Out of all the movies I saw at Sundance this year, I felt the most let down by ‘The Lifeguard’. With its ensemble cast and talented director, I thought it would be a heartfelt story. Instead, it’s a lukewarm rehash of dramas past.
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If someone had told me that director Michael Winterbottom would make the dullest movie Sundance had to offer this year, I would’ve laughed it off. Unfortunately, after seeing ‘The Look of Love’, I have to apologize to that person.
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A good documentary should take a subject (usually an obscure or relatively unknown one) and make it engaging for a mainstream audience. ‘Manhunt’ takes a popular and exciting subject – the real-life hunt for Osama bin Laden – and makes it as exciting as a history textbook.
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The moment it was announced that ‘Lovelace’ would play at Sundance, controversy mounted. Porn was everywhere at Sundance this year, but for some reason, the story of Linda Lovelace seemed to be the movie that took most of the antagonistic flak from outsiders. Like me, they most likely didn’t know the whole story.
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‘Virtually Heroes’ is like a low-budget, live-action version of ‘Wreck-it Ralph’, about two videogame characters who become self-aware of the endless loop they’re living in. Too bad that the movie runs out of laughs twenty minutes in.
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The Hess sense of humor has always eluded me. I still can’t understand what people see in ‘Napoleon Dynamite‘ or ‘Nacho Libre’. ‘Austenland’, however, is the Hesses most commercial film. It’s also their best, although that’s not saying much.
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Rick Rowley’s ‘Dity Wars’ was the best documentary I saw at Sundance this year. I wish that I would’ve seen more, but this one is an on-point condemnation of the abuse of military powers. The movie follows investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill as he uncovers startling information about America’s covert wars.
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A lesbian housewife is conked in the head by a softball. She’s never the same.
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I didn’t have much luck with documentaries at Sundance this year. Usually, I see a handful of great docs at the festival, but the ones I saw this year were less than stellar. That includes ‘Who is Dayani Cristal?’.
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Besides ‘Escape from Tomorrow‘, the other hot ticket at Sundance this year was a little movie in the U.S. Dramatic Competition called ‘Fruitvale’. It’s the cinematic equivalent of getting punched in the gut. I defy you not to shed a tear or two while watching it.
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