Has the Sundance film festival lost its mojo?
Underwhelming films and some disinterested buyers left many wondering what’s next for the Utah-based festival
Lurker review – deviously entertaining Hollywood hanger-on thriller
A desperate wannabe attaches himself to a singer on the rise in a darkly compelling breakout from Alex Russell, writer for Beef and The Bear
Tony Langlois obituary
Other lives: Ethnomusicologist and festival founder who was an active member of the sound-art community in Cork
‘He’s going home’: new film documents the fight to free Leonard Peltier
Sundance’s Free Leonard Peltier outlines the decades-long efforts to free the Indigenous activist from prison – up to the commutation of his sentence one week before the premiere
Opus review – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud
The cult of celebrity is targeted in a progressively nonsensical and poorly made debut starring Ayo Edebiri
Sorry, Baby review – a warm, bitingly funny refocus of the trauma plot
In their feature debut, writer-director Eva Victor depicts the aftermath of sexual assault with striking naturalism and surprising grace
‘They don’t want you to see the slave labor’: a new film goes inside Alabama’s prisons
New documentary The Alabama Solution exposes rampant state violence and inhumane conditions inside prisons
Magic Farm review – Chloë Sevigny can’t lift flat comedy of inept Americans abroad
A farcical tale of entitled New Yorkers arriving in rural Argentina to make a docuseries is too limp and underbaked to hit its targets
‘A reminder that we can resist’: hard-hitting documentary takes aim at anti-trans rhetoric
Heightened Scutiny is a new film premiering at Sundance looking at the troubling rise in anti-trans legislation and the mainstream media outlets who have helped stoke the fire
Atropia review – military roleplaying satire is a frustrating jumble of ideas
Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner are participants in an odd exercise in a debut feature that never figures out what it should be
Together review – codependent relationship body horror is a fun ride
Real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie play a couple put to the ultimate test in a slickly and sickly made thriller
Rebuilding review – Josh O’Connor is a stoic rancher in sensitive, if slight, wildfire drama
The actor delivers another impressive performance, recalling his other rural drama God’s Own Country, in a timely film about recovery
Zodiac Killer Project review – true crime critique rescues aborted documentary
Charlie Shackleton’s would-be film about the serial killer salvages success with this funny and insightful work
Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton stuns in meditative period drama
Sundance film festival: The actor gives a subtle and sensitive performance in a quiet, beautifully filmed drama set in early 20th-century America
‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries
A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance