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The Bride! was engrossing, unnerving and surprising - The SunBreak Long after her death, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) takes a lead role in the story of The Bride! Together with a bored, free-spirited, but troubled young woman (also Jessie Buckley) she intends to…

📽️ THE BRIDE! was engrossing, unnerving and surprising — Morgen says that Maggie Gyllenhaal has created something incredibly impressive with her imaginative take on the Frankenstein myth. Starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley, it's in theaters now.

Hoppers proves Pixar still hasn't run out of good ideas - The SunBreak Unsurprisingly the studio has come up with a creative, silly, and emotional way to broach a complex subject once again. It's not the first time they've laid their heavy hand on us about the…

📽️ HOPPERS proves Pixar still hasn’t run out of good ideas -- Morgen reviews Pixar's latest, about a girl who loves animals too much. See it in theaters this weekend!

Suburban Fury allows Sarah Jane Moore to make her own myth - The SunBreak One of the best entries in last year's SIFF Northwest Connections program is situated 800 miles south on I-5 and a half century in the past: the biography of Sarah Jane Moore, one of two women who…

In Robinson Devor's entrancing SUBURBAN FURY, Sarah Jane Moore spins her own myth in recounting a life that led to her firing a bullet in the general direction of Gerald Ford. One of the stronger entries from last year's SIFF festival, it plays @SIFFnews.bsky.social film center beginning tonight.

Pillion brings BDSM to the multiplex - The SunBreak Who could have possibly guessed that the squirmiest elements of watching a meek all-grown-up Dudley Dursley (Harry Melling) inadvertently stumble his way into a submissive arrangement with a godlike…

📽️ PILLION brings BDSM to the multiplex -- we were charmed by Harry Lighton's unconventional rom-com starring Harry Melling & Alexander Skarsgård at Telluride. It motors into Seattle theaters this weekend.

How to Make a Killing taps the breaks on the Glen Powell Experience - The SunBreak John Patton Ford taps Glen Powell to star in his loose re-imagining of a 1949 black comedy in which an outcast needs to eliminate everyone on the family tree ahead of him in the line of succession to…

📽️HOW TO MAKE A KILLING taps the breaks on the Glen Powell Experience -- The Glenaissance hits a speed bump in this frustratingly dull death march comedy of murders.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions explodes the documentary as visual album - The SunBreak Kahlil Joseph's multi-sensory film takes inspiration for W.E.B. Du Bois's dream -- unfinished at the time of his death, but realized decades later by a group of scholars led by Henry Louis Gates --…

Just noticed that Kahlil Joseph's outstanding visual album as documentary mixtape 📽️BLKNWS: TERMS AND CONDITIONS, one of the stars of last year's SIFF, is back in Seattle with some showings this weekend at Northwest Film Forum. Revisit it or see it for the first time on Saturday and Sunday.

Crime 101 strikes gold with Chris Hemsworth masterminding freeway robberies - The SunBreak Bart Layton’s newest crime thriller, Crime 101, has nearly everything going for it. A stacked cast led by Chris Hemsworth, beautiful cinematography from Erik Wilson, an intriguing story adapted from…

Catching up with last weekend's releases, Marina has a review of Bart Layton's latest, 📽️CRIME 101, which features Chris Hemsworth masterminding a series of Los Angeles freeway robberies. With supporting performances from Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry, the film is now in theaters.

Can Diner Customers Save the World in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die? Maybe... - The SunBreak Gore Verbinski's comic sci-fi adventure reignites the director's anarchic wit, even as it hits some surprisingly affecting emotional beats.

"Can Diner Customers Save the World in 📽️ GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE? Maybe…" -- Tony digs into Gore Verbinski's latest, finding the popcorn-friendly director at the top of his proverbial game. Now playing in Seattle theaters.

Similarly mind-blowing and uncategorizable, yet not in regular release beyond city-by-city one-off roadshows: Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. Leveraging decades of footage from the episodic work of Toronto comedy duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, its an ingenious deeply Canadian big-screen reinvention of Back to the Future, impossible stuntwork, prank show style incorporation of everyday people, and a riotously enjoyable movie to see with a crowd. I hadn’t seen a frame of their TV show and couldn’t stop laughing. Stay tuned for a 2026 release, you’ve got plenty of time to catch up on the series.

One of the best films of 2025 finally makes it across the northern border from Canada: NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE parachutes into Seattle theaters this weekend. Treat yourself and see it with a crowd!

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Even Doubting Dennis thinks the 5th Avenue Theatre's SPAMALOT is hysterical - The SunBreak Through this weekend, the Monty Python stage musical SPAMALOT can be seen at the 5th Avenue Theatre. It was uproariously funny. It is probably the funniest play I have ever seen, which includes The…

"Even Doubting Dennis thinks the 5th Avenue Theatre’s SPAMALOT is hysterical" -- Chris reviews the uproariously funny Monty Python production that's now playing at the 5th Avenue Theatre.

📽️ Wuthering Heights in bad decline -- Literary fidelity be damned, Chris finds a lot to admire in Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. Starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, it opens in theaters everywhere just in time for Valentine's Day.

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Brat Summer is Dead and The Moment is here to bury it. - The SunBreak In which the only rational response to sudden intense fame is to fictionalize a version even more absurd to find some glancing approximation of the honest truth.

Brat Summer is dead and THE MOMENT is here to bury it. After making an oddly divisive splash at Sundance (I love it / I don't care), the Charli XCX mockumentary arrives in Seattle this weekend, including at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Uptown.

