If you're wondering why the name Zola sounds familiar, there's a solid chance it's for a very unexpected reason. In 2015 a woman named Aziah Wells (by the nickname Zola) began a Twitter thread in one of the most shocking discussions found on social media. Zola shared a story about a horrible trip to Florida […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Great Hack goes on for way too long, but it's a large information dump about Cambridge Analytica and the world we live in where data is the most valuable resource. Director: Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim Summary: Have you ever filled out an online survey? Do you wonder why you receive ads […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Paradise Hills is one of the most visually beautiful movies of the festival, but the strange plot will make it extremely divisive. Director: Alice Waddington Summary: When Uma wakes up alone on a strange island called Paradise, she instantly suspects it's anything but. Helmed by the Duchess (Milla Jovovich), Paradise Hills is a […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile aims to put a new spin on one of the most famous serial killers of all time but loses focus in the latter half. Director: Joe Berlinger Summary: 1969. Ted (Zac Efron) is crazy-handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. And cautious single mother Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins) ultimately cannot […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Apollo 11 is a documentary in the truest form in that there is no narrator, just mission control, and a technological marvel that has to be seen to be believed. Director: Todd Douglas Miller Summary: NASA's vaults open for the first time to spill this exquisite, never-before seen audio and 70 mm film […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Leaving Neverland, a four hour brutal, graphic, and unflinching look at the terrible allegations made against Michael Jackson and the impact they made on the victims and their families. Director: Dan Reed Summary: As one of the world's most celebrated icons, Michael Jackson represents many things to many people—a pop star, a humanitarian, a […]
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley looks to examine how a company worth $9 billion dollars managed to completely flame out in a matter of years. Director: Alex Gibney Summary: Elizabeth Holmes arrived in Silicon Valley with a revolutionary medical invention. She called it "the Edison": a small, hyper-sophisticated black box that performed […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Search: overcomes what should have been a goofy premise to be legitimately thrilling and enjoyable. Director: Aneesh Chaganty Summary: After a five-minute sequence of the Kim family's online activity that beautifully relays a decade of their shared lives, Search drops us into the current online existence of family patriarch David and daughter Margot, […]
The Sundance Film Festival is getting ready to close out another year — that means it's time for awards. There are two types of awards that come out of Sundance: the jury awards, chosen by a group of filmmakers, actors, and the like; and the audience awards, where regular audience members are polled for their […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] I Think We're Alone Now takes the post-apocalyptic genre and looks at it from he eyes of someone who feels more at home in a world without people. Director: Reed Morano Summary: Del (Peter Dinklage) is alone in the world. Literally. After the human race is wiped out, he lives in a small, […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Minding the Gap looks at the lives of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois in an intimate and thought-provoking way that will hit like a punch to the gut. Director: Bing Liu Summary: Welcome to Rockford, Illinois, the heartland of the post-industrial rust belt of America. But more importantly, welcome to […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] White Fang is a beautifully animated telling of the classic story all of us read in grade school. Director: Alexandre Espigares Summary: Based on Jack London's classic novel White Fang, this contemporary adaptation is an adventure-filled tale that explores the relationship between humanity, nature, and the animal kingdom. Set during the Klondike Gold […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Ophelia takes one of the most misunderstood women in classic literature and gives her new dimensions as we look at the world through her eyes. Director: Claire McCarthy Summary: Something is rotten in medieval-era Denmark, where political intrigue swirls around the imperial court like dark magic. Amid it all, the queen's brightest lady-in-waiting, […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Assassination Nation takes the Salem witch trials to the modern age — but gives the "witches" in question automatic weapons with which to fight back. Director: Sam Levinson Summary: High school senior Lily and her crew of besties live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies, and chats—just like the rest of us. […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Seeing Allred aims to humanize one of the polarizing figures in recent memory by showing us where she came from and where she gets her drive. Directors: Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman Summaery: To some, Gloria Allred is a money-grubbing, shrill feminist prone to tawdry theatrics; to others she's the most effective and […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn appeals to a very specific set of fans of a very specific genre, and those fans are bound to love it. Everyone else likely won't get the joke. Director: Jim Hosking Summary: After getting fired by her scheming husband Shane Danger (Emile Hirsch) from his cappuccino shop, […]
A year ago men and women took to the streets of Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival to march down main street in protest as they feared the worst with the coming administration. It was cold and the snow kept many people locked in traffic but that didn't stop those 4000 people from […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Tale is a deeply personal and at times hard-to-watch story of a woman coming to terms with her own sexual assault as a child. Director: Jennifer Fox Summary: Jennifer, a globetrotting journalist and professor, lives an enviable life with her boyfriend in New York City. That is, until her mother finds a […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Bisbee '17 doesn't entirely work because of pacing issues, but watching a small town come to terms with its own dark past is fascinating. Director: Robert Greene Summary: It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border. The town's close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] American Animals starts off like a fun heist movie — until reality comes crashing down in a tonal shift that has no right to work as well as it does. Director: Bart Layton Summary: Lexington, Kentucky, 2004: Spencer and Warren dream of remarkable lives beyond their middle-class suburban existence. They head off to colleges […]
