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Film reviews: THE WEIGHT; AMERICAN DOCTOR
Two features from Sundance 2026 deal with survival in inhospitable places.
Vertical Entertainment The Weight ***1/2 We sometimes overthink what it is that makes a narrative compelling, whether that narrative is in a book, on a theater stage, on a TV screen or in a movie theater. The fundamentals of storytelling haven’t changed all that much in the thousands of years since humans turned perilous hunts into cave paintings: give a protagonist a clearly-defined goal, place a bunch of obstacles in that protagonist’s way and guide us deftly toward the resolution.
Everything else is a fringe benefit. The Weight provides solid evidence for that principle, as director Padraic…
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