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Stories of redemption, revelation and rebellion at Sundance 2022

My Top 10 films at the second virtual edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

Virtual Sundance finds real audience

Forced by the pandemic to head online, the Sundance Film Festival has turned necessity into virtue.

Movies I can't live without

Toronto Star movie critic Peter Howell has written a book about his 25 favourite movies, with highly personal reviews from Apocalypse Now to The Wizard of Oz.

Here's a sample of his review of 2001: A Space Odyssey, his all-time favourite film:

"It was billed as The Ultimate Trip and the hyperbole was justified, then as now.

Stanley Kubrick's space opus still seems like the future, 52 years after its release and 19 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings..."