SUNDANCE DARLING

‘Sorry Baby’: Is This Going to Be the Best Movie of the Year?

The critics are buzzing!

If the buzz is to be believed, Sorry, Baby might be the best movie you see all year.

A24 just dropped the first trailer for Sorry, Baby, the Sundance Film Festival winner, which follows Agnes (Eva Victor), a young professor teaching at a small-town New England college. Three years ago, something horrible happened to Agnes, but for everyone else, life went on—a fact that she is reminded of when she receives a visit from Lydie (Naomi Ackie), an old friend from grad school.

“It’s a lot, right? Still being here,” Lydie asks Agnes in the trailer, as the two lie on some hay.

“Yeah, well, it’s a lot to be wherever,” Agnes replies in a not-so-convincing nonchalant tone.

Written and directed by Victor, the film stars Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, Lucas Hedges, and John Carroll Lynch. It premiered at Sundance to rave reviews and quickly became a standout at the festival, winning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in the U.S. dramatic competition category.

A review from The New Yorker dubbed it the “strongest movie” from the festival, writing that it’s “a quietly remarkable first feature written and directed by the actor Eva Victor, [who] gives a strikingly offbeat performance as the film’s protagonist, Agnes.”

Mashable also gushed over the film, calling it “bittersweet, brilliant, and heart-warmingly funny,” and saying, "Sorry, Baby is a movie that is sure to find an audience beyond Sundance.”

The reviews on social media from festival attendees were just as favorable.

The film is set to hit theaters on Jun. 27, hopefully showing everyone why exactly critics can’t stop talking about it.

Clare DonaldsonEditorial Intern

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