7 Movies We Loved at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Questions about the future hung in the frigid January air last week at Park City, Utah, during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (which ended over the weekend). There was the usual hand-wringing about a lack of commercially minded movies on the slate, and a dearth of big sales. And there were more existential questions as well. Would the festival continue to be held in Park City at all? The nonprofit institute that has organized this starry event in this small mountain town had declared that it was looking at alternative locations to ease congestion and crowding. The contender cities? Salt Lake City, Boulder, Colorado, and Cincinnati. That shortlist provided constant fodder for conversation, and threatened to overwhelm the typical amiable pre-screening chatter about the actual program of fil...