Tag: Sundance 2026
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If I Go Will They Miss Me Review: Myth, Memory, and a Father’s Absence
In Walter Thompson-Hernández’s lyrical Sundance drama, twelve-year-old Lil Ant turns his father’s absence into Greek mythology, casting him as Odysseus and then Poseidon, while his mother, Lozita, carries the harder truth. A review of the film’s performances, its dreamlike purple-and-blue cinematography, and its quiet argument that presence is not the same as consistency.
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Buddy Review: Inside Casper Kelly’s Bloody Takedown of ’90s Kids’ TV
Casper Kelly’s feature debut, Buddy, uses the sugary aesthetic of ’90s kids’ TV — think Barney & Friends by way of analog horror — to tell a much darker story about what happens to children on sets run by people who hold all the power. Behind the felt puppets and primary colors is a pointed,…
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The Invite and I Want Your Sex: Olivia Wilde’s Year of Wanting
Olivia Wilde is having one of the most interesting years of any actor in 2026 — not because of box office numbers, but because of range. In The Invite, which she also directs, Wilde plays a sexually starved wife whose marriage cracks open the night her upstairs neighbors come to dinner. In I Want Your…