A sexy gay cruising thriller, an all-too-timely drama about post-wildfire recovery and a shocking doc about U.S. prisons are among our critics’ faves from the fest.

Sundance is in crisis, but the best films that played this year suggest that crisis might be the engine of its renewal.

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