Sundance 2026 Review: Tell Me Everything

Amid the late ’80s pop craze and rising HIV epidemic, 12-year-old Boaz uncovers a devastating secret about the father he idolizes that threatens to tear his family apart. Across a years long journey, Boaz seeks to heal the wound and reclaim the father-son bond he never stopped yearning for.

Mosh-pit style nightclub dancing is taking place with a crime noir visual aesthetic, with a ghostly figure haunting the proceedings that can only be seen by one of the participants.  The next shot transitions to a scene in a swimming pool where the ghostly figure is revealed to be the father of Boaz, who is teaching his son how to swim.  There is a feeling of compassion and understanding between them with an idyllic quality to their scenes together.  Things begin to unravel when Boaz believes he sees his parental idol having sex with another man in a public washroom.

A fun moment is when the playful Boaz portrayed by Yair Mazor lip syncs and performs to a song in front of his family as if he is in a music video.  A touching scene is when Boaz drives around the roundabout with his father for the first time.  Mazor is equally effective in conveying a sense of being sucker punched and that his world has been turned upside down.  Ido Tako takes on the role of the adult version of Boaz and has a haunted quality to his performance as he struggles to regain his footing in life.  Assi Cohen has a Ralph Fiennes quality about him as the patriarch of the family whose sexuality gets called into question.

There is a slickness to the production with the 1980s having a nostalgic warm colour palette, whereas the 1990s have a cooler quality as world feels colder and less welcoming.  And I would say that there is even a third colour palette which feels more naturalistic as things begin to restabilize.  Slow motion is used heavily and the depth of field is altered to create surreal moments that heighten the senses and visual impact of shots.  The sound design assists with scene transitions, in particular going from the nightclub to the swimming pool.

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 22 to Feb. 1  2026, in person and online, and for more information visit sundance.org.

Trevor Hogg is a freelance video editor and writer who currently resides in Canada; he can be found at LinkedIn.