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click to enlarge Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jack Mitchell This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was virtual, and its offerings trimmed down from previous years. It included 73 feature films, 50 short films, four Indie Series, 23 talks and events, and 14 New Frontier multimedia projects. We watched 38 of the 73 films, inclu...

Though often an album of departures, it works to find new ground to walk upon.

Try Harder! Review: Endearing, Alarming Doc on Senior-Year College-Application Hope and Heartbreak The agonies and ecstasies of a high-achieving majority Asian-American senior class during a cutthroat college application season. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 84 MIN Courtesy of Sundance Institute “You get used to feeling mediocre,” says one of the merely very bright students in a school full of what he considers “geniuses.” “Try Harder,”...

In the Earth Review: Treat Yourself to a Shot of COVID-Inspired Wheatley Weirdness In the Earth Review: Treat Yourself to a Shot of COVID-Inspired Wheatley Weirdness Its somehow fitting that a horror helmer whose career kicked off with viral videos has gone and made a pandemic movie that infects the id. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 100 MIN. Courtesy of Sundance Institute Last year, Ben Wheatley released a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca�...