Linda (Rose Byrne) is having a hard time. Wait, that’s not quite selling it enough. “A hard time” suggests this beleaguered, bewildered mother needs to overcome an obstacle or two. What Linda is dealing with is an onslaught of soul-crushing strife. Her daughter (Delany Quinn) is overly anxious, extremely high-strung, …
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He was a Hollywood golden boy and the Sundance kid, the missing link between The Twilight Zone (check out the towheaded 25-year-old playing the Prince of Darkness) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. An actor-turned-director who helped everybody from Scarlett Johansson to Brad Pitt become household names. A film festival founder …
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You haven’t heard of Oliver. Not yet, at least. You’d recognize the type, though. He’s a twentysomething British pop singer, blessed with a brooding handsomeness and a soulful, sad-boi sound — a little bit of the Weeknd, a whole lotta Zayn — that’s extremely Spotify-friendly. He’s famous enough to have …
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How much do you love your significant other? Let’s rephrase the question: Do you love them so much that you can’t bear to be apart from them? Like, literally apart from them? Midway through Together, the debut feature from Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks, a character trots out Plato’s theory of …
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There’s a period in every relationship you might call the “supernova” phase — when everything is fresh and new, the attraction and lust burn blindingly bright, and you can’t get enough of each other. The couple at the center of Oh, Hi! are a textbook example of this Paleolithic period …
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Something’s wrong with Agnes. It’s hard to pinpoint, at first. She’s got a lot going on. Agnes is smart, wicked funny, and, given she’s just been promoted to a full-time English professor at the college where she works, what you might traditionally characterize as successful. It’s the same northeastern liberal …
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E va Victor is carrying a ludicrously capacious bag. When I can’t help but reference the now memed-to-death Succession bit, Victor juts out their jaw and says, in a pitch-perfect Tom Wambsgans impression, “Shiv.” I’m relieved, if not surprised, that Victor got the reference. The actor-writer-director, who is 31 and …
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In 1972, ABC aired an exposé on the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, which had been accused of abusing and neglecting its intellectually challenged wards. A young, hungry investigative reporter named Geraldo Rivera took a camera crew inside the institution, and gave the country a firsthand look …
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For more than four decades, Park City, Utah, hosted the Sundance Film Festival. But now it’s moving to Boulder. After years of consideration, the Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees announced Thursday that the Colorado town will host its first Sundance in January 2027. (Next year’s Sundance will take place in …
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Sundance 2025 will be remembered as what’s probably the penultimate year that film festival calls Park City home, as well as the edition that gave us a body-horror rom-com (IRL couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco’s gloriously disgusting Together), an introduction to a major new triple-threat talent (Eva Victor’s Sorry, …
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