15 movies to watch (and watch for) at Sundance 2022
A Princess Diana documentary, a Kanye West epic, and Lena Dunham's latest are among our most anticipated of the festival
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Often, the best movies to emerge from Sundance come flying out of left field: Though we’d never forget Boyhood or Manchester By The Sea, both from decidedly well-known directors who decided to debut their latest masterpieces in Park City, the festival is arguably more reliable as a ground zero for new talent. (Last year, for example, our favorite film of the fest was a microbudget breakthrough.) Nonetheless, each year it’s impossible not to try to handicap this sprawling field of premieres and identify in advance the ones that might become our new obsession, the new reason to look forward to this annual pilgrimage to Utah (or, last year and this new one, a virtual simulacrum of the ski town that Robert Redford calls home).
Keep reading for our list of 15 movies from the 2022 virtual Sundance that we can’t wait to see. And if you hurry, you might be able to see them, too: With the festival going fully remote again tonight, anyone in the States can purchase a ticket, at least until these virtual screenings sell out.
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I had the opportunity to watch an advance online screening of Master (though missing post-production work) but I got bored quickly and turned it off. Very different from watching a screening in a theater.
What’s the difference between watching and “watching for) a movie?
My schedule includes After Yang, mentioned here, and two others that aren’t mentioned: Dual, from the director of The Art of Self-Defense, which I really liked, and You Won’t Be Alone, which just sounds like a good time for the plot description. Really wanted to see Cha Cha Real Slow despite the awful title and my hate for that song, but it didn’t work with my work schedule.
That Kanye doc has too many parts. If they removed three, I might be interested.