Writer and director Clint Bentley doesn’t make films about the exceptional. He finds the exceptional in the ordinary. Stories about jockeys past their prime, incarcerated men staging plays, and now, with Train Dreams, an Idaho logger whose entire life unfolds […]

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There’s so much uncertainty in the world and strangely, as it always somehow seems to, the Sundance Film Festival reflects that. On a surface level, there’s the fact that no one knows where the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be […]

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Martin McDonagh, the genius behind both theatre and the outstanding Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and In Bruges returns with an Ireland-set “break-up” story centering on two longtime friends. Reteaming with his In Bruges leads Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, he transports […]

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Birns remains stoically oblique until the very end, and he deserves a lot of credit for that. This is a film that is intended to trigger many more questions than it has answers.

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