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The 15 Best Movies We Saw This Year at Sundance
This year’s slate actually felt like Sundance, like the festival it used to be before it became just another stop on Hollywood’s eternal red carpet.
When Mats Steen died of an incurable progressive muscle disease at the age of 25 in 2014, his parents assumed that their dear son, having spent the past decade playing video games from a wheelchair in the basement of their Oslo home as his body grew weaker, had missed out on pretty much all of life. Didi is a 2008 period piece starring the very loveable Izaac Wang as Chris, a Taiwanese-American 13-year-old spending the summer before high school in his Bay Area suburb filming skate tricks on a digital camera, texting his crush on a Motorola Razr, and desperately, agonizingly trying to fit in with others and feel comfortable in his own skin … with sometimes funny, sometimes ruinous results. I Saw the TV Glow, which just premiered at Sundance, will be released by A24 and is a much sleeker production with familiar actors, cameos from Phoebe Bridgers and Buffy ’s Amber Benson, and a lush suburban-gothic aesthetic that periodically gives way to a pitch-perfect lower-resolution recreation of a ’90s television series.
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