Fantastic Fest
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Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy cement their positions as two of the most captivating young actresses working today in Thoroughbreds, a wickedly humorous psychodrama straddling the class divide in small-town… Read More
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Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner talk to the aliens in Denis Villeneuve’s fantastic sci-fi drama. Read my review for ScreenAnarchy’s Best of 2016 list Read More
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There’s no shortage of fantastical allegories in literature and film, through which children wrestle with life’s trials, and in this regard J.A. Bayona’s follow-up to his 2012 disaster drama The… Read More
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Following the disappointment of his Hollywood debut The Last Stand, director Kim Jee-woon returns home with a riveting espionage thriller that taps into Korea’s recent trend for patriotic Occupation-era period… Read More
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Brimming with magic, mystery and monsters, Tim Burton’s latest family fantasy nevertheless manages to feel lethargic and discernibly lacking in any of the director’s trademark visual style. Read my review Read More
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Japanese action star Tak Sakiguchi makes a welcome return to the screen in this stripped-down action thriller that sees a deadly super soldier forced out of seclusion and back to… Read More
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Scott Adkins brings redeemed Russian MMA fighter Yuri Boyka back to the screen for the third time, delivering another helping of blistering bloody bouts of carefully choreographed carnage. Read my… Read More
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Keanu Reeves successfully reinvents himself once again, this time as a former assassin forced out of retirement by the shenanigans of nasty Russian mobsters, in this lovingly nostalgic shoot-em-up from… Read More
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I’ve enjoyed and shared Nacho Vigalondo’s debut feature many times but this was the first time I had seen it on the big screen. Fantastic Fest had a special screening… Read More
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An excellent tale of family feuds and bloody revenge. Great direction and a knockout performance from Macon Blair. Read More
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Beautifully directed study of loneliness, grief & how best to preserve dead girls, buoyed by a pair of brilliant performances. Read More
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The latest work of absurdist humour from Japanese comedian Matsumoto is extreme, even by his own bafflingly delightful standards. On the face of it, R100 is set-up as an outrageous… Read More
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One of my favourite films of the year and winner of the Next Wave award at Fantastic Fest. Pitch black satire on high school, our media-saturated society & how quickly… Read More
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This one beat me down with its beautiful imagery and trippy dreamlike ambience. Another casualty of long-distance travel combined with late nights and long hours spent in darkened rooms. I… Read More
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Another one-gag movie from Fukuda Yuichi that gets by on the strength of its child actors long after the joke gets wearisome. Read More
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I loved Jim Mickle’s remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s equally impressive Mexican cannibal drama. Script changes all justifed & well handled, performances strong & Catskills setting beautifully eerie. Read More
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Gorgeously rendered neo-giallo thriller from the makers of Amer. A dream-like, near incomprehensible assault on the senses that seduces with its intricate composition and rich audio-visual landscape, but remains narratively… Read More
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Vidyut Jamwal stands to take the martial arts world by storm after a dynamic breakout performance here as the titular one man army in Dilip Ghosh’s ridiculously entertaining action movie… Read More
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