Movies

Celeste Dalla Porta stuns in a superficial meditation on the relationship between youth and beauty.

Sundance: Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s latest makes use of a treasure trove of archival footage to follow a charismatic male mentor and his circle of acolytes.

Sundance: Anchored by incredible performances from first-time actors Juan Collado and Destiny Checo, Joel Alfonso Vargas' portrait of life in The Bronx is one of the best debuts of the 2025 festival.

Sundance: One of a handful of documentaries at the festival that normalizes trans and non-binary bodies’ right to gender-affirming care, “GEN_” also examines people receiving expert fertility treatments at a Milan public hospital.

Sundance is in crisis, but the best films that played at the festival this year suggest that crisis might be the engine of its renewal.

Sundance: "Strawberry Mansion" co-director Albert Birney's latest surreal odyssey about male anxiety is one of the festival's weirdest and most inventive movies.

Sundance: This story of a closeted gay cop who falls in love with one of his targets tries too much experimentation without having the narrative fundamentals down.

Sundance: Sierra Falconer's low-key debut consists of four effervescent vignettes set on the same Michigan lake.

Sundance: Michael Shanks' feature debut mashes up (quite literally) heartfelt relationship drama and icky body horror, to crowd-pleasing (and -screaming) effect.

A rom-com that's much funnier when its leads are flirting with disaster than it is when they're flirting with each other.

Sundance: Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s precisely lensed film follows Sara Shahverdi, the first councilwoman in the history of her remote village.

Sundance: A young man in Los Angeles ingratiates himself with a famous musician in Alex Russell’s smart and stylish feature debut.