Strip away the spectacle and the snow, and Sundance is all about one thing: movies.

What to watch: our favorite movies of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival | The Verge

For its 30th anniversary year, the film festival debuted an incredibly diverse selection of titles, ranging from the funny to the violent to the just outright odd. Below we’ve collected some of the films we liked the most so you know exactly what to look out for in the year ahead.