3 must-see movies from this year's Sundance Film Festival
Film critic Jason Gorber shares highlights from this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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Film critic Jason Gorber joins Shad to discuss three films from this year's Sundance Film Festival that are definitely worth a watch.
- Swiss Army Man — "The Citizen Kane of fart joke movies." A buddy film starring a sympathetic Paul Dano, featuring Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe ... as a flatulent corpse. Gorber says this is a love or hate film, but you'll know within the first few minutes if you're in or out.
- The Birth of a Nation — Gorber says the thirst for subversive historical epics has helped lift this highly-anticipated film. By African-Americans about African-Americans, it takes a familiar story and tells it from a different angle. The Sundance audience gave the film a standing ovation before it began, and another after the credits.
- Operation Avalanche — "How did they get away with this?" Gorber describes an impressive film by a young Canadian filmmaker, Matthew Johnson, and why he consciously decided not to debut his film in Canada.