If Kiyoshi Kurosawa Made ‘Skins,’ it Would Look a Lot Like ‘Burn’ [Sundance 2026 Review]

If Kiyoshi Kurosawa Made ‘Skins,’ it Would Look a Lot Like ‘Burn’ [Sundance 2026 Review]

January 29, 2026 Dread Central

Makoto Nagahisa’s Burn is a Sundance all-timer. It’s fitting that the film both opens and closes with Ju-Ju (Nana Mori) burning everything around her to the ground. This is the festival’s last year in Park City, Utah, and Burn closes this chapter of the seminal festival with a stunning, incendiary, haunting, and masterful mix of genres. It’s not to be...