‘They don’t want you to see the slave labor’: a new film goes inside Alabama’s prisons
New documentary The Alabama Solution exposes rampant state violence and inhumane conditions inside prisons
Magic Farm review – Chloë Sevigny can’t lift flat comedy of inept Americans abroad
A farcical tale of entitled New Yorkers arriving in rural Argentina to make a docuseries is too limp and underbaked to hit its targets
‘A reminder that we can resist’: hard-hitting documentary takes aim at anti-trans rhetoric
Heightened Scutiny is a new film premiering at Sundance looking at the troubling rise in anti-trans legislation and the mainstream media outlets who have helped stoke the fire
Atropia review – military roleplaying satire is a frustrating jumble of ideas
Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner are participants in an odd exercise in a debut feature that never figures out what it should be
Together review – codependent relationship body horror is a fun ride
Real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie play a couple put to the ultimate test in a slickly and sickly made thriller
Rebuilding review – Josh O’Connor is a stoic rancher in sensitive, if slight, wildfire drama
The actor delivers another impressive performance, recalling his other rural drama God’s Own Country, in a timely film about recovery
Zodiac Killer Project review – true crime critique rescues aborted documentary
Charlie Shackleton’s would-be film about the serial killer salvages success with this funny and insightful work
Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton stuns in meditative period drama
Sundance film festival: The actor gives a subtle and sensitive performance in a quiet, beautifully filmed drama set in early 20th-century America
‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries
A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance
Oh, Hi! review – promising romantic comedy takes awkward turn into farce
A couple’s weekend away turns into chaos when they find out they’re not on the same page, a clever concept that soon loses steam
Kiss of the Spider Woman review – Jennifer Lopez dazzles in unsteady musical
The star gives her all in Bill Condon’s uneven adaptation of the Broadway revision of a prison-set fantasy
To Catch a Predator: exploring the uneasy legacy of the controversial TV series
It turned undercover sting operations on alleged pedophiles into compelling reality television. A new film at the Sundance film festival asks: at what cost?
‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo
The Stringer, which premiered at Sundance, alleges that an incorrect credit was given for iconic ‘Napalm Girl’ picture
The Thing With Feathers review – Benedict Cumberbatch’s grief horror falls apart
A unaffecting adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella is perched awkwardly between fantasy and reality, failing to convince on either level
Sukkwan Island review – a survival drama takes an ill-advised left-turn
Anatomy Of A Fall’s Swann Arlaud plays a father who gets caught in a dangerous situation with his son in a well-made yet frustrating misfire