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Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 10:00PM 
Meeting characters at a moment where they want to end their lives is a complicated endeavor. It’s important to introduce them and explain who they are while communicating what has happened to get them to this mental place. Such narratives are often melancholy, but they can also be unexpectedly funny, as is the case with On the Count of Three...
Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 7:44PM 
It feels like there’s at least one memorable horse movie every year at Sundance. Dream Horse played last year (as did Horse Girl), The Mustang was a hit in 2019, and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider screened in 2018. There’s just something about the bond between man and the animal that’s not necessarily known as his best friend but is still thought of in quite an endearing manner. The best of those films tend to focus just as much on the human protagonist’s own internal and interpersonal struggles as they do on their relationship with their prized steed. This year’s signature Sundance entry, Jockey, does just that…
Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 11:40AM by Jason Adams
Titled like a Bible story or a fable of ol' Aesop's (or perhaps it's the start of a dirty limerick), John and the Hole does indeed contain both a John, and a hole. John, played by Captain Fantastic's Charlie Shotwell (and seen just recently doing the disaffected youth thing, and to better effect if you ask me, in Sean Durkin's The Nest), is an absent-eyed 13-year-old sociopath who only seems to spurt to life when playing video-games and screaming obscenities at his best friend via headset. Otherwise he wanders his cavernous home in a daze, occasionally aided by some pills he steals from his parent's drawer...
Jennifer Ehle, Michael C Hall, Sundance, Taissa Farmiga Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 10:30PM by Eurocheese
As the first acquisition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Flee made headlines as an early success story. To anyone who attended the premiere screening, it was no surprise that the film was snapped up so quickly. Between its lovely animation and personal message, it speaks to a refugee’s journey in a heartfelt way. I shed tears at several points during the film, and based on the reactions I heard during the Q&A afterwards, we’ll be hearing much more about its emotional impact in the future.
The story begins as a conversation between two friends, one of whom (Amin) seems to be hesitating when considering marriage to his longtime boyfriend...
Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 3:00PM by Jason Adams
"Out of my hair and into my home, to enter you must lick the ice cream cone," is how one character greets another in the trippy and lovingly strange Strawberry Mansion from writer-directors Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney. That invitation gives y'all your gist -- if you wanna enter a movie that will bestow such a whimsical greeting upon you at the door then you're probably in the right place. And it only gets weirder once you've come in. It's up to you whether you're willing to let the Strawberry wash over you. Me, I was mostly tickled. Pinkish, you know...
