The Holy Boy
| A | Fantastic Fest 2025 | I am stunned by the vision of this director/co-writer. The script was fascinating. It kept “unfolding,” revealing layer after layer. It kept shifting…
Haunted Heist
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Not a scary comedy, but a very funny horror movie. As you might expect from Lil Rel Howery. Even though he did not…
Appofeniacs
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | The first half of the movie almost ruined it for me. That’s mostly my fault. From the description, I expected a nuanced, maybe…
Night Patrol
| C+ | Fantastic Fest 2025 | I really wrestled with this movie. The first half was already a mixed bag. Some interesting characters and good humor. But also some…
Mother of Flies
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2025 | These filmmakers are a family of four (and their friends) who decide they are going to make a movie and work hard and…
Primate
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This was a non-supernatural horror movie. Which is not usually up my alley—I'm less about "just survive!" than "what the heck is going…
Frankie Freako
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | Goofy throwback to the 80s puppet-creature features (Gremlins, etc.). Good period-style special effects. Wacky movie logic that doesn't make much sense. Bizarre fun.…
The Birthday
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | This was another movie I had to think through to decide if I liked it or not… Corey Feldman did a fine job…
Apartment 7A
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | As this film went on, I kept feeling like it was a remake of a classic film from the past, (with a more…
Ick
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | I mostly saw this film because a friend of mine is a huge Superman fan (and this starred Brandon Routh), so I wanted…