A look at 7 standout indie films from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, including 'Rebuilding,' 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You,' and 'Lurker.'
Questions about the future hung in the frigid January air last week at Park City, Utah, during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival . There was the usual hand-wringing about a lack of commercially minded movies on the slate, and a dearth of big sales. And there were more existential questions as well.
—TA Train Dreams The source material for Train Dreams–a lovely grief-stricken portrait of early twentieth-century Northwestern American logging country by filmmaker Clint Bentley–is a novella by the late Denis Johnson—one of his prettier, later, off-hand works. It has made for a stunningly beautiful movie with another brilliant performance by the chameleonic Australian actor Joel Edgerton.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL INDEPENDENT FILM MOVIE REVIEWS REBUILDING IF I HAD LEGS I'd KICK YOU LURKER
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