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Tribeca
Joel Potrykus and his muse Joshua Burge revive the characters they played in "Buzzard" for the director's bleakest movie yet.
With “The People’s Joker," Vera Drew is doing the exact thing that studios have been asking superhero fans to do for years: She’s telling her life story through the medium of Batman characters.
SXSW
SXSW: Alex Garland's skillful but joyless vision of our near future marks a return to form for the "Men" director.
SXSW
SXSW: Bernardo Britto’s time loop movie seamlessly blends sci-fi tropes with modern reality, which sometimes keeps its high concept premise from reaching its full potential.
SXSW
SXSW: The artist formerly known as Ken returns as a washed-up stuntman who still burns for Emily Blunt, the ex who's directing his latest action movie.
SXSW
Patel's grimy, ultraviolent mixtape of action influences has the chaotic unpredictability of Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy" and the neon gunplay of the “John Wick” franchise.
SXSW
SXSW: The "Star Wars" star leads this unique neo noir thriller, which was certainly one of the most anticipated films at SXSW this year.
SXSW
SXSW: A compelling breakout by Cameron Dawson Gray anchors what is otherwise very much a first film from director Benjamin Finkel.
Sundance
Dutch comedy duo Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil take sneering pleasure in giving the middle finger to God in hyper-violent, absurdist fashion.
Sundance
By reducing the leak of classified information that imprisoned Reality Winner to a simple act of principled heroism, Fogel glosses over the most interesting nuances of her story.
Sundance
The "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" director returned to Sundance with another boundary-pushing project, but the story seldom lives up to its high concept.
Film Review
The late "Euphoria" actor stars in a bleak thriller set in a convenience store in the moments after someone wins a massive jackpot.
