The Mysterious Sly Stone Is Somewhat Unpacked In Questlove’s Watchable But Familiar Music Doc [Sundance]

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The Mysterious Sly Stone Is Somewhat Unpacked In Questlove’s Watchable But Familiar Music Doc [Sundance]

If auteur Terrence Malick had a musical equivalent—a genius recluse who disappeared off the face of the planet—in the world of funk and soul, that would easily be Sly Stone from funk R&B and soul trailblazers Sly And The Family Stone. But whereas Malick reemerged…

Leighton Meester’s Quirky Small-Town Procedural Is Charming but Slow To Take Off

If there's one subgenre of the police procedural I'm really enjoying these days, it's the lighthearted or funny ones that mix the drama of a murder investigation with the quirkiness of the leading and supporting cast. The latest installment in…

‘Bubble & Squeak’ Review: A Movie Cannot Survive on Cabbage Jokes Alone

Every year at the Sundance Film Festival, filmmakers bring their off-the-beaten-path comedies that don’t feel like the conventional funny titles that we’re used to. This has led to plenty of modern comedy classics like Clerks, Four Weddings and a Funeral,…

‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Dev Patel Is Stuck in a Folk Horror Fairytale in This Flawed Directorial Debut

Deep into Rabbit Trap, the directorial debut of Bryn Chainey, a character mentions that “with your eyes you enter the world. With your ears, the world enters you.” While sound has always been essential to horror, it has rarely felt…

Kahlil Joseph’s Documentary Is A Brilliant Wonder To Behold [Sundance]

PARK CITY – There is a world in which “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions,” the expansive, brilliant, multilayered, and entrancing documentary from Kahlil Joseph, was never seen. Due to a dispute over a supposed “secret cut” right before the highly anticipated…

Heart Eyes Review | Flickreel

Slasher movies have capitalized on Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, the Fourth of July, and even St Patrick’s Day. One set on Valentine’s Day isn’t anything new, but Heart Eyes feels like the first that’s 50% rom-com and 50% slasher flick.…

‘Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore’ Review: An Intimate Documentary About an Extraordinary Life and Career

Being the first in anything might be a momentous achievement, but it also comes with the baggage and burden of representing a whole group of people. For Marlee Matlin, that burden came at the tender age of 21, when she…

‘Plainclothes’ Review: Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey’s Scattershot Cop Thriller Fails to Sting

About 20 minutes into Carmen Emmi’s thriller Plainclothes, which follows a series of undercover sting operations to capture gay men trolling for lovers in a suburban mall bathroom, I had little hope for it to amount to much. From the…

A Searing Send-Up Of America Taking Care of (Show) Business In Iraq [Sundance]

The politics of the American military invasion of Iraq have shifted in the last two decades. The current president, for example, has decided it would be preferable to lie about always being opposed to it than own up to supporting…

Sami Zayn Proves He’s on CM Punk’s Level and Gunther Lays Down the Law

WWE Raw aired live from Cleveland, Ohio last night, with the post-Royal Rumble fallout setting the stage for the Road to WrestleMania 41, and we were treated to some storyline teases, sneak attacks, and a banger of a main event.…

This Opposites-Attract Procedural Returns With an Even Slower Burn

I may not have understood it when I was younger, but now I see why procedural shows with a will-they-won't-they element drag things out for as long as they do. With a case-of-the-week type of story, where things reset more…

Isabelle Huppert Gets Lost In Flora Lau’s Video Game World [Sundance]

PARK CITY – A sporadically interesting though ultimately superficial exploration of online connection, video games, and modern alienation, writer-director Flora Lau’s “Luz” is a film in search of something greater than it is never quite able to grab hold of.…

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