Film Festivals
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Jailbreak’ Unleashes Brutal Fun from Cambodia
One-note plot. A whole symphony of ass-kicking mayhem.
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Top Knot Detective’ Suggests Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction But Fictional Truths Are Even Stranger
“The path of justice is like a woman. Confusing, difficult, annoying, sexy, but ultimately violent and full of death, destruction, and madness.”
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Is Head-Crushin’ Good Times
‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ trades in the open prairies of ‘Bone Tomahawk’ for the 6×8 of a federal prison.
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Fantastic Fest: Ranking the Best of the Horror Short Film Selections
Ranking the little films that might be the best part of Fantastic Fest.
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‘Cold Hell’ Review: Tables Are Turned on a Vicious Serial Killer
A brutal game of cat and mouse where the would-be female victim becomes the predator.
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Bad Genius’ Doesn’t Have to Cheat to Deliver Its Emotionally Affecting Thrills
A slick, heartfelt, and highly entertaining riff on ‘Ocean’s 11.’
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‘Downrange’ Review: Shoots for Nihilism and Hits the Target
You’d be hard-pressed to find a film that jumps into its story faster than Ryûhei Kitamura‘s latest, Downrange. It opens with an SUV driving a remote…
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Fantastic Fest 2017: 26 Films We Can’t Wait to See
As we prepare for the biggest genre film festival in America, our team picks some early favorites.
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A Peek Inside the Documentary Factory
How the Camden International Film Festival allows nonfiction fans to feel like most movie fans.