• In The New York Times, Michael Cieply warns of heart-tugging: "If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year."
• Daily Variety's Todd McCarthy notes "a noticeable generational shift" and quotes festival director Geoffrey Gilmore, who says the lineup shows "an awareness of the world that wasn’t there a dozen years ago. It comes from the Internet, from a realization that America is not cut off from the rest of the world."
• Anthony Breznican at USA Today opines: "The comedies are dark, and the dramas are even darker."
• Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere trumpets three documentaries that intrigue him: "When You're Strange," "The September Issue" and "William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe."
• Cinematical's Erik Davis picks as his highlights: "Art & Copy," "Good Hair," "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," "Paper Heart," "Cold Souls" and "An Education."
• Karina Longworth at Spout.blog is hot for "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," "Paper Heart," "We Live in Public," "Humpday," "Arlen Faber" (a k a "The Dream of the Romans"), "The September Issue," "Reporter," "Art & Copy," "Good Hair," "An Education," "Five Minutes in Heaven" and "A French Gigolo."
• The sci-fi blog io9 notes that the slate "includes two science fiction heavy hitters. One features a soul-stealing inventor (Paul Giamatti) and the other is a Japanese flick about cloning a lost astronaut." (Those would be "Cold Souls" and "The Clone Returns.")

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