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From 'Leave No Trace' to 'RBG,' Times critics discuss their favorites of the Sundance Film Festival

Times film critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang sat down to share their highlights from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

KENNETH TURAN: Though it presents itself as a unified whole, Sundance is actually an unruly collection of individual feature films, some 110 this year, and everyone who comes, in effect, constructs his or her own festival out of the sum total of their choices. With Sundance 2018 winding down, what has your festival experience been? A good year, a bad year, somewhere in between?

JUSTIN CHANG: It's been a good year, though maybe not a banner one. I haven't seen anything here that's rocked my world quite the way that "Call Me by Your Name" or "Manchester by the Sea" did in their respective years, though as of this writing, I still have a few hopefuls I'm looking forward to.

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