Adam Rehmeier’s punk-rock indie romance takes a while to get out of first gear, but its charming leads are fun to spend time with.
Category Archive: Fantasia 2020
Takeshi Kushida’s debut is a heartbreakingly dark love story about confidence and perception.
Quinn Armstrong’s debut is a clever riff on ’80s police training videos that sneaks in some earnest reflection on domestic violence.
Johan von Sydow directs a touching, engaging documentary of a true one-of-a-kind performer.
Argentina’s haunted house movie has plenty of atmosphere, but feels underwritten.
Tak Sakaguchi slashes his way through nearly 600 bad guys in a single take, but the audience gets exhausted long before he does.
Martin Kraut’s debut pits two tortured male nurses against each other in a tale dripping with horror and unexpected queerness.
Minoru Kawasaki’s loving tribute to kaiju movies drags whenever the action moves away from the monsters.
Rinio Dragasaki’s quirky comedy-drama about an unlikely parent-child relationship means well, but relies on a tiresome trope.
Christian Alvart’s remake of a 2014 Spanish thriller turns post-Wall German backwoods into a tense stage for murder and grit.
Kana Yamada’s stage adaptation Life: Untitled offers a glimpse into the lives of women on the margins of Japanese sex work.
Ivo Van Aart’s uneven black comedy/thriller about a vengeful writer is ultimately more style than substance.
Josie Hess & Isabel Pepper direct a fascinating, inspiring look at a woman who found the life she never knew she wanted in porn.