SUNDANCE 2025: Sorry, Baby (2025)

One of the best of Sundance 2025 - Sorry, Baby has comedian Eva Victor creating a Kenneth Lonergan-Esque dramedy, about a serious incident and the process of moving forward in flashbacks with impressive subversion towards it’s serious subject matter. With her outsider humor and point blank partially comedic acting style, Sorry, Baby somehow deals with sexual assault within colleges by the hands of professors, and how colleges handle these situations, as well the affects on the victims, while remaining heartwarming, funny and realistic, under a mostly grey backdrop through the lens of a post grad school, alienated person. 10/10.

- Maurice Jones

SUNDANCE 2025: Bubble & Squeak (2025)

One of the funniest of Sundance 2025 - Almost like the film Yorgos Lanthimos didn’t direct, Bubble & Squeak is a fun and extremely funny absurdist comedy that has a twee soul about the urgency of a fascist situation that puts pressure on a relationship, bringing out the worst and best in two people leading to a turning point of forever companionship or divergence. Bubble & Squeak touches upon when a partner makes you do something you don’t want to, but you do anyways because you love them, and the moments of a trip with a partner, that makes you notice sides of them that you both don’t and do appreciate.

An absurdist fantasy tale, with great comedy moments from Dave Franco, Hamish Patel, Matt Berry and Sarah Goldberg that bring a warm feeling within a comedically violent fictional world. 9/10.

- Maurice Jones

SUNDANCE 2025: Atropia (2025)

 

One of the most mixed of Sundance 2025 - Atropia is a very funny satire about the clashing of Hollywood and political war, with a perfect role for the charming and always funny lead actor Ali Shawkat, as well as featuring a very funny supporting cast of who’s who, but unfortunately Atropia struggles to juggle the comedy and the seriousness of its subject matter and back drop, creating an experience that doesn’t feel complete as a comedy, with characters that feel unfinished and unsatisfactory, and a romantic subplot that doesn’t earn its meaningfulness. Atropia is half good, but once the love interest is injected things get confusingly whacky and therefore uninteresting, and the film wastes Jane Levy.  5/10.

- Maurice Jones