The Sundance Film Festival guide

The unofficial start of the serious movie lover’s calendar, Sundance is always reliable for hot indie debuts

Friday February 8 2019

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We won’t lie: The Sundance Film Festival has been good to us. Very good. In 2014, it hosted the world premiere of Richard Linklater’s mighty Boyhood. Then in 2015, it was Brooklyn and the revelatory Saoirse Ronan. Manchester by the Sea knocked us out in 2016. In 2017, Sundance delivered the euphoric Call Me by Your Name—and if that weren't enough, last year, we were traumatized by Ari Aster's game-changing Hereditary. The unifying thread? All five of those films ending up topping our respective lists for the best movies of the year. In short, we trust these curators. Time Out will be in Park City, reviewing all the buzziest titles and unexpected sensations. This page is where the reviews will be collected—bookmark it.

When is Sundance Film Festival?

The annual 10-day festival runs January 24–February 3, 2019.

Where is Sundance Film Festival?

The festival takes place in Park City, Utah.

How do I get tickets to Sundance Film Festival?

Buy tickets at the official festival website.

Sundance Film Festival 2019

Brittany Runs a Marathon

4 out of 5 stars

In writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo’s winning debut Brittany Runs a Marathon, the hard-partying, happy-go-lucky title character seems to chuckle her way...

Fighting with My Family

4 out of 5 stars

Spoiler alert: You do know that pro wrestling is fake, right? Don’t want to crush any dreams here. The boastful, performative nature of WWE, spiked with mini...

Late Night

3 out of 5 stars

In Late Night, screenwriter and costar Mindy Kaling dares to imagine a world where a top female comedian has been hosting a popular late-night talk show for...

The Souvenir

5 out of 5 stars

A cinematic memoir of once-in-a-decade emotional precision and ambition, Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir does many things so exquisitely, it’s hard to know where to...

The Report

3 out of 5 stars

The facts in the political thriller The Report—of which there are many—are scary and worth getting out there. Essentially, the CIA embarked on a post-9/11...

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

5 out of 5 stars

It starts with the city of San Francisco, famously a town of outsiders, freaks and countercultures. The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a sweetly...

Honey Boy

4 out of 5 stars

With the profoundly confessional Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf comes out of his performative shell of paper bags and bizarre stunts. An honest reconciliation with...

The Farewell

4 out of 5 stars

Bittersweet and maturely witty, writer-director Lulu Wang’s Chinese-American family comedy The Farewell beats with an immigrant’s split heart. Featuring a...

Apollo 11

5 out of 5 stars

The most perfect movie that will ever be made about its subject, Apollo 11 takes the purest documentary idea imaginable—telling the story of the first journey...

After the Wedding

3 out of 5 stars

A chilly, frustrating Danish film becomes a chilly, frustrating American one, as director Susanne Bier’s original 2006 version of After the Wedding gets a...

Memory: The Origins of Alien

4 out of 5 stars

Sleek, organic and vicious to the core, Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien is responsible for the most nightmares since Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho—both films changed...

Archived Sundance Film Festival coverage

5 out of 5 stars