Life of the mind: many of the films on view through the festival‘s virtual portal ranged from pallid to dismal, but Khalil ...

In Ang Lee’s films—subject of an upcoming retrospective at Asia Society in New York—what seems to be about culture is a condition of the family, and vice versa.

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As I was writing this report from Sundance 2025, the festival announced the winner of its Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition: Hailey Gates’s Atropia, a mordant satire set in one of ...