S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 20, 2022 SXSW 2022: To Leslie is familiar, but its eye is unflinching and its compassion deep Andrea Riseborough and Marc Maron shine in a study of a one-time lottery winner years after her life has gone bust.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 20, 2022 SXSW 2022: Millie Lies Low hits some high notes against appropriately awkward storytelling One bad decision leads to another in this well-acted and sharply filmed comedy.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 18, 2022 SXSW 2022: The Cow should be put out to pasture Winona Ryder is the sole saving grace in The Cow, an unnecessarily convoluted mystery with a distastefully archaic view of women & aging
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 18, 2022 SXSW 2022: Stay the Night is a pleasant Canadian romantic excursion Not quite as good as the films it mimics, Stay the Night still has several charms of its own
S Categories Features Festivals Interviews Sundance 2022 January 28, 2022 Sundance 2022: Alli Haapasalo on Girl Picture & the coming-of-age story Director Alli Haapasalo talks to the Spool about putting a contemporary and insightful spin on a well-worn trope.
S Categories Features Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2022 January 27, 2022 Sundance 2022: Resurrection takes a baffling turn It won't be for everyone, but this thriller's bold, mind-boggling twists will win some devoted fans.
S Categories Features Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2022 January 27, 2022 Sundance 2022: Call Jane turns history into melodrama Call Jane takes a compelling story about abortion activists and turns it into cheap melodrama.
S Categories Features Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2022 January 24, 2022 Sundance 2022: The Cathedral is a unique take on a coming-of-age story Ricky D’Ambrose tells an autobiographical tale of childhood as a collection of memory fragments
S Categories Features Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2022 January 23, 2022 Sundance 2022: in Hatching, emotional neglect leads to horrifying results The Finnish film starts as timely satire, and ends as an unsettling horror film about a child’s love and rage
S Categories Festivals Movies Sundance 2022 January 22, 2022 Sundance 2022: After Speak No Evil, you’ll never make new friends again Christian Tardrup’s class satire/horror is bleak and gruesome, but ultimately empty