Festival Central - Sundance Film Festival

A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy
Pic is a worldly, knowing look at adult affairs, and could do famously in urban centers, at festivals and on enlightened cable outlets....

Mancora
"Mancora" charts an emotionally and sexually eventful road trip by two guys and a girl from a big city to a beach. ...

The Women of Brukman
Turkish Canadian docmaker Isaac Isitan's "The Women of Brukman" stands as the most explicitly anticapitalist film at Sundance 2008. ...

Dog Eat Dog
Testosterone is thick as paste in "Dog Eat Dog," a slice of slick trash about bad guys pitched against each other, from Colombian co-writer-director and musicvi...

The Wind and the Water
Part of a trend in collectively made Latin American films, "The Wind and the Water" is an unusual work hatched by young Panamanians inside and outside the count...

Incendiary
"Incendiary" aspires to so much it ends up being less than the sum of its parts -- one of which is a terrific performance by Michelle Williams. ...

Be Like Others
Tanaz Eshaghian effortlessly shifts from her lively autobiographical docs to the tougher conditions of a Tehran sex-change clinic in "Be Like Others." ...

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
If it's hard to believe such a cannily comic first feature could come from as dim a wit as Waitt portrays himself, any manipulation here pays off. ...

Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North
A courageous scab-ripper of a tale about slavery, white privilege and original sin....

Adventures of Power
A New Mexico outcast thrashes his way to the bigtime in an absurdist underdog yarn that feels positively Martian....

Smart People
Dysfunctional family seriocomedy is well cast, but characters and conflicts lack the sharper definition of similar recent exercises....

Yasukuni
The hot-button issues of Japanese war remembrance and militarism are at the heart of "Yasukuni."...

Absurdistan
Veit Helmer's latest is a delightful fable sans dialogue, like his well-traveled debut "Tuvalu." ...

Birds of America
Yet another dysfunctional-family dramedy, "Birds of America" doesn't distinguish itself enough in mildly diverting character or incident to take flight. Matthew...

Recycle
The conditions that breed terrorists are observed through the prism of one weary ex-mujahadeen in "Recycle."...

Half-Life
Pic is an "Asian-American Beauty" set against a backdrop of global decay and illuminated by splashes of "Waking Life"-style animation. ...

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
So larger-than-life that he eventually felt overshadowed by his own mythos, Hunter S. Thompson gets definitive docu treatment in "Gonzo."...

Pretty Bird
The darker side of the American spirit of invention weighs on actor-turned-helmer Paul Schneider's "Pretty Bird," an overly calculated cautionary tale. A witles...

Durakovo: Village of Fools
Though it won a surprise Sundance directing award, Nino Kirtadze's docu "Durakovo: Village of Fools" offers just partial insight into a quaintly preserved rural...

The Year of Getting to Know Us
A mere plot summary tells you everything you need to know about "The Year of Getting to Know Us," an anemic grab-bag of Sundance cliches. ...