I’m not at the Sundance festival, but I’ve had the pleasure and the privilege to see three films that premièred there in the past few days. They are all major cinematic events, each in their own way, but they share a crucial artistic trait. All three tell good stories in distinctive way, but, for each of the three filmmakers, the stories are a way to approach bigger game—the very definition of the inner life and the way that the cinema tries to get at it, make sense of it, and transform it…

Richard Brody on three excellent films that have premiered at Sundance in the past few days: http://nyr.kr/10xIron