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  Cat Person Turns a Compelling Story About the Perils of Modern Dating Into a Scrambled Mess

  Susanna Fogel's adaptation of the 2017 New Yorker story about the perils of dating takes everything admirable about its source material and spins it into an overloaded mess

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  Sundance Review: Susanna Fogel’s ‘Cat Person’ Starring Emilia Jones & Nicholas Braun

  Based on one of the most sensational and much-discussed short stories of recent times, which was heralded as the most-read story ever to appear in the New Yorker, Cat Person is a disarmingly creepy film with a disturbing edge that will surely trigger further discussion about contemporary dating and romantic protocols. Years ago, a little […]

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  Sundance: As 'Cat Person' ruins a viral sensation, 'Eileen' makes a stir of its own

  Our film critic considers two literary adaptations, of Kristen Roupenian's story and Ottessa Moshfegh's novel, that arrive at very different outcomes.

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  ‘Cat Person’ Devours Story’s Viral Discourse and Coughs Up an Unwatchable Hairball

  Courtesy of SundanceWhen Robert walks into a movie theater in a college town, Margot, who’s working the concession stand, clocks him as he approaches the register. He “looks like the best friend in an Apatow movie,” she texts her friend, Taylor, smiling at her cleverness. “So tall, dark, and…problematic?” Taylor replies.From the start, Cat Person is pleased with itself, telegraphing the obviousness of the broad, foreshadowing, and often patronizing supplemental material that the film adds, ruini

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  Sundance 2023 continues: Greta Lee and Anne Hathaway stun, while Little Richard gets the documentary treatment

  The back-and-better-than-ever Sundance Film Festival has featured almost too many indie stars to count in its opening days here in snowy Park City. Brooke Shields and Michael J. Fox were on hand to support their revealing documentaries, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. Fans crowded Gael García Bernal before his Roger Ross Williams film Cassandro, based on real-life luchador Saúl Armendáriz (who attended the premiere in gorgeous makeup and practically upstaged the st

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  Entertainment Weekly

  Cat Person review: Bad kitty

  The acclaimed short story becomes a disjointed romantic thriller that seems to miss the entire point of its source material.

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  Sundance 2023 dispatch: Indigo Girls, Emilia Clarke, and Jonathan Majors get things started

  Snow is falling gently on Park City, Utah, in the opening days of the Sundance Film Festival. The 2023 iteration of everyone’s favorite indie fest is a particularly special one, after online-only versions in 2021 and 2022. In person and virtually, The A.V. Club writers are among the attendees relieved the fest is back on track, schmoozing with fellow cinephiles and checking out as many screenings as possible—always a fool’s errand with so much exciting, innovative, buzzworthy filmmaking on hand.

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  ‘Fairyland’ Sundance Film Festival Review: Emilia Jones & Scoot McNairy In Touching Memoir Set Against San Francisco’s AIDS Epidemic

  Emilia Jones earned a lot of attention as the star of 2021’s big Sundance winner and eventual Best Picture Oscar winner CODA, and the praise should be continuing this year as she not only stars in Cat People but also Fairyland, which had its world premiere in Park City on Friday. Sofia Coppola serves as […]

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  Sundance Film Festival 2023: Opening highlights

  While the festival returns to in-person screenings in Park City, Utah, you can also attend virtually via online screenings of world premiere documentaries and narrative films. Here are some of the early highlights.

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  18 films we can't wait to see at Sundance 2023

  The Sundance Film Festival, more than any other event of its kind, is an incubator for exciting new talent. So while it’s certainly possible to make educated guesses about which titles will earn on-the-ground chatter, studio distribution, and even awards buzz, the Park City fest can always be relied upon to throw out-of-nowhere curveballs into the mix. We’re rounding up some of the premieres that belong on every cinephile’s radar, a mix of films from promising newcomers and established indie mae

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