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3 must-see movies from this year's Sundance Film Festival

Film critic Jason Gorber shares highlights from this year's Sundance Film Festival.
What are the movies worth seeing at this year's Sundance film festival?

Film critic Jason Gorber joins Shad to discuss three films from this year's Sundance Film Festival that are definitely worth a watch. 

  • Swiss Army Man — "The Citizen Kane of fart joke movies." A buddy film starring a sympathetic Paul Dano, featuring Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe ... as a flatulent corpse. Gorber says this is a love or hate film, but you'll know within the first few minutes if you're in or out. 
     
  • The Birth of a Nation — Gorber says the thirst for subversive historical epics has helped lift this highly-anticipated film. By African-Americans about African-Americans, it takes a familiar story and tells it from a different angle. The Sundance audience gave the film a standing ovation before it began, and another after the credits. 
     
  • Operation Avalanche — "How did they get away with this?" Gorber describes an impressive film by a young Canadian filmmaker, Matthew Johnson, and why he consciously decided not to debut his film in Canada.