My Sundance capsule for the Salt Lake City Weekly

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Marvelous and the Black Hole **1/2

There’s earnestness aplenty in writer/director Kate Tsang’s comedy-drama, but earnestness isn’t always enough to give a predictable plot dynamic a real...

★★★½ Watched 02 Jul, 2016

THE FITS (Anna Rose Holmer, USA, 2016) 7

Thought when I was watching it that this felt somewhat slight. It's not going for heavy plotting,...

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★★★½ Watched 07 Jul, 2017

THE BIG SICK (Michael Showalter, USA, 2017) 7

Coming around to the view after a couple of weeks that Kumail Nanjiani isn't much of a...

NOMADLAND (Chloe Zhao, USA, 2020) 3

... and it’d’ve been even lower were it not for Strathairn, Swanky, the guy at the end whose son killed himself and other small character bits. My inner Marxist...

FLEE (Jonas Rasmussen, Denmark, 2021) 7 V

Documentarians generally profit from closeness to their subjects, especially in profiles; winning trust helps capture a life’s privileged moments. But FLEE...

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★½ Watched 20 Oct, 2017

WONDERSTRUCK (Haynes, USA, 2017, 3)

What a narratively-constipated mess that had me nodding off in spots and never regretting it. There’s two...

★★★★½ Watched 19 Oct, 2018

THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos, Britain, 2018, 9)

Finally, Lanthimos sticks the landing, and does so after another enormously...

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BELFAST (Kenneth Branagh, Britain, 2021) 6

I am about five years younger than Kenneth Branagh and was raised less than 150 miles from Belfast in a city divided (if less vigorously and violently) between...

AMERICAN FICTION (Cord Jefferson, USA, 2023) 7

"Or what if BAMBOOZLED were a good and smart movie (which is very definitely a fiction)…?"

More at: vjmorton.wordpress.com/2023/12/26/christmas-leftovers/

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JOJO RABBIT (Taika Waititi, USA, 2019) 1

aka GRÜNES BUCH … mimicking the purgatorial experience I had last year here of seeing a feel-good movie about a historical atrocity that the audience...