Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s grotesque reworking of the Cinderella story creates a world where beauty is pain for some women, but life is ...

In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate for beauty.

Review: Emilie Blichfeldt's feminist body horror fairytale 'The Ugly Stepsister' isn't more than skin deep, but it's squeamish enough that way.

Director Emilie Blichfeldt puts the grim back in the Brothers Grimm with revolting close-ups of body modifications, maggots and moulting

Emilie Blichfeldt takes on medieval beauty standards in this gory reframing of the Brothers Grimm's classic take on Cinderella.

Imagine, if you will, if Cinderella wasn't so lovely.

And Jon Hamm is brilliant once again in “Your Friends and Neighbors.’

This deliciously nasty reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale imagines how far one of the stepsisters would go to marry her prince.

Blichfieldt's "burn it all down" approach creates turbulence and upset while walking over very well-trod ground.

On two of the crazier opening night premieres of this year's Sundance.

Yes, let’s have a “Cinderella” without the spin. Pound home the “princess” as beauty bias messaging with body horror driven by body dysphoria. And ...

The Cinderella fairytale is turned violently on its head in this gory Norwegian debut

“The Ugly Stepsister” just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Turns out beauty really is pain.

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The Ugly Stepsister opens in theaters on April 18. If the disheartening lac...

Emilie Blichfeldt's Sundance horror hit 'The Ugly Stepsister,' has body horror notes ala Coralie Fargeat's acclaimed 'The Substance.'

The Friend (15) 123mins ★★☆☆☆ THE tale of a reluctant owner falling in love with a problematic pooch has played out many times on the big screen. T...

This horror based on Cinderella features a scene so graphic our critic couldn’t watch it. The rest, though, is provocative and beguiling

Sundance 2025: Emilie Blichfeldt's feature debut "The Ugly Stepsister" is a grim and gruesome affair not for the faint of heart

Director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers unfair female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the fairy tale, presented here from the rival's perspective.

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.