Dozens of new movies made their premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2023. From 'Cassandro' to 'Theater Camp,' these were our favorites.
"The Persian Version," from filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz, also took home the festival's other major trophy, the U.S. dramatic audience award. The family dramedy follows a young Iranian-American woman struggling to understand her mother .
Wrestling fans sadly don’t have a large canon of great films . That’s why it’s so cool that this underdog biopic puts a headlock on viewers’ hearts and minds. Gael García Bernal's Saúl hangs up his mask – a signature aspect of the Mexican luchador set – and embraces his queer identity inside and outside the ring by being a flamboyant “exótico,” making an archetypal character historically jeered and mocked into one that’s a runaway success.has never been better than in William Oldroyd's dark erotic thriller, playing a bewitching prison psychologist whose mousy colleague falls under her spell. Hathaway strikes a perfect balance of camp and compassion, as she slowly chips away at the sophisticated façade of her martini-swilling character. Gorgeously shot and scored, with a genuinely jaw-dropping twist, “Eileen” is the deliciously demented sister to Todd Haynes’The best-selling young adult author of books including “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” “Blubber” and “Forever” has plenty to say about the controversies she’s faced. Blume reflects on serving as a beacon to young readers who felt she was the only adult they could trust to be honest about major life issues. For a documentary about an octogenarian writing for adolescents, it’s a pretty punk-rock story of a woman who views stories about puberty, sex and coming-of-age, particularly for girls, as something to spotlight and celebrate, rather than shame and hide away.Asante Blackk finds his breakout role in this sci-fi comedy based on M.T. Anderson’s 2019 novel that wonders how an alien invasion would impact the Earth on an economic scale. Also featuring Tiffany Haddish, William Jackson Harper, Josh Hamilton and Michael Gandolfini, it’s both an amusing satire and thoughtful commentary about love in the age of social media and financial exploitations of the working class.
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