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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Bunnylovr”
Lathered in the cold blue glow of laptop screens and sprinkled with a dash of Charlie XCX soundtrack cues, Katarina Zhu’s directorial debut Bunnylovr promises an cool and honest, uncompromising modern look at sexuality in the age of webcam communication. In the last five years, Facetime-style communication has grown to…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Love, Brooklyn’
It’s easy to assume what type of movie you’re getting when you hear a title like Love, Brooklyn. The two main subjects are right there in the name, but while this may come off as a love letter to its city or a series of adorable meet-cutes in the concrete…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Plainclothes’
It’s hard not to think about Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” when discussing the premise of Carmine Emmi’s new dramatic pseudo-thriller Plainclothes. The pressure of feeling under surveillance for just living your true life. Our main character, Lucas, employed as the “watcher”, who slowly unravels under the intense nature of his…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Omaha’For anyone familiar with Robert Machoian, his first directorial feature The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) is a gorgeously-shot, but ultra-grim, gut-puncher. His follow-up, The Integrity of Joseph Chambers (2022) put critics in the same state of mind. Now, he doesn’t return to direct this new John Magaro-led tearjerker Omaha,…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Bubble & Squeak’
Inspiration from other prestigious filmmakers spilling over into the work of new filmmakers has been a common trend since the start of the previous century. Often, it’s endearing homage or best case, subtle nods that allow these creatives to take what they’ve learned from their elders and form something new.…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Ricky’
Writer-director Rashad Frett’s 2023 short “Ricky” was a Sundance-selected short centered on a young man’s experiences relieved from incarceration, but burdened with parole. Two years later, he returns with a more fully-fleshed out feature-length version of this story, complete with a bigger cast. Expanding from short to feature can be…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Lake)’
Writer-director Sierra Falconer has reached back into her childhood memories of summers at her old Michigan lake home and managed to spawn a delicate and vivid capsulation of simplicity and romanticism on the water. For those that love soaking in the summer air of lake home life, Sunfish (and Other…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Sorry, Baby’
Eva Victor is a voice to be reckoned with. After accumulating a small but full-force fandom in the comedy circuit, she has arrived to sit down and discuss the hilarious topic of… sexual assault. Except her approach isn’t to submerge this story into pure miserable grimness, it’s to see if…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Atropia’
You may or may not remember Hailey Gate’s small acting role in 2024’s Challengers, but regardless, her ambitions in filmmaking and conversations on set with Luca Guadagnino led to the inception of her first feature film. Spawned from her interest in the bizarre training methods of the US military, she…
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Continue reading →: Post-Oscar Nomination Thoughts
Let’s just dive head first into it. No, Emilia Perez having 13 Oscar nominations does not automatically mean that the Academy thinks it’s on the same level or better than The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Or a better film than Roma or Crouching Tiger, Hidden…
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Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2027 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“All of A Sudden”
“Behemoth!”
“Digger”
“Dune Part III”
“Fjord”
“The Odyssey”
“A Place in Hell”
“Project Hail Mary”
“Untitled Damien Chazelle Film”
“Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical”
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