Reviews

[Fantasia Review] Bridgend

When 79 people between 2007 and 2012 commit suicide—many teens and most without a note—within a single town, there's definitely a story to tell. Welcome to Brid...

[Fantasia Review] Crumbs

Spanish writer/director Miguel Llansó's independent film company Lanzadera Films explains its mission as a firm that focuses on "undiscovered countries, experim...

[Fantasia Review] Possessed

I didn't know I wanted a horror parody in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch until about halfway through Samuel Ortí Martí's pitch black skewering of the genre ...

[Fantasia Review] Ava’s Possessions

When the industry is inundated with supernatural horror redundancies like it has for the past two decades, work like Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Shaun of the ...

[Fantasia Review] Who Killed Captain Alex?

Who Killed Captain Alex? contains Ugandan commandos, kung fu, a MIDI version of Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” as part of its score, a rambunctious (and sometimes fa...

[Review] I Am Chris Farley

In Judd Apatow's 2009 dramedy Funny People, Adam Sandler's character George Simmons, an aging comedy star experiencing an existential crisis, gives a toast at a...

[Review] A LEGO Brickumentary

A LEGO Brickumentary is a business move, not a movie. Everything that was indeed awesome about the company’s eye-opening The LEGO Movie, including the goodwill ...

[Fantasia Review] The Interior

Cinema has taught us that the wilderness is a terrifying place, where wayward travelers are threatened with deadly animals, murderous locals, or, in the case of...

[Review] Vacation

I smelled trouble as soon as Ed Helms was cast in Vacation as the now father-of-two Rusty Griswold. While the perfect surrogate for Chevy Chase's bumbling Clark...