One of the more intriguing narrative films screening in competition at Sundance, Maggie Betts' Novitiate follows the experiences of Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), a te
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Quick, name an Archie Andrews personality trait. Yes, he's red-headed and red-blooded, a horndog naïf with hashtag sideburns who is forever battled over by beauties
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A Dog's Purpose, based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, combines the philosophical belief that living beings are reborn into a different physical body after biologi
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The fact that the Oscar nominations for the previous year are announced halfway through Sundance serves as a nice reality check for those prone to deeming anything a
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Gold's value lies chiefly in the hearts and minds of those who seek it. The noble metal has driven humans to perpetrate ignoble acts on their quests to unearth it si
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Gentle, humane, embracing a full range from slapstick to tragedy, Marcel Pagnol's trilogy about the people of the Marseille waterfront has bewitched audiences for de
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Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman is a tense, visceral drama of wounded masculinity ? and therein lies part of its problem. Farhadi, whose About Ell
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The Big SickDirected by?Michael ShowalterOne of the early breakout titles of this year's Sundance Film Festival ??reportedly?it already sold to Amazon for $12 millio
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My Happy FamilyDirected by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon GrossThere are few things more terrifying than being asked How have you lived your life?? while in the midst
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In the opening of director Ben Lear's heartbreaking and illuminating documentary They Call Us Monsters, screenwriter Gabriel Cowan sits at a table with four boys in
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I'm still trying to decide if Sundance's decision to kick off its 2017 festival with An Inconvenient Sequel, Al Gore's follow-up to his influential (and terrifying)
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When news broke that Turner Classic Movies would be airing Elia Kazan's 1957 film A Face in the Crowd following the inauguration, the connection was immediately mad
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