The block of new online tickets -- limited to audience and grand jury awards -- can be found here and are disappearing quickly!

Sundance 2026: Award Winners and Online Screenings Announced - The SunBreak Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and -- beginning on January 29 -- online

Sundance announced its Award winners this morning -- Audience's loved JOSEPHINE, AMERICAN PACHUCO, ONE IN A MILLION, and HOLD ONTO ME; Juries also loved JOSEPHINE, NUISANCE BEAR, SHAME & MONEY, and TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN. Along with honors for filmmakers, awards mean more screenings for audiences!

The SunBreak at Sundance 2026: Short Reviews - The SunBreak Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and -- beginning on January 29 -- online. We'll be updating this journal with short reviews and reactions throughout the festival.

Sundance's awards announcements are rolling in and some of the best films from our in-person roundup have taken top prizes, bringing extra online ticket opportunities: Get your virtual seats for JOSEPHINE, NUISANCE BEAR, and TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN today.

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The SunBreak at Sundance 2026: Short Reviews - The SunBreak Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and -- beginning on January 29 -- online. We'll be updating this journal with short reviews and reactions throughout the festival.

As the first weekend of Sundance gives way to midweek screenings before going hybrid this weekend, we've updated our coverage with short reviews of films that premiered over the last few days.

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Sundance 2026 - Leviticus - The SunBreak The metaphors run hot and heavy in this down under horror story about the trauma of gay awakenings. Still, small abandoned conservative towns, spooky religion, and the overwhelming potency of teenage…

Sundance 2026 - LEVITICUS - The metaphors run hot and heavy in this down under horror story about the trauma of gay awakenings, but the overwhelming potency of teenage lust remains creepily effective tools when deployed this stylishly.

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Sundance 2026 - The Moment - The SunBreak In which the only rational response to sudden intense fame is to fictionalize a version even more absurd to find some glancing approximation of the honest truth.

Sundance 2026 - THE MOMENT: Charli XCX puts brat summer to bed, mockumentary style.

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Sundance 2026 - Hanging By A Wire - The SunBreak It takes a village of personalities to rescue eight passengers dangling nearly thousand perilous feet above a remote Pakistani valley in a cable car, and one action-styled documentary to make you…

📽️ HANGING BY A WIRE It takes a village of personalities to rescue eight passengers dangling nearly thousand perilous feet above a remote Pakistani valley in a cable. #sundance

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Sundance 2026 - The History of Concrete - The SunBreak John Wilson's first feature-length documentary could have been titled How To Make A Movie With John Wilson.

#Sundance 2026 - 📽️ THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE (or, How to Make a Movie with John Wilson) -- a brief review from last nights premiere

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The SunBreak at Sundance 2026 - The SunBreak Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and -- beginning on January 29 -- online

Sundance 2026 starts tomorrow and we're still hastily packing our bags and making our lists of must-see films for the festival's final edition in Utah. After kicking off in Park City and SLC, the festival moves online on January 29. Hit us up with hot tips, screening suggestions, and party invites!

All That's Left of You views generations of conflict through the lens of family. - The SunBreak Cherien Dabis traces one family's journey through pivotal time points: a businessman's expulsion from Jaffa an internment in a forced labor camp in 1948, his son's life as an idealistic teacher in a…

Shortlisted for this year's Oscar for Best International Film, Cherien Dabis's 📽️ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU plays this weekend in Seattle at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Film Center (courtesy of the @grandillusioncinema.org) and at the Beacon Cinema.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ups the chills and the gore - The SunBreak The second installment of the nascent 28 Years Later trilogy downplays character development but delivers on the visceral punch.

📽️28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE ups the chills and the gore -- Tony returns to Infected Island, for an entertaining sequel helmed by Nia DaCosta which shifts the spotlight to Jack O’Connell's charismatic but creepy cultist. In theaters this weekend.

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Tony's (very belated list of) Favorite Films of 2025 - The SunBreak Tony belatedly picks his favorite 2025 films, many of which--accidentally or not--mirror the timbre of the times.

Just under the wire! Tony weighs in with his favorite films of 2025!

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Marina's Favorite Films of 2025 - The SunBreak I’m cutting it up to the last wire with my list of the top ten movies from 2025, and I know that immediately after it’s published, I’m going to wish I could change my list. But despite the question…

We continue to reflect on the movies of 2025. Next up: SunBreak contributor Marina's favorite of last year.

Chris's Favorite Films of 2025 - The SunBreak As the year winds to a close, we're sharing lists of our favorite films we've seen (so far).

We continue to wring out 2025 and ring in 2025 with our favorites. Today Chris's reflects on movies that didn't feel compelled to announce their righteousness or that allowed for ambiguity and nuance.

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EOY Catch Up: The Testament of Ann Lee is more musical adventure than religious awakening - The SunBreak In this fascinating journey of one woman and her pivotal role in bringing the Shaker religion to the United States.

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is more musical adventure than religious awakening -- Morgen catches up with Amanda Seyfried's shaking Quaker.

Morgen's Favorite Films of 2025 - The SunBreak Late into the year I kept thinking to myself that I really hadn't been floored by any one film. In the past I had one or two that I held onto as I saw them and could at least say "Yes, this one will…

As 2025 draws to a close, Morgen shares her favorite movies of the year 📽️

I bring you good news of great joy which will come to all people; for to you is born this day in the city of cinema a dirtbag, who is Marty the Supreme.

Ann Lee Christmas Day 👯 Ann Lee Christmas Day 👯‍♀️ Ann Lee Christmas Day 👯‍♂️ ... another ambitious fanatic hits screens today in limited release.