Day: December 27, 2018

At the end of the year, as we celebrate the best of the past 12 months, it’s good to remember just how much we loved in cinema came out of the first month’s granddaddy of independent film fests, Sundance. This January, we saw the premieres of Bo Burnham’s big-screen directorial debut, Eighth Grade, as well as the surreal satire from Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You. 2018 Sundance also debuted David Wain’s National Lampoon biopic of Doug Kenney, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Jason Reitman’s Tully, and Jason Mantzoukas’s first starring vehicle, The Long Dumb Road. That’s not to...