Sundance 2025

This year, The Michigan Daily flew three of our lovely film critics to Park City, Utah to cover the world’s largest independent film festival: Sundance 2025. From seeing Conan O’Brien at the famed Atticus Coffee & Teahouse to standing hours upon hours in press lines, we’re now ready to share the best and worst of Sundance 2025.

Film Beat Editor Ben Luu, Daily Arts Writer Will Cooper and Daily Arts Writer Isabelle Perraut can be reached at benllv@umich.edu, wcoop@umich.edu and iperraut@umich.edu respectively.

Dev Patel stands in a forest with a radio held to his ear.
Sundance 2025: ‘Rabbit Trap’ is all style, no substance
A dirty, disheveled man stands in a field.
Sundance 2025: ‘The Things You Kill’ oozes class
Two people sit in a neon-lit cityscape, face to face with a glowing holographic deer.
Sundance 2025: ‘Luz’ delivers a clear metaphor with clumsy messaging
A father and two kids sit in a beat up car. A dog sits in the backseat.
‘Omaha’ is the most Sundance movie I saw at Sundance 2025
A still shot of two men standing with green diamonds from Sims floating above their heads.
Sundance 2025: A twin review of ‘Twinless’
Josh O'Connor sits on a dusty front porch with a young girl.
Sundance 2025: ‘Rebuilding’ is one long, sad cowboy montage
A black and white shot of Sly Stone leaning towards the camera.
Sundance 2025: ‘Sly Lives!’ and the cost of being Black in America
Close-up shot of advertising creative André Ricciardi.
Sundance 2025: ‘André is an Idiot’ is a heartbreaking and hilarious doc
Alia Shakwat stares down the camera, face contorted in a scream.
Sundance 2025: ‘Atropia’ shines as one of the festival’s brightest
A sweaty, disheveled Rose Byrne lays flat on her back, staring blankly.
Sundance 2025: ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ might be one of the year’s biggest hits
A frazzled couple sits at a dinner table with plates of stew in front of them,
Sundance 2025: ‘Bubble & Squeak’ is a bad Wes Anderson impression