Brother and sister Isla (Gayle Rankin) and Sandy (Grant O’Rourke) have been living alone on the isolated, windswept Auk Isle off the coast of Scotland for 30 years. Entirely self-reliant, they spend their days hunting and gathering, swapping feverish tales of mainland threats, and preparing for phantom invaders. This translates
Sundance ‘26: ‘UNDERTONE’ is Actually the Scariest Movie in Years
Anytime a new horror movie comes out, horror fans and critics trip over themselves to call it the scariest movie since Hereditary, which was the scariest movie since Paranormal Activity, which was the scariest since The Blair Witch Project, which was the scariest since The Exorcist, and so on in
Sundance ‘26: ‘THE MUSICAL’ Is Elite Crash Out Cringe Comedy
Doug Leibowitz (Will Brill) is an ostensibly mild-mannered but deeply disillusioned middle school theater teacher and once maybe promising playwright. When the Cedarhurst Middle School teacher is forced to confront the reality that his ex-girlfriend Abigail (Gillian Jacobs), who he thought he was still “on a break” with, has started
Sundance ’26: ‘THE GALLERIST’ is A Frenetic Art World Satire Hoisted on Its Own Pitard
Cathy Yan’s absurdist satirical comedy The Gallerist may attempt to be an on-the-nose skewering of the art world, but even committed performances from its all-star cast can’t make up for weak jokes and thin satire. Natalie Portman stars as Polina Poliski, an ambitious and unscrupulous gallerist who, in the midst
Sundance ‘26: ‘ROCK SPRINGS’ Excises The Ghosts of A Not-So Distant Shame
During Ghost Month, the boundary between the living and the dead is supposed to thin. The gates of hell open up. The ghosts get hungrier. Or so says Gracie’s Nai Nai (Fiona Fu), who delivers this unsettling tidbit with the weary authority of someone who’s seen some things. For Gracie’s