★★★★★ | Smartly written and packed with fantastic performances, Burning is a horror tour de force everyone should seek out.
★★ | Delightfully silly and with great performances, Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards is sadly overstuffed and undercooked.
★★★★ | Mixing found footage with cosmic horror and broad satire, Buffet Infinity is a deceptively smart satire on a society gone rogue.
★★★★ | An exquisitely crafted adult fairy tale that leaves the viewer shaken to their core.
Fantasia Festival 2025 has a packed lineup of excellent genre films. Here are ten of them which I wouldn't miss this year.
★★★★ | A melancholy and honest story about the healing power of art from one of the current masters of the genre.
★★ | Margaret Qualley lights up the screen in a tonally messy detective-mystery-sex-romp that's missing a third act.
★★★ | Brilliant performances elevate a script that doesn't quite nail the complex themes it explores.
★★★★ | Immaculate directing and beautiful performances carry this melancholy drama from Chie Hayakawa.
★★★★ | