Sundance Film Festival

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  Cop Car

  Review preview for Cop Car

  This is a tense and enjoyable genre picture, and one which gets terrific central performances from all involved.

  Two 10-year-old boys steal an abandoned police car.
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  Reckless

  Review preview for Reckless

  For an erotic thriller it's pretty short on both thrills and eroticism.

  A high flying lawyer develops a habit of using escort services, putting his marriage and career in danger.
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  Strangerland

  Review preview for Strangerland

  Kidman hasn't turned in a performance like this for some years.

  When two teenage children go missing in the desert, their parents' lives begin to unravel.
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  Take Me To The River

  Review preview for Take Me To The River

  A complex film where the real story unravels in the background.

  A teenager pressured into keeping his homosexuality a secret at a family gathering finds himself accused of assaulting a young girl.
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  Finders Keepers

  Review preview for Finders Keepers

  The film is a hodge-podge of archive clips and interview material but it just about gels and a host of smaller scale family stories round it out nicely.

  A documentary about the conflict that ensued after one man unwittingly purchased another man's amputated leg in an auction.
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  Meru

  Review preview for Meru

  Both Chin and Ozturk have professional filmmaking experience but even so, what they manage to capture is remarkable given the conditions.

  A documentary about the ascent of an unconquered mountain.
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  I Smile Back

  Review preview for I Smile Back

  The sort of film you'd expect to see in the lunchtime slot on True Entertainment, not in cinemas.

  All is not right in suburbia. Laney Brooks, a wife and mother on the edge, has stopped taking her meds, substituting recreational drugs and the wrong men. With the destruction of her family looming, Laney makes a last, desperate attempt at redemption.
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  Christmas, Again

  Review preview for Christmas, Again

  Poekel keeps things natural, letting Noel's sadness slowly permeate the atmosphere along with the scent of pine needles rather than ringing it out at high volume.

  A heartbroken Christmas tree salesman returns to New York, hoping to put the past year behind him.
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  James White

  Review preview for James White

  This film feels fresh and real even to those of us who have been there.

  A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behaviour in the face of momentous family challenges.
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  Racing Extinction

  Review preview for Racing Extinction

  It's as if we're being asked, once again, to believe that rock n' roll will really save the world.

  Documentary charts the problems of mass extinction.

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Features

• Aiming for the top
  Jimmy Chin on the Oscar shortlisted Meru.
• That shocking man
  Harold Takooshian on the real Stanley Milgram and Experimenter.
• Mountain highs
  Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi on the challenges of Mount Meru.
• Experimental thinking
  Michael Almereyda on Stanley Milgram and the making of Experimenter.
• Everything in its place
  Jim Strouse on actors, music, art, feminism and People Places Things.
• Get fresh
  Sacha Jenkins takes a good look at looking good with Fresh Dressed.
• Magic in the West
  Director John Maclean on fairy tales, magical realism and two-trick ponies in Slow West.
• Westward bound
  Kodi Smit-McPhee on love, murder, horses and Slow West.
• Go west, young man
  Ben Mendelsohn on playing the sinister stranger in Slow West.
• The contender, part 2
  Stevan Riley on the demons that shaped Marlon Brando.
• Public enemies
  Robert Gordon shares his perspective on William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal in Best Of Enemies.
• The contender, part 1
  Stevan Riley on Listen To Me Marlon and uncovering the real Mr Brando.
• Enemy mine
  Morgan Neville on William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal, Best Of Enemies.
• Celebrating survival
  Kim Loginotto and Brenda Myers-Powell talk about documentary Dreamcatcher
• Girl power hits the streets of Paris
  Céline Sciamma on sex, desire and friendship.
• Keeping score
  Composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans talk about their work on films including Enemy, Nasty Baby, The Wolfpack and Last Days In The Desert.
• Shaun The Sheep bar by baa
  Composer Ilan Eshkeri talks about scoring Aardman Animations' latest.
• A heavenly role
  Ewan McGregor and Rodrigo García on Last Days In The Desert.
• Nick Nolte on his Walk In The Woods
  Star talks about stunts and nature after his film's Sundance premiere.

News

• Sundance returns to London
  Dates and venue set for 2016.
• UK and Ireland celebrate at Sundance
  Slow West, The Russian Woodpecker, Dreamcatcher and Glassland among winners
• Sundance announces NHK Award
  French filmmaker Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre wins for debut Mustang.

Galleries

• Sundance 2015: US Documentary Competition in pictures
  Images from competing films.
• Sundance 2015: US Dramatic Competition in pictures
  Images from the 16 competing films.
• Sundance 2015: World Cinema Dramatic Competition in pictures
  Images from competing films.
• Sundance 2015: World Cinema Documentary Competition in pictures
  Images from the contending films.
• Sundance 2015: NEXT <=> in pictures
  Images from competing films.
• Sundance 2015: Premieres in pictures
  Stills from the world premiere strand of indies.