Film Festivals

Our film festival coverage over the years has included Sundance, Fantasia Fest, Fantastic Fest, TIFF and more! Find many movie reviews and insights into visiting these festivals below!

 

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‘Clarissa’ Review: A Beautifully Shot Subtle Example of Slow Cinema | BFI London Film Festival 2026

Latoya Austin ,  ,  5 min read

Clarissa is the eponymous character, played by a luminous Sophie Okendo, who is transplanted to modern-day Lagos in this tale of societal interaction interspersed with class dynamics, loosely based on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway novel from 1925. Sensuous and slow-paced, Clarissa embraces the Nigerian landscape to make it a central character amongst a stellar cast. However, the subtle direction and restraint

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Rome Film Fest 2026 showcased Marvel's VisionQuest series with a sneak peek at episode 3 (photo by Uday Kataria)
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‘VisionQuest’ Screening & Episode 3 Sneak Peek at the Rome Film Festival

Uday Kataria ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  7 min read

Marvel Television’s VisionQuest is finally here to conclude the WandaVision trilogy, and the studio is pulling out all the stops. Paul Bettany and Ruaridh Mollica swung through Italy to screen the first two episodes of VisionQuest (and a sneak peek at episode 3) at the Rome Film Festival on Thursday night. I happened to be in Bologna the day before, so

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‘Primetime’ Review: A Stylish Descent Into Network TV | Fantastic Fest 2026

John Dotson ,  ,  4 min read

Primetime is the type of film that could easily have been a disaster. It’s a very difficult task to put the audience against someone who is catching child predators. Especially since Chris Hansen has done work beyond the network juggernaut To Catch a Predator to help reduce child trafficking at home and abroad. However, since the documentary Predators, there has been

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‘Wild Horse Nine’ Has Chemistry and Heart | Fantastic Fest 2026

John Dotson ,  4 min read

Wild Horse Nine is another Martin McDonagh movie that finds remorse in the scummiest of scumbags. In In Bruges, McDonagh made two unlikely hitmen hilarious and somehow empathetic, mostly through the performances of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. His new film, Wild Horse Nine, does something similar. The film follows two men in a tedious profession and the friendship they have

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‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’ Elevated by Rinko Kikuchi’s Performance | TIFF 2026 Review

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  4 min read

Within the first second of Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, the American filmmaker of Polish and Japanese descent immediately grabs our attention with large (and maximalist) title cards that announce a boisterous theatrical event. Divided into six chapters (plus an epilogue), Wladyka follows a Japanese dancer named Haru (Rinko Kikuchi), who competes in ballroom competitions with her boyfriend Luis (Alejandro Edda). A story

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‘Carrie’ Feels Fresh in First Two Episodes | Fantastic Fest 2026

John Dotson ,  ,  4 min read

Mike Flanagan gave a two-episode sneak peek at his new take on Stephen King’s Carrie, showcasing the first two episodes to Fantastic Fest audiences. All eight episodes of Carrie will premiere on Prime Video on October 7, 2026. This new vision is one of the first collaborations between Flanagan and Prime Video, and at first glance, it seems like a healthy start. Since

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‘Beware Boiúna’ Review: Great Creature Feature, Almost | Fantastic Fest 2026

John Dotson ,  ,  4 min read

Beware Boiúna might be a creature feature, but it is very much a slasher film. Like films such as Friday the 13th or goofy slashers like some of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, we know right away who will live or die the minute they start speaking. The difference is the person holding the knife is a snake, and her

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‘Resident Evil’ Review: A Masterful Adaptation | Fantastic Fest 2026

John Dotson ,  ,  ,  ,  5 min read

Resident Evil does not follow the video game’s exact plot. This has been a frequent complaint online. While that’s true, none of Paul W. S. Anderson’s movies followed the exact plotline. For the most part, almost none of the movies follow the story, and the only one that came close flopped two years ago. So what is a filmmaker to do? Zach

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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ is an Absolute Masterpiece | TIFF 2026 Film Review

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  4 min read

After Marvel Studios fumbled the production of Bassam Tariq’s vision for Blade with Mahershala Ali, the director and actor both left the long-gestating MCU project to do Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. The action movie then used Ali’s training for Eric Brooks to instead put him in a tormented character study about a single Muslim father trying to do right

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