Sundance Film Festival

Hala

By Norman Gidney | September 2019

Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own. Hala, from writer-director Minhal Baig, is…

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Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own. Hala, from writer-director Minhal Baig, is a wonderfully...

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A young woman who works as a karaoke hostess in Koreatown reconnects with her estranged brother in the final days of their father's life. In what will...

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The Amazing Johnathan is a comedian and magician that expertly subverts and toys with familiar conventions and expectations. It only makes sense that a...

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Director Gurinder Chadha’s latest film Blinded by the Light is a pleasing movie featuring some outstanding acting and plenty of cleverly executed humor,...

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Writer-director Bart Freundlich’s adaptation of Susanne Bier’s 2006 Oscar-nominated film After the Wedding (it was Denmark’s foreign language...

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All of us (Americans, as well as most of the world) have heard the shadowed stories of China’s “one child per couple” policy. But, maybe because of...

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It’s only been five months since Awkwafina broke out with her hilarious supporting turn in Crazy Rich Asians, but she is already showing new sides of her...

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The Mountain presents a mid-century America stripped of its high design gloss, faded and flawed, but still populated with stylish, elegant...

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Late Night begs one important question: why isn’t Emma Thompson the lead in more movies? Better yet, why isn’t she the lead in every movie? Thompson...

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“Save the whales” only begins to explain Sea of Shadows, directed by Richard Ladkani. The vaquita, the planet’s smallest species of whale, is near...

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