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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Estefanía Contreras | Miguel Drake-McLaughlin | Silvia Del Carmen Castaños
Chris says: “Best friends Silva and Estefania (nicknamed ‘Beba’) are two teenagers in Laredo, Texas. They engage in typical activities for their age: hanging out at the convenience store parking lot, sneaking past the gates of vacant or abandoned homes, sitting
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Glorimar Marrero Sanchez
Starring: Georgina Borri | Magali Carrasquillo | Maximiliano Rivas | Modesto Lacen | sel Rodriguez
Diane says: “This is my 10th film ‘at’ Sundance. “Noelia is a native of Vieques, an island of Puerto Rico that the US Navy used as a bombing test site for decades–and left the trash behind. In early midlife, Noelia,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Charlotte Regan
Starring: Alin Uzun | Ambreen Razia | Cary Crankson | Carys Bowkett | Harris Dickinson | Lola Campbell
Diane says: “This is my 8th film ‘at’ Sundance. Here we leave formalism and get back to films that suddenly go animated! SCRAPPER is a cousin to AFTERSUN, as a very young father and his winsome daughter bond. Twelve-year-old Georgie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: A.V. Rockwell
Starring: Aaron Kingsley Adetola | Aven Courtney | Josiah Cross | Teyana Taylor | William Catlet
Diane says: “This is my 7th film ‘at’ Sundance. “First-timer A.V. Rockwell wrote and directed this movie to honor Black mothers. “Inez, newly released from Rikers, heads back to Harlem to get her old life back and reclaim her little
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Maryam Keshavarz
Starring: ayla Mohammadi | Bella Warda | Bijan Daneshmand | Kamand Shafieisabet | Niousha Noor
Diane says: “This is my 6th film ‘at’ Sundance. “A movie director writes a screenplay of her mother’s life, as she and her mother revisit their past conflicts. You’d need an awful lot of Tilda Swintons for this one, as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Zonana
Starring: Carlos Gerardo García | Esteban Caicedo | Fernando Cuautle | Isabel Yudice | Santiago Sandoval
Diane says: “This is my 5th film ‘at’ Sundance. “David Zonana’s sophomore feature as writer/director shows a lot of talent. He said in his intro that he’s been able to find his style in this second film. “Luís, an Indigenous
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Emma Seligman
Starring: Ayo Edebiri | Dagmara Dominczyk | Kaia Gerber | Nicholas Galitzine | Rachel Sennott
Michael says: “After the razor sharp humor and directorial hand Seligman displayed in her debut feature, SHIVA BABY, coupled with the comic luminescence of lead actor Rachel Sennott, I was very eager to see what they would come up with
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Goran Stolevski
Starring: Elias Anton | Grace Graznak | Hattie Hook | Thom Green | Toby Derrick
Michael says: “I was very curious to see this film as the director, Goran Stolevski’s previous film, YOU WON’T BE ALONE a dark period, folk-horror piece about a brutal with who learns what it means to be human, was so wildly
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pete Ohs
Starring: Andy Faulkner | Ashley Denise Robinson | Callie Hernandez | Will Madden
Jeff says: “JETHICA’s a terrific and clever mumblecore ghost story. It’s tone is amiable, with no gore and only one jump scare. Although it’s budget is tight, no expense is spared on cinematography, taking full advantage of New Mexico’s expansive vistas.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic
Starring: Cliff Curtis | Danica Curcic | Gracija Filipovic | Jonas Smulders | Leon Lucev
Michael says: “A coming-of-age story simmering with sexual tension on an island in the Adriatic sea is the backdrop for this feature-length directorial debut by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic. The film opens with some great footage of teenaged Julia spear-fishing with
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