A still from "The Lake" by Abby Ellis, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
"No irony intended (perhaps) in a documentary about the imminent environmental collapse of Utah’s Great Salt Lake ecosystem . . . premiering at the last #SundanceFilmFestival to be held in the state."
@timhayes.bsky.social reviews "The Lake." bit.ly/4qXOOnJ
Alyssa Emily Marvin appears in 'Run Amok' by NB Mager, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Tandem Pictures.
"That topic is the ongoing plague of U.S. school shootings, and the approach is a deliberate tonal jumble of pathos, sincerity, tragedy and whimsy; something for everyone (to be cross with)."
@timhayes.bsky.social reviews "Run Amok" at #SundanceFilmFestival. bit.ly/4rw0u13
Debbie Harry appears in 'Public Access' by David Shadrack Smith, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by TV Party.
"If this is a record of wild urban free expression, then these snapshots of it are in a parent’s photo album."
@timhayes.bsky.social reviews David Shadrack Smith's "Public Access" at #SundanceFilmFestival. bit.ly/4c5h5UM
Iliza Shlesinger appears in "Chasing Summer" by Josephine Decker, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Eric Branco/Summer 2001 LLC
"'Chasing Summer' is frequently hilarious, but it is also attuned to the emotional logic beneath self-sabotage."
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews Josephine Decker's "Chasing Summer" at #SundanceFilmFestival. bit.ly/3NyFE2x
Zoey Deutch, John Slattery, Ken Marino, Miles Gutierrez-Riley and Ben Wang appear in "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass" by David Wain, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
"A sitcom-bright spoof of Americana that filters 'The Wizard of Oz' through celebrity culture, the film is at once junk-drawer eclectic and curiously sincere about the small, stubborn dreams of its heroine."
Martin Tsai reviews David Wain's "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass." bit.ly/4a1saUs
"Unlike Costa-Gavras, Mr. Park frames the protagonist as more blue-collar. He also cast Mr. Lee, excellent as a villain in 'Squid Game,' over someone amiable like José Garcia of 'Le couperet.' "
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "No Other Choice." bit.ly/4avxHEG
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“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldn’t metabolize Palestine. It still can’t.”
David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...
Bi Gan’s new film, “Resurrection,” offers a vision of history as a shape-shifting force. “Each era has these exceptionally strange, dreamlike, ephemeral moments—yet it seems we never film them,” he said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xvbYQM
“The voice cast features such luminaries as Koji Yakusho, and it’s a relief the studio has the good sense to not to dub it in English, at least for now.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "Scarlet." bit.ly/4pzb8ne
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L to R: Dacre Montgomery and Bill Skarsgård in DEAD MAN'S WIRE by Gus Van Sant, courtesy of Mongrel Media
“Based on the true story of perhaps the Luigi Mangione of his time, the film is very much reflective of the national mood at the moment.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "Dead Man's Wire." bit.ly/4q2hrzp
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“Hosoda employs traditional hand-drawn style for the characters but places them against immersive photo-realistic C.G.I. backdrops. While this is nothing new, his particular art style creates interesting contrast and juxtaposition.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "Scarlet." bit.ly/4pzb8ne
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“Indeed, he nails precisely what makes the film so resonant with those who have been wronged by powerful entities and the sense of helplessness carved deep into their psyches.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "Dead Man's Wire." bit.ly/4q2hrzp
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“With [Sean] Baker as its editor, 'Left-Handed Girl' definitely shares the hyperkinetic energy emblematic of his work.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews. bit.ly/4oFctbA
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“The perennially debonair leading man brings with him substantial baggage from his own time in the limelight, which immediately resonates with those who’ve borne witness to his career.”
@martintsai.bsky.social on George Clooney . . . oops, we meant "Jay Kelly." bit.ly/4oFQMbr
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Jay Kelly. (L-R) George Clooney as Jay Kelly and Adam Sandler as Ron Sukenick in Jay Kelly. Cr. Peter Mountain/Netflix © 2025.
“The perennially debonair leading man brings with him substantial baggage from his own time in the limelight, which immediately resonates with those who’ve borne witness to his career.”
@martintsai.bsky.social on George Clooney . . . oops, we meant "Jay Kelly." bit.ly/4oFQMbr
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Nina Ye as I-Jing in Left-Handed Girl. Cr. LEFT-HANDED GIRL FILM PRODUCTION CO, LTD © 2025.
“With [Sean] Baker as its editor, 'Left-Handed Girl' definitely shares the hyperkinetic energy emblematic of his work.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews. bit.ly/4oFctbA
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it took two decades of trying for me to land a piece in
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social
at this rate i will be 60 before i get a staff job somewhere.
anyway. i'm not going shut up about my review of "peter hujar's day": bit.ly/47utCi1
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“Though 'Sentimental Value' doesn’t center on a romantic relationship as its predecessor did, it nevertheless rehashes some of the same dynamics and feelings of guilt and regret.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews. bit.ly/47rTICk
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(L to R) Emma Stone as Michelle, Aidan Delbis as Don and Jesse Plemons as Teddy in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.
“The film challenges the superhero genre narrative that is so deeply ingrained in us and the latent sexist feelings toward successful woman go-getters, all while reenforcing and reaffirming these tropes.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews #BUGONIA. bit.ly/3Wd9pHd
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Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.
“The film challenges the superhero genre narrative that is so deeply ingrained in us and the latent sexist feelings toward successful woman go-getters, all while reenforcing and reaffirming these tropes.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews #BUGONIA. bit.ly/3Wd9pHd
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Not to be THAT dictionary, but…
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
“There’s no horror or suspense whatsoever, just magical dismemberments under golden hues and glittering harps on the soundtrack. It’s all kind of perverse, and I’m not sure if Mr. del Toro really meant it that way.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "Frankenstein." bit.ly/4qd5Azq
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“It’s especially timely to us in the West, as our political climates grow more tenuous.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "It Was Just an Accident." bit.ly/4obfJe2
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Frankenstein. Jacob Elordi as The Creature in Frankenstein . Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
“There’s no horror or suspense whatsoever, just magical dismemberments under golden hues and glittering harps on the soundtrack. It’s all kind of perverse, and I’m not sure if Mr. del Toro really meant it that way.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "Frankenstein." bit.ly/4qd5Azq
#filmsky @netflix.com
“It’s especially timely to us in the West, as our political climates grow more tenuous.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "It Was Just an Accident." bit.ly/4obfJe2
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A House of Dynamite. (Featured L-R) Tracy Letts as General Anthony Brady and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Major General Steven Kyle in A House of Dynamite. Cr. Eros Hoagland/Netflix © 2025.
“'A House of Dynamite,' is, for the most part, one of those end-of-days Armageddon movies, except it never actually culminates in special effects-laden spectacles of total obliteration.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews. bit.ly/4q5ZeSf
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(L to R) Andrew Garfield as Hank and Julia Roberts as Alma in AFTER THE HUNT, from Amazon MGM Studios. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios © 2025 Amazon Content Services LLC. All Rights Reserved.
“The script’s ambiguities regarding the perpetrator and the victim are very nuanced, and Mr. Guadagnino seemingly backs away, possibly due to the optics of victim blaming.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews #AfterTheHuntMovie. bit.ly/3Wx2wjT
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"There’s an existing, well-worn trope of underdog stories in sports. Mr. Safdie resists a lot of that low-hanging fruit."
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "The Smashing Machine." bit.ly/485YFS2
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"There’s an existing, well-worn trope of underdog stories in sports. Mr. Safdie resists a lot of that low-hanging fruit."
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews "The Smashing Machine." bit.ly/485YFS2
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