AwardsWatch - Film Reviews

Fantasia Review: Bryan Bertino is back with ‘The Dark and the Wicked,’ a masterful supernatural horror

Sara Clements August 29, 2020

“Because you were home” is still a chilling phrase twelve years later. Bryan Bertino burst onto the horror scene with The Strangers, a divisive film... Read More

Film Review: Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ describes the indescribable

Michael Frank August 28, 2020

Categorizing Charlie Kaufman’s new Netflix film I’m Thinking of Ending Things as horror would be a mistake. In fact, labeling Kaufman’s latest to any genre,... Read More

Fantasia Review: ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’ is a wicked coming-of-age tale

Sara Clements August 23, 2020

It’s autumn of 1973, but you wouldn’t know it. As a plane flies above, what’s below is a settlement that looks 100 years in the... Read More

Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s time-bending ‘Tenet’ is his most challenging film yet

Tero Heikkinen August 21, 2020

In the canon of Christopher Nolan films, Tenet is the same thing in reverse, and that’s not a bad thing SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS... Read More

Film Review: Jayro Bustamante’s ‘La Llorona’ (2020), an absorbing examination of an untold history and the politics of horror

Valerie Complex August 17, 2020

The Guatemalan genocide, or the “silent holocaust,” is the setting for director and writer Jayro Bustamante’s new film La Llorona–not to be confused with the... Read More

Fantasia Review: ‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’ is a Masterful Ode to Movie Lovers

Sara Clements August 16, 2020

“I saw it in a movie” is something everyone has said at least once, and it’s this phrase that’s the essence of Sam Quah’s feature... Read More

Film Review: ‘Sputnik’ is better red than dead

Jason Adams August 13, 2020

A feast for hypochondriacs, Sputnik asks the question, “What if that tickle in the back of your throat is actually a parasitic alien life-form that slithers out... Read More

Film Review: In ‘Boys State,’ American Exceptionalism Wins

Amelia Merrill August 11, 2020

Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s documentary Boys State begins by juxtaposing two ideologically opposite campers at the Texas outpost of the American Legion’s Boys State... Read More

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Battlefield Earth and Gladiator (2000)

Jeff Beachnau August 7, 2020

“After returning the video I honestly asked the clerk that even when I’m very drunk to stop me from renting this movie ever again. Hopefully... Read More