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This year’s Sundance Film Festival was more muted than usual. Here’s why

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The sentiment on the ground at this year ’s Sundance Film Festival was that something was off.

The festival did premiere a few movies that could forge a circuitous path toward the attention of awards-giving bodies, if given the right roll-out.

Netflix just acquired this decades -spanning period drama for a sum said to be in the "high-teens millions ".

Four of the films currently nominated for the best documentary Oscar premiered at Sundance last year , yet another indicator that Sundance is perhaps the world’s best launchpad for non-fiction films.

The Perfect Neighbor assembles heaps of body cam footage to tell a bleak and bitterly sad story about armed, paranoid, racist America . Mr. Nobody vs. Putin is a profile of a brave schoolteacher standing up to an oppressive government. To Catch a Predator is a damning look at the compassionless mechanics behind the grimmest prank show.

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