This year’s Sundance Film Festival just concluded. Your fearless correspondent delivered a roundup of the tensions roiling the festival at the moment, not to mention the films worth seeking out and the ones best avoided. That is available for your reading pleasure at PopMatters:

There seemed to be two questions on everyone’s mind at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The first was the same as ever at this festival or any other: “What have you seen?” This question is often academic because there aren’t many available tickets left to get by the time it’s asked – usually by a stranger in line for another film…

I also contributed some full-length reviews to Slant Magazine:

• Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius): Questlove’s Thrilling Sly Stone Tribute
• Peter Hujar’s Day: Ira Sachs’s Intimate Celebration of an Artist’s Bohemian Ethos
• Last Days: Justin Lin’s Superficial Portrait of a Missionary’s Tragic Demise
• Kiss of the Spider Woman: Bill Condon’s Surprisingly Apolitical Musical Adaptation
• Bubble & Squeak: An Absurdist Lark with a Bittersweet Aftertaste