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Sundance 2023: Little Richard: I Am Everything, Squaring the Circle, The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Three of the festival’s docs explore critical figures in art and academia—to varying results. These days, celebrity-based documentaries, especially the ones that eventually find a place in the Sundance lineup, tend to fall into one of two categories—they either serve as cinematic victory laps for proven successes, or they work as reclamation projects serving to ... Sundance 2023: Little Richard: I Am Everything, Squaring the Circle, The Disappearance of Shere Hite