Amanda Kernell's second feature, Charter, toys with the reliability of the protagonist's perspective, who is herself uncertain, in this psychologically complex …
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Sundance ’20 review: Jumbo and Objectum Sexuality
Noémie Merlant shines as a woman in love with a fairground ride, but Jumbo lacks psychological insight into the real phenomenon of Objectum Sexuality. Jumbo is …
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Sundance ’20 Review: Summer White (Blanco de Verano)
Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson's Summer White is a haunting story about a toxic mother-son relationship that gets interrupted by her new beau. Summer White is screening …
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Sundance ’20 review: Surge
The sound design in Surge submerges us in a fractured mind, but that doesn't save the film from feeling like Ben Whishaw's discarded Joker audition tape. Surge …
Sundance ’20 Review: Cuties (Mignonnes)
Maïmouna Doucouré's Cuties is an often compelling crowd-pleaser, if somewhat under-baked, which looks at how girls end up becoming over-sexualized at a young …
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