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Films with reviews are hotlinked in this list so it’ll act as a kind of table of contents for the site’s 2025 film reviews.

I’ve selected my ten online films for Sundance 2025: How to Build a Library; Ricky; 2000 Meters to Andriivka; Didn’t Die; The Perfect Neighbor; Love, Brooklyn; Omaha; Khartoum; Zodiac Killer Project; and The Things You Kill. (Click here to see their program.)

Beyond these, I’ll be screening Mr. Nobody Against Putin and Speak for students at my day job, and I anticipate (through the free local lens screening program) seeing Sally as well. My family also has the short films pass, so I’ll be watching most or all of those.

In person, I am targeting Together, Rabbit Trap, Opus, The Librarians, and Rebuilding. We’ll see what happens there with individual tickets and waitlists. (I speculated about the horror films in this year’s festival in a bluesky post last month.)

Update: I’ve got in-person tickets for The Librarians, Rabbit Trap, The Thing With Feathers, Opus, and Together.

So it’ll be 13 feature-length films online and five in person, along with all the shorts… unless I fall over in exhaustion (I’m still working my day job, of course).

One of these years, I’ll need to get a festival pass of some sort. I tried for a locals pass this time, but it was sold out. This is my 17th year seeing Sundance movies, and I always want to see way more films than I have the time or money to see.

If you’re seeing some Sundance movies this year, tell me what you’re excited to see. I’ll be reviewing as many of these as I’m able.

You can find ALL of my Sundance film festival lists at Letterboxd here.