A Free GhostJust like the one in her new movie, Steven Soderbergh’s supernatural thriller Presence.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  32. the vulture spot
    The Real-Life Chaotic Dinners That Influenced Between the TemplesIn the Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane comedy about an unconventional bat mitzvah, no setting is safe from potential drama.
    By Jennifer Zhan
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    The Moving Ibelin Captures a Life Only Seemingly Half-LivedBenjamin Ree’s powerful new Sundance documentary gently uncovers a dying young man’s online life, full of love, connection, and humor.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    21 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Sundance Film FestivalThe horror movies we’re watching at midnight, a Kristen Stewart double feature, and the Lucy Liu and Julia Fox team-up of our dreams.
    By Bilge Ebiri and Rebecca Alter
  35. 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
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    Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Have a Romance at SundanceAll the films heading to Park City, Utah, in January.
    By Zoe Guy