| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2023 | A delightful movie! Excellent script full of emotional truths. Wonderful acting. Interesting visual style with so many surreal, fun insertions. And overall…
| C | Austin Film Festival 2023 | This was the first feature by this director. And he pulled everything together to make a full movie with good production values.…
| C+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | I'm always wary of stories that require context. I'd read all the fest's films' descriptions two weeks ago, so by the time I…
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Hmm... Fantastic Fest's description called this a "black comedy," but I would label it a "grey drama." They also said it was "nuanced,"…
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Excellent Japanese martial arts film, with excellent fight scenes. Even had a good story behind the reason guys were beating the crap out…
| B | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Very good science fiction movie, coming at you from the Czech Republic. I only point out the source because the director said it’s…
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | This movie was fine, but not my style. Yeah, a bunch of weird stuff happened, I’m not completely sure why. Some interesting visuals.…
| B | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Another good thriller. I kept thinking throughout, "this is a different kind of 'home invasion' movie." Again, I can’t say much without spoiling…
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | This film was done by the same group who did the marvelous Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes that played at Fantastic Fest two…
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Another really good script! It does not follow the typical pattern for this kind of thriller, with very satisfying results. I can’t say…