Rye Lane (Raine Allen-Miller, 2023)
It's time for rom-com best of all time list to make room for a new film. Notting Hill, The Big Sick, Amelie, Crazy Rich Asians, Harold and Maude, and When Harry Met Sally...enter Rye Lane.
Instantly rewatchable, Rye Lane depicts a day in the life (and more) of Dom (David Jonsson) and Yas (Vivian Oparah) who come together by chance after each of them experience breakups separately. It's fast and funny with scenes that you want to tell your friends about if they haven't seen it yet. And the script is top notch: why say you're ignoring something when you can say you're snoozing through your alarm clock--or something like that! I'm messing it up. It's so good. Go see it.
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And really briefly: the performance of Inez (Teyana Taylor) in A Thousand and One directed by A.V. Rockwell is jaw dropping; meanwhile, the kid-friendly Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out turns on every dime, just as you'd expect, with joy and ebullience.
Director Roger Ross Williams introducing Cassandro at Sundance
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