Fantastic Fest

‘The Keeping Room’ is the Civil War-Set Feminist Film You Didn’t Know You Wanted

Our review of Daniel Barber's Southern action drama, from our coverage of the 2014 Toronto Film Festival. Read More

Zoom Is Too Ambitiously High-Concept For Its Own Good

Elevation PicturesRead more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here.Alison Pill is Emma, an aspiring comic book artist who earns her… Read More

Man vs Snake Is the Best Documentary About a Game You’ve Never Heard Of

Read more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here.A few years back the documentary The King of Kong chronicled the underdog… Read More

The Disgusting Allure of Movies That Push Us Beyond Our Limits

Trigger warning: all the triggers. Read More

Mamoru Hosada’s Favorite Themes Come to Fruition In The Boy and the Beast

FUNimation EntertainmentRead more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here.Mamoru Hosoda has been one of the more reliable creators of coming-of-age… Read More

‘The Lobster’ Is the Ultimate Relationship Movie

Yorgos Lanthimos’ pitch-dark comedy is a smorgasbord of human emotions - perfectly reflecting the highs and lows of relationships and… Read More

February Asks That You Sympathize With the Devil

A24Read more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here.Kat (Kiernan Shipka) is a lonely wallflower at a boarding school in the… Read More

The Assassin Is Too Stealthy to Engage

Well Go USARead more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here.Hsiao-Hsien Hou has long been one of world cinema’s most revered storytellers.… Read More

Children Swearing, Vomit Flying: It’s the Fantastic Fest Film Rip-Off Bumpers

True to its nature, Fantastic Fest plays inventive, wacky, disturbing bumpers before all of the inventive, wacky, disturbing genre films… Read More