This page is home to our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival.
The Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the United States, taking place every year in January in Park City, Utah. It was founded in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival and re-named the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, after Robert Redford’s character from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Film School Reject has had the honor of covering Sundance since 2008, two years after our site was founded. Over the years, we’ve discovered a number of amazing films in Park City — from our first review of 2008’s In Bruges to our listing of the 25 Best Sundance Movies of All-Time in 2015 to our 2019 list of the 50 Best Sundance Horror Movie Premieres to our discoveries of Swiss Army Man and Hunt for the Wilderpeople and The Witch at Sundance 2016 — we’ve spent over a decade reviewing hundreds of wonderful independent films.
We have also covered (on numerous occasions) what it’s like to cover Sundance for those who aren’t lucky enough to make the trip. And for those interested in filling their yearly watchlists, we’ve also recapped our favorites with a festival-closing list (in almost every year). Check out our archive of Sundance favorites via the links below:
Explore the entire archives of our annual Sundance Film Festival coverage below:
By Matt Hoffman
The Chilean provocateur discusses his film on white boy partying and small acts of racism.
By Neil Miller
Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning are an oddly sweet pair in Reed Morano’s melancholy tale about facing down the end of humanity.
By Rob Hunter
Not all vacations are created equal.
By Neil Miller
You may not yet know it, but a re-telling of ‘Hamlet’ from Ophelia’s point of view is exactly what this world needs.
By Matt Hoffman
Bart Layton expertly explores truth claims in this work of “hybrid-fiction.”
By Rob Hunter
When the Great Recession hits, one man hits back… at all the wrong targets.
By Rob Hunter
It’s exactly what you expect from the director of ‘Beyond the Black Rainbow’… and exactly what you want from the star of ‘The Wicker Man’ remake.
