‘Josephine’ Review: An 8-Year-Old Girl Grapples With Matters Beyond Her Understanding in Beth de Araújo’s Shattering Sundance Drama

How Do You Talk About a Movie Like Josephine?

How do you talk about a movie like ‘Josephine’? Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, and a startling young newcomer give us one of Sundance’s most disturbing films.

'Josephine' Review: Beth de Araújo's Fearless Crime Drama Will Make Your Blood Boil – And It Should

If Beth de Araújo’s “Soft & Quiet” was a brass-knuckled jab, her follow-up, the 2026 Sundance premiere “Josephine,” is her title-winning haymaker. Fearlessness is Araújo’s superpower, evident in the filmmaker’s unflinching approach to confronting gut-wrenching topics. Here, she views the world’s cruelty through the eyes of an eight-year-old. We watch as a bubbly, bouncy little tyke grows frozen and jaded toward humanity, when she should be froli…

‘Josephine’ Review: An 8-Year-Old Girl Grapples With Matters Beyond Her Understanding in Beth de Araújo’s Shattering Sundance Drama

Gemma Chan and Channing Tatum play protective parents unsure how to explain harsh realities to their daughter in Beth de Araújo’s powerful indie drama.

Sundance 2026: Beth de Araújo's 'Josephine' is Awe-Inspiring Cinema

Wow wow wow. It's still January and I'm already ready to drop my first full on 10/10 perfect review because this film deserves it. One of the best films of 2026 just premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival taking place in Park City, Utah. Josephine is the REAL deal. I'm blown away by this film. Awe-inspiring filmmaking about a topic that is incredibly hard to talk about. But this film will be talked about for years. I'm not even sure where …

‘Josephine’ is the First “Sensation” of Sundance 2026 — Met With Raves

Every January, a handful of films (three or four) premiere in Park City and are instantly dubbed a “Sundance Sensation.” Some of these turn out to be the real deal; other times they don’t—the hype deflates by the time the film moves out of the Utah mountains and into theaters.Tonight, at Sundance’s famed Eccles Theatre—boy, am I going to miss that place—our first “sensation” screened: Beth de Araújo’s “Josephine.” This is Araújo’s sophomore effo…