(The Denver Post; 21 January 2003)-- This year's Sundance Film Festival, entering its sixth day, has been an unusual one. The stars are out in Park City, and rumors and gossip abound about what celebrities may yet show up at Sundance - such as Bob Dylan, rocker Beck and former President Clinton. On the one hand, it's the most exciting and vibrant festival I've covered since 1997. Screenings are sold out with long waiting lines, Main Street is crowded late into the evening like Times Square, and stars such as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Holly Hunter, Robin Wright Penn and even Macaulay Culkin are out and about. One of my favorites so far is "Party Monster," Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's stylized, Warhol-influenced look at the drug-fueled, narcissistic Manhattan club scene of the 1980s. Macaulay Culkin plays Michael Alig, who (we are told) staged parties for those with "weird clothes, wild makeup and no particular sexual persuasion" until he was arrested for the murder of his lover.

Seth Green ("Austin Powers") masterfully plays his catty, self-referential friend James St. James, who wears the most fantastical costumes seen onscreen since "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." The real St. James, at Sundance with the movie, commented to the "indieWIRE: Park City" newsletter, "I have my own Mini-Me" in Green.