Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Sundance 2023: 'A Thousand and One' Review


Writer-director A.V. Rockwell makes her feature debut with this story of a mother and young son struggling to get out of poverty in New York City in the 1990s and early 2000s. What's strongest about A Thousand and One is its modesty, its refusal to let the film succumb to sentimentality. (It also helps that Teyana Taylor is quite good as the mom.) You can read my review here.