Skip to content

Top Navigation

EW.com EW.com
    • All TV
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Reunions
    • Recaps
    • What to Watch
    • Animated
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Drama
    • Family
    • Horror
    • Reality
    • Sci-fi
    • Thriller
    • All Movies
    • Movie Reviews
    • Trailers
    • Film Festivals
    • Movie Reunions
    • Movie Previews
    • All Music
    • Music Reviews
    • All What to Watch
    • What to Watch Podcast Episodes
    • TV Reviews
    • Movie Reviews
    • All BINGE
    • EW's Binge Podcast Episodes
    • Recaps
    • Survivor
    • This is Us
    • RuPaul's Drag Race
    • Stranger Things
    • The Boys
    • The Blacklist
    • The Walking Dead
    • Better Call Saul
    • All The Awardist
    • The Awardist Podcast Episodes
    • Oscars
    • Emmys
    • Golden Globes
    • SAG Awards
    • Grammys
    • Tony Awards
    • All Books
    • Book Reviews
    • Author Interviews
    • All Theater
    • Theater Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • Gaming
    • All Events
    • Comic-Con
  • Celebrity
  • Streaming

Profile Menu

Your Profile

Account

  • Join Now
  • Email Preferences
  • Newsletter
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Logout
Login
Subscribe

Explore EW.com

EW.com EW.com
  • Explore

    Explore

    • Comic-Con 2022: Stars strike a pose in EW's photo studio

      Comic-Con 2022: Stars strike a pose in EW's photo studio

      From the casts of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever  and The Walking Dead  to Chris Pine and Regé Jean-Page, see who dropped by EW's Comic-Con headquarters at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. Read More
    • Power players: Inside The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

      Power players: Inside The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

      Go behind the scenes of Amazon Prime Video’s ambitious fantasy epic, which hopes to introduce J.R.R. Tolkien to a new generation. Read More
    • Biggest bombshells in unsealed Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard court docs: Erectile dysfunction, nude photos, and Marilyn Manson

      Biggest bombshells in unsealed Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard court docs: Erectile dysfunction, nude photos, and Marilyn Manson

      Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be more to learn about the high-profile defamation trial, more than 6,000 pages of court docs were released over the weekend. Read More
  • TV

    TV

    See All TV
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Reunions
    • Recaps
    • What to Watch
    • Animated
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Drama
    • Family
    • Horror
    • Reality
    • Sci-fi
    • Thriller
  • Movies

    Movies

    See All Movies
    • Movie Reviews
    • Trailers
    • Film Festivals
    • Movie Reunions
    • Movie Previews
  • Music

    Music

    See All Music
    • Music Reviews
  • What to Watch

    What to Watch

    See All What to Watch
    • What to Watch Podcast Episodes
    • TV Reviews
    • Movie Reviews
  • BINGE

    BINGE

    See All BINGE
    • EW's Binge Podcast Episodes
    • Recaps
    • Survivor
    • This is Us
    • RuPaul's Drag Race
    • Stranger Things
    • The Boys
    • The Blacklist
    • The Walking Dead
    • Better Call Saul
  • The Awardist

    The Awardist

    See All The Awardist
    • The Awardist Podcast Episodes
    • Oscars
    • Emmys
    • Golden Globes
    • SAG Awards
    • Grammys
    • Tony Awards
  • Books

    Books

    See All Books
    • Book Reviews
    • Author Interviews
  • Theater

    Theater

    See All Theater
    • Theater Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • Gaming
  • Events

    Events

    See All Events
    • Comic-Con
  • Celebrity
  • Streaming

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Profile

Account

  • Join Now
  • Email Preferences
  • Newsletter
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Logout
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Home
  2. Movies
  3. Sundance 2018: The 10 movies you need to see

Sundance 2018: The 10 movies you need to see

By Chris Nashawaty January 16, 2018 at 12:00 PM EST
Skip gallery slides
FB

1 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Sundance Must List

Sundance-must-list
Credit: Alex Bailey/Sundance; Dusan Martincek/Sundance; Adam Stone/Sundance; CNN Films/Sundance

It's time for Hollywood to get the parkas out of storage and head to the slopes of Park City, Utah, where a fresh crop of premieres are set to take over the town during the Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 18-28. Here's what we're dying to see.

