“Good One” with Lily Collias as Sam Metrograph Images India Donaldson’s feature film debut Goods was selected for both Sundance and the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Goods is a quiet but powerful coming-of-age story about Sam, played by Lily Collias, a 17-year-old teenager who goes camping for a few days with her father Chris and […]
This review by Theda Hammels Stress positions was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance coverage. The two narrators in Theda Hammel’s debut film Stress positions Each of them speaks with the syntax of literary fiction. No one has told them that they are in a farce. Whether literally or figuratively, everyone in this […]
It cannot be that be a film that has more BDE (Brooklyn Dad Energy) than Goods — you’d have to go to a Park Slope bar at closing time with nothing but The National on the jukebox to find a more concentrated dose of paternal whimsy than in writer-director Indira Donaldson’s debut feature. The fact […]
