Blackouts, fires, looting, escalating violence, a stuffy apartment, and Naomi Watts is right in the middle of it all in New York, 1977. A rare film appearing to revel in the isolation and paranoia of its protagonist, June Leigh, Watts delivers “a striking raw nerve performance” reminiscent of an unhinged James Stewart in “Rear Window.” (read our review here)

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“Everything a private moment, and who we are in private moments is very different from how we are in the world.

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Most years are kind to Naomi Watts, and 2019 is no real exception. The actress has been in the hit Sundance film “Luce,” and she was cast as the lead in one of HBO’s “Game Of Thrones” spin-offs, although you won’t see that one until 2020 at the earliest. But she’s also been in one more 2019 Sundance film that has gone a little bit more under the radar.

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“The Wolf Hour” begins with a big, tight close-up of Naomi Watts’ face, and proceeds with the same sense of scrutiny. She’s in every scene of this character study— in nearly every shot, in fact—and delivers a performance of such raw nerve, you understand how writer/director Alistair Banks Griffin figured he could hang the entire picture on it. That’s a big risk, and he almost pulls it off.

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If you, like everyone else on the planet, we’re hoping for a few days of respite following the announcement of the 2019 Academy Award nominations, given all the wtf omissions and snubs (no “Mr. Rogers” doc??), well, guess again. The Sundance Film Festival is upon us, it starts today and there is absolutely no rest for the wicked.

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Sundance is evolving as a platform.

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