With “The History of Concrete,” John Wilson takes the least interesting subject imaginable — the dull gray composite used for sidewalks, overpasses and pretentious art films like “The Brutalist” — and crafts what’s likely to be the most entertaining documentary of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Trying to extract laughs (and deeper insights, on occasion) from a free-associative look at people and projects with ties of some kind to the ugly building material, Wilson feigns interest in “something that occupies so much of your visual environment,” presenting what feels like a parody of nonfiction filmmaking (the loosely structured essay form, at least).
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