Among the films I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival was the second feature film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. Humorous, heartfelt, emotionally honest and altogether moving, it was the best film I saw at the fest. It's called A Real Pain, which stars Eisenberg and newly-awarded Emmy winner Kieran Culkin as a pair of cousins who, following the death of their grandmother, travel…

I could not have prepared myself for the twist that comes midway through one of the most bizarrely made films I've ever seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The movie is called Little Death, and it follows a depressed, middle-aged screenwriter (played by David Schwimmer) living in LA whose midlife/artistic/existential crisis makes for a manic, disjointed experience. We see that he's a…

A Father-Daughter dance is a rite of passage for many young girls. I remember my first dance, a cowboy-themed event sponsored by my Brownie troop. I may have only been five or six years old, but that special memory has stuck with me all these years later. In co-directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton's touching documentary Daughters, four young girls reunite with their incarcerated fathers as…

It's a bird! It's a plane! Nope, it's two Russian influencers taking selfies on some of the highest buildings in the world. In Emmy and Peabody-winning filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist's stomach-churning documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story, human perseverance and ability are pushed to jaw-dropping heights. Premiering in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, Zimbalist follows…