In 2014, it gave us ‘Boyhood’, and last year ‘Brooklyn’. This year’s Sundance Film Festival is shaping up to be a winner – packed with indie gems that will be trickling into our cinemas over the next 12 months. Kenneth Lonergan's mighty grief drama ‘Manchester by the Sea’ pummelled audiences in wintery Utah (and we’ll eat our snow-boots if it doesn’t top film critics’ best-of-2016 lists). Elsewhere, indie auteurs unveiled their strongest work in decades. Here are the five movies we've loved so far (with more to come over the next week).
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