Arts & Culture
Sundance Film Festival 2025: The Best and Worst of Fest
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While 2025 marked one of the Sundance Festival’s final years in Park City, Utah, it was also my first time attending the festival. Sundance is in something of a transitional period, as organizers decide whether to make the move to Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati. Alternatively, they may keep the festival nearby in Salt Lake City. Even in this state of limbo, Sundance still had plenty to offer, including 88 films, multiple episodic works and numerous talks and panels, all open to the public.
Among the 15 films I was able to see during my week in Utah, a few stood out. First was Plainclothes, directed by Carmen Emmi, a romantic thriller starring Tom Blyth as a closeted undercover police officer tasked with arresting gay men.