Festival Reports
What To Watch: Sundance Online!
Eight festival films to dial up this weekend. Plus: Two chillers on Netflix.
Ty Burr
Weekly Digest
Watch List (Bi-)Weekly Recap 1/23/24
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Awards 🏆
The 2024 Oscar Nominations: Bizarro Business As Usual
Calm down. Have some tea. All can be explained.
Festival Reports
Sundance Report II: "Love" and "Pain" and The Whole Damn Thing
Reviews of "A Real Pain," "Love Lies Bleeding," "Black Box Diaries," My Old Ass," "The Outrun," and "Presence."
Festival Reports
Sundance Report I: The Cute Edition
"Thelma," "Between The Temples," "Love Me," "Eno," and "Sasquatch Sunset" play Park City
Festival Reports
10 Movies I Want to See at Sundance
Five of which you can watch at home too.
Good Movies 📽
Two Good Films: "Black At Yale" and "Street Corner Stories"
Celebrate MLK Jr. Day with two groundbreaking documentaries by Warrington Hudlin.
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 1/12/24
Movies, music, and bad awards shows, among other subjects.
Music 🎸
Playlist Madness: Byrds v. Fairport
With further thoughts on the egotistical futility of music management.
Good Movies 📽
Of White Whales and Witch Hunts
Ken Russell's "The Devils" surfaces at last on demand; also, "Northern Exposure" and "Cluny Brown"
Awards 🏆
One Good Film, One Dire Awards Show
The Globes retreated to its rubber-chicken roots; James Gray's "The Immigrants" is this week's streaming best bet.
Whither the Watch List in 2024?
A follow-up about that Substack Nazi thing.