Reel Reviews | Speak. (Sundance ’25)
The pressure is real, the stakes are high, and the voices are powerful — but does this behind-the-scenes look at the world’s top high school orators deliver the impact it promises?
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Reel Reviews | Omaha (Sundance ’25)
A grieving father takes his kids on a cross-country road trip in Cole Webley’s somber and unsettling debut, Omaha — a quiet meditation on loss, love, and the lengths we go to hold on when everything is falling apart.
Reel Reviews | Atropia (Sundance ’25)
Atropia is a sharp and surreal war satire about a struggling actress who falls for a soldier during a simulated conflict on a U.S. military base.
Reel Reviews | Luz (Sundance ’25)
Luz weaves a tale of fractured families across Paris and Chongqing that converge in a surreal VR realm. While visually rich and thematically ambitious, the film struggles to ground its emotional core.
Reel Reviews | Move Ya Body: The Birth of House (Sundance ’25)
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House is Elegance Bratton’s electrifying deep dive into the Black, queer roots of a global movement.
Reel Reviews | Star Trek: Section 31
Michelle Yeoh returns to the shadows of Starfleet in Star Trek: Section 31, but this long-awaited spin-off feels more like a missed mission than a masterstroke.
Reel Reviews | The Virgin of Quarry Lake (Sundance ’25)
Set against Argentina’s economic collapse, The Virgin of Quarry Lake weaves teenage obsession, witchcraft, and coming-of-age angst into a haunting supernatural tale of love, jealousy, and unintended consequences.
Reel Reviews | Seeds (Sundance ’25)
In Seeds, filmmaker Brittany Shyne digs deep into the lives of Black generational farmers in the American South, capturing the beauty, struggle, and legacy of those fighting to hold onto their ancestral land.