“In a story meant to express the value of understanding who you are above how pretty you look, Mulan gets it backwards, losing much of the spirit of the animated film, but doing it’s best to look pretty.”
Read More“Josh Boone’s film has a serious identity crisis throughout. Is it horror? Is it thriller? Drama? Is it a run-of-the-mill superhero film? Your guess is as good as mine.”
Read More“Today, Fantasia draws to a close. I couldn’t be more grateful to the festival for allowing me to be a part of this year's exciting and unique event.”
Read MoreWatch Thomas talk with Quinn and Vayu in this Zoom interview about Survival Skills.
Read More“…what’s achieved with bringing this spectacle of a film together is nothing less than astonishing.”
Read More“It’s a precarious scenario that Ray finds himself in, where the only thing more ghastly than the exuberant cost of his brother’s Omnia treatment…is the stringent conditions cablers are subjected to in order to earn their wage.”
Read More“That’s where this documentary excels - shining a light on a blind spot within the black community and throughout the country.”
Read More“Writer and director Quinn Armstrong curates this poignant story with great focus on the points he wants to make.”
Read More“Without being onboard the nostalgia train, Class Action Park becomes an overlong parable of insensible human behavior and one big missed opportunity…”
Read More“…the cast does a phenomenal job wielding the clickbaity lead-ins and enticing narrative details like lures on a fishing line, and we’re the fish being reeled in.”
Read More“Very few films can pull off a feature length one-take that covers as much area as Crazy Samurai Musashi does.”
Read More“[Matt Furie’s] passion for his work as an artist is one of the primary reasons Feels Good Man is such a captivating story.”
Read MoreThis year is the 24th Fantasia International Film Festival, and I’m excited to be covering many of the featured films at the festival for the first time!
Read More“Director Rob Savage has gotten the jump on pandemic-era storytelling in a tasteful manner, focusing more on the demonic terror at hand rather than the circumstances of the pandemic.”
Read More“It seems as though there was much more power in this project than the this filmmaking team could actualize…"
Read More“As a film meant to insight paranoia about home-sharing services, The Rental accomplishes its objective.”
Read More“…while the primary subject matter is the embezzlement scandal, Bad Education doubles as a timely reminder of how valuable investigative journalism is…”
Read More“Even the conclusion isn’t difficult to figure out by the halfway point. But how the collection of stories in The Vast of Night are told is truly captivating.”
Read MoreStill, the film promotes friendship amongst different groups in the midst of violence and given the current state in our country I don't believe there's a more noble goal for the times & that’s where Windtalkers endures.
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