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The 16 Best Movies of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
It was a slow Sundance in terms of sales, but Variety's critics still found movies to inspire them as to the artistic health of the indie film scene.
Image Credit: Alistair Heap Tim Key affably plays a two-time lottery winner who would do anything to bring together his favorite band, McGwyer-Mortimer, a folksy duo who have long since split up, both as musical and romantic partners — including spending a good chunk of his winnings on a private concert. Image Credit: Sundance Film Festival Ira Sachs’ magical time capsule of a movie consists entirely of Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), the noted New York photographer of the 1970s and ’80s, having a rambling conversation with his friend, Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which he recounts everything he did the day before. Image Credit: Sundance Film Festival Stephan James, with a pensive baby face and a moodiness torn from the depths, plays Ricky, a young man from East Hartford, Connecticut, who has just gotten out of prison (after spending half his 30 years there) and is struggling to find his way in a world that seems booby-trapped.
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