Omaha review – John Magaro leads lean but affecting family drama (opens in new tab)

Sundance film festival: The Past Lives and September 5 actor leads a beautifully made, if slightly too withholding, road-trip dramaOmaha, Cole Webley’s debut film from a screenplay by Robert Machoian (The Killing of Two Lovers), is very much a product of the Sundance film festival, both literally – the duo first connected here – and, for better and occasionally for worse, in tone. Spare, elegiac, quiet but affecting, this John Magaro-led character study is, fittingly, filmed and mostly set in...