Whether you want something funny, dark, inspiring, or deeply weird, we've got a pick for you.

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The 2026 Sundance Film Festival featured a diverse selection of films, with reviewers highlighting five standout titles. These include the comedic 'Mom, I'm Alien Pregnant' from New Zealand's Thunderlips, the inspiring documentary 'Everybody to Kenmare Street' about a Scottish act of civil activism, and 'Run Amok,' a dark comedy exploring trauma and the healing power of art. 

Other notable selections are 'The Incomer,' a broad comedy about siblings on a desert island, and 'Josephine,' a sensitive drama about a child's experience witnessing trauma and her family's response. The reviewer praised these films for their ability to balance humor, catharsis, and meaningful storytelling, emphasizing the communal experience of cinema even when viewed online.

The 5 best films we saw at Sundance 2026

we want to talk to you about the best stuff we saw at Sundance. We weren't there in person, but we hit it on the online, so let's get into it. Number five. Mom, I'm alien pregnant. It's about a slacker who accidentally gets pregnant with a alien child, and she doesn't want it. It's from the writing directing team out of New Zealand called Thunderlips, and I feel like you're in or you're not, right? I feel like too often lately we're getting like pitched crazy concepts for movies, and then the movie's not as crazy as we want them to be. Like, you know, Anaconda. But Mom, I'm alien pregnant, man. It makes that promise, and it goes there. Like at moments I was like, are they gonna show the alien genitalia? Yeah, they are. They're gonna show the alien genitalia. But it's actually a really funny movie about like motherhood. There's a mother-daughter bond as she tries to figure out what's going on with like her body with her own mother. It's also about bodily autonomy, but it managed to do all these things in a deeply silly story that just kept making me go, wait, what now? Number four for me, very different energy, is Everybody to Kenmare Street. This is a documentary, and it's about something that happened in 2021 in Scotland where their like immigration task force descended on a neighborhood and grabbed two men who were on their way to a mosque for a high holiday, and a man walking down the street who knew neither of the other men saw what was happening and got under the van and wrapped himself around the axle so they couldn't drive away. That allowed time for the neighbors to come out and see what was going on and everybody, it was, it's the biggest act of civil activism that Scotland had seen in a very long time, and it's a very inspiring movie about what it means to be a neighbor and what it means to, you know, help your neighbor. And it was a movie that made me feel a lot of hope. If you are looking for something that can restore your faith in humanity, this is a pretty good movie for that, honestly, so look for it. Number three for me is Run Amok, which is a much sweeter but still very dark comedy about a nerdy high school girl who is trying to make sense of the school shooting that took her mother's life 10 years before by creating a public performance. Her thought process is that she's learned in class that like art can be a place for group catharsis, and so she genuinely earnestly wants to create something that everyone can help process this thing that happened to them. And maybe she, who was really little when this happened, can better understand what happened to her and what happened to her mom. And it's very sweet and it sounds like it would be really tear-jerky, but it's not because it focuses on this deeply nerdy girl and her cousin who's a little bit cooler than her and them reconnecting through art, but then there's a conflict because what these teenagers decide is how they can best express how they feel about what happened is not in line with how grown-ups feel they should be processing it. It actually becomes a really incredible story about how we need art to process the things that are hard, and whether it's something we're making ourselves or something we're witnessing, it can give us the space to act out those emotions that maybe your day-to-day life just doesn't feel like it's going to give you room for. And I really, really love that about Run Amok. That kind of ties into number two, another story about trauma and storytelling, The Incomer. This one is the broadest comedy I watched, and the one that, while still dealing with dark subject matter, was definitely the silliest. It is about two siblings who, when they were children, were left alone on a desert island by their parents. Not a great situation, but they were tasked with surviving on the island and keeping away incomers. And so when Donal Gleeson shows up as a pencil pusher who really likes Lord of the Rings and wizards, they try to chase him off with weaponry, like blunt objects, and dressing as birds, and like, you had me there, I'm in, I'm interested. But it becomes this really interesting story about the stories we tell ourselves, there's a lot of lore, there's animated sequences to explain who these people think they are and why they believe they need to stay on the island. And then it becomes a thing about culture clash, where they come from the smallest community you can have, being two people, and they're being told like, oh you have to come to the mainland, like you have to come to the mainland, and what if that's not what they want? It becomes a really interesting comedy about relationships and about growing and learning and experiencing new things, and I thought it was really funny while also being really sweet. And if you've ever wanted to see Donal Gleeson reenact parts of Lord of the Rings, good news guys, this is your moment. Last but certainly not least is Josephine, which is the movie you're going to hear probably the most buzz about out of the festival. And I will say this, it's an intense one. It is about a little girl, I think she's eight, and she witnesses a sexual assault while she is out playing with her dad in the park. And it becomes about how does she cope with this, how do her parents cope with this. It's a really riveting story, the filmmaker really gives space to this child protagonist to try to work through what they're going through. I think for anybody who pays attention to child development or even is just around kids, you'll recognize some of these things. And what is interesting is the film does such a brilliant job of showing how she's processing this and how she's trying to get through it. Her name is obviously Josephine, but also how her dad has to confront rape culture in a way he's never had to before. Because while his daughter was not physically harmed, he feels he's failed to protect her, and he would do anything to make that better. But what does that look like? What is the roadmap to that? Because even if there are experts saying it's this and this and this, maybe you're like, this is my child, you don't know my child. And that's very much what Josephine is about. And I will say this, did I cry? Absolutely. But I'm not really going to call this a tearjerker because while it is a tearful movie, it's not like reaching for that. I think it is a piece of fiction that gives you the space to put those feelings and to feel not just like where have you felt threatened? Where did you all of a sudden become disillusioned and realize maybe the world isn't as safe as you wanted it to be? Where was the moment where your kids all of a sudden realized where the world's not as safe as you want it to be? But also like, what about those times you wished you could do more to fix it? And I think this film does a really beautiful job of telling that story. And I just think that's why we go to the movies, man. We go for the catharsis. We go for the community. And even though I watched all of these at home through Sundance Online, I felt a part of a community because that's what these films are about. That's the best stuff I saw at Sundance. What did you like best? Let us know.

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