Film
![Slamdance Film Review: Lovers](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Slamdance-Film-Festival-Lovers-2.tiff.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Lovers
With the gorgeous backdrop of Copenhagen, Denmark, Lovers explores the inner workings of three people at different stages of their respective love lives, in an almost episodic sequence. … read more
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Sundance Film Review: The Oslo Diaries
In this Sundance World Documentary, The Oslo Diaries recalls a new low in Palestine-Israel relations in 1992. Each nation sent a secret delegation to Oslo, Norway, to negotiate a peace agreement. Surprisingly, they had settled on one. … read more
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Sundance Film Review: Private Life
In Sundance premiere Private Life, Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti) have become obsessed with getting pregnant. … read more
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Slamdance Film Review: Fake Tattoos
Opening with a confusion of racing cars and yelling to a black background, the first actual scene of Le Faux Tatouages is of brooding, angry teen Théo (Anthony Therrien) wearing a Dead Kennedys T-shirt, being carded at a convenience store while buying his first pack of beer on his 18th birthday (the scene is set in Montreal). … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Shirkers](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Sundance-Film-Festival-Shirkers.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Shirkers
Sandi Tan might’ve been a strange teenager, but it was in the very best way. Growing up in Singapore, she published a zine and scribbled hundreds of handwritten letters and postcards. Mostly, she obsessed over film. … read more
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Sundance Film Festival: Our New President
Before the screening, director Maxim Pozdorovkin jokingly warned that his film, Our New President, had so much archival Russian propaganda footage that it was probably not safe for human consumption in one sitting, saying, “You’re not going to feel good at the end of this.” … read more
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Sundance Film Review: Genesis 2.0
Sundance World Documentary film Genesis 2.0 is beautifully shot. Yakut “Hunters” travel to the isles to dig for mammoth tusks, which they sell with aspirations for riches. Some sell to/for scientific projects while others sell tusks that end up in the hands of artisans. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: The Starry Sky Above Me](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Slamdance-Film-Festival-The-Starry-Sky-Above-Me-2.tiff.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: The Starry Sky Above Me
The Starry Sky Above Me feels especially off-kilter. It’s not that it’s overtly outlandish or psychedelic, but rather that it sits just on the line between believable and incongruous. A lot of my enjoyment with this film came from its twists and surprises. … read more
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Sundance Film Review: Time Share (Tiempo Compartido)
Sundance World Drama Selection Time Share (Tiempo Compartido) intrigues with its elusive screenplay, which alternates between the narratives of Pedro and Andrés. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: CHARLIE AND HANNAH’S GRAND NIGHT OUT](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Slamdance-Film-Festival-CHARLIE-AND-HANNAH-5.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: CHARLIE AND HANNAH’S GRAND NIGHT OUT
Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out is as fun, strange and magical as the title implies. It starts off in a fairly ordinary fashion, introducing Charlie (Evelien Bosmans) and Hannah (Daphne Wellens), best friends in their mid-20s on their way to a house party with friends. … read more