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Sundance Film Festival

From the hot new discoveries of the independent film world to the buzzed-about big-name titles, we've got all of the latest news and reviews for this year's Sundance Film Festival

Joshua Rothkopf
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Joshua Rothkopf
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It would be astounding if this year's Sundance Film Festival offered up as many goodies as did last year's, which gave us the world premieres of Love Is Strange, the new horror classic The Babadook and our number one in the best movies of 2014, Richard Linklater's Oscar-nominated Boyhood. But we're extremely hopeful—the fest is always good for surprises. (Don't expect lots of action movies, although we'd love to see another thriller like The Guest, also from 2014's edition.) In any case, we'll be in Park City, reviewing all the buzziest titles and unexpected sensations. Here's where the reviews will go live–bookmark us.

When is Sundance Film Festival?

This year, the fest runs January 22–February 1, 2015.

Where is Sundance Film Festival?

The festival takes place in Park City, Utah.

Sundance Film Festival 2015 coverage

Brooklyn

Brooklyn

  • 3 out of 5 stars

Even in 1952, all the cool kids lived in Brooklyn. Unfolding like a Nicholas Sparks remake of The Immigrant, John Crowley’s Brooklyn is a lightweight...

Me & Earl & the Dying Girl

Me & Earl & the Dying Girl

  • 4 out of 5 stars

The Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection...

Mistress America

Mistress America

  • 5 out of 5 stars

Noah Baumbach’s films are consumed with the terror of becoming, hence the reason why college has played such a large part in them. For the overeducated but...

The Forbidden Room

The Forbidden Room

  • 4 out of 5 stars

Welcome to The Forbidden Room, an exhilarating slipstream of two-strip technicolor havoc that feels like an exquisite corpse assembled from every leftover idea...

The End of the Tour

The End of the Tour

  • 4 out of 5 stars

Like the black monolith in 2001, late novelist David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest casts a long shadow over the chatty, sharply observed The End of the Tour....

Chuck Norris vs Communism

Chuck Norris vs Communism

  • 3 out of 5 stars

Once upon a time, Dirty Dancing was considered too erotic to be seen in Romania. The ban on the triple-X-rated Patrick Swayze classic was nothing personal, but...

The Witch

The Witch

  • 5 out of 5 stars

There are confident first features, and there’s The Witch, the exhilaratingly scary debut in which writer-director Robert Eggers tramples over the cowardice of...

The Bronze

The Bronze

Playing a desperate ex-Olympian still milking her Ohio hometown for freebies years after her expiration date, Melissa Rauch is the only joke in The Bronze, an...

Past Sundance Film Festival coverage