1 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Blindspotting

Blindspotting - Parking Lot.JPG
Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Institute

How do you follow up something as career-changing as Hamilton? If you're Tony winner Daveed Diggs, you sit down and write (with Rafael Casal) a buddy comedy to star in about growing up in Oakland.

2 of 11

3 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

The Catcher Was A Spy

The Catcher Was A Spy - Still 2
Credit: Dusan Martincek/Sundance

Paul Rudd returns to Park City with the stranger-than-fiction true story of Moe Berg, a catcher for the Chicago White Sox who became a spy during World War II, helping the U.S. beat Germany in the race to build the A-bomb.

3 of 11

Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

4 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Damsel

Damsel - Still 1
Credit: Adam Stone/Sundance

Thanks to the Zellner brothers' last film, the mysterious Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, their follow-up — a slapstick Western starring Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska — is one of this year's most anticipated (and, hopefully, equally bizarre) premieres.

4 of 11

Advertisement

5 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT
Credit: Scott Patrick Green/Sundance

Will Gus Van Sant's latest be a down-the-middle pitch like Good Will Hunting or an unexpected curveball like Gerry? The marquee-flaunting title of this Joaquin Phoenix drama about a paralyzed cartoonist suggests the latter.

5 of 11

6 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Hal

Hal - Still 1
Credit: Sundance Insitute

Hal Ashby was one of the most colorful figures of the New Hollywood revolution. But despite making Harold and Maude, Shampoo, and The Last Detail, he never had the name recognition of Scorsese, Spielberg, and Coppola. Amy Scott's doc could right that wrong.

6 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

7 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Lizzie

Lizzie - Still 1
Credit: Sundance Institute

Chloë Sevigny has an ax (and gives 40 whacks) in this psychological thriller exploring the 19th-century case of Lizzie Borden and one of the most notorious murders in American history. Kristen Stewart costars as Lizzie's Irish housemaid and lover.

7 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement

8 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Monsters and Men

Monsters and Men - Still 1
Credit: Sundance Insitute

Kelvin Harrison Jr., the breakout from It Comes at Night, stars in this timely tragedy about the police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of a witness who filmed the act. Harrison appears in two other entries, the similarly titled Monster and Assassination Nation.

8 of 11

Advertisement

9 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Our New President

Our New President - Still 3
Credit: Sundance Institute

Sure to be one of the most provocative offerings of the festival, Maxim Pozdorovkin's fake-news hot potato tells the story of Donald Trump's election entirely through Russian media and bold-faced propaganda.

9 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

10 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

RBG

RBG - Still 3
Credit: CNN Films/Sundance

She's been a meme and injudiciously outspoken about Trump. Now Ruth Bader Ginsburg can add "documentary subject" to that list. Betsy West and Julie Cohen's peek behind the curtain at our spiciest Supreme Court Justice may be a crowd-pleaser.

10 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

11 of 11

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

Yardie

Yardie - Still 1
Credit: Alex Bailey/Sundance

Idris Elba put his day job on hold to make his feature-directing debut with this bullet-riddled, Jamaican/British gang-world epic adapted from a Victor Headley novel. The Maze Runner's Aml Ameen stars. The soundtrack is killer.

11 of 11

Advertisement
Advertisement
Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

By Chris Nashawaty

    Share the Gallery

    Pinterest Facebook
    Trending Videos
    Advertisement
    Skip slide summaries

    Everything in This Slideshow

    Advertisement

    View All

    1 of 11 Sundance Must List
    2 of 11 Blindspotting
    3 of 11 The Catcher Was A Spy
    4 of 11 Damsel
    5 of 11 Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot
    6 of 11 Hal
    7 of 11 Lizzie
    8 of 11 Monsters and Men
    9 of 11 Our New President
    10 of 11 RBG
    11 of 11 Yardie

    Share & More

    Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message
    EW.com

    Magazines & More

    Learn More

    • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
    • Advertise this link opens in a new tab
    • Content Licensing this link opens in a new tab
    • Accolades this link opens in a new tab

    Connect

    Subscribe to Our Newsletter
    Meredith© Copyright 2022 Meredith Corporation. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
    © Copyright EW.com. All rights reserved. Printed from https://ew.com

    View image

    Sundance 2018: The 10 movies you need to see
    this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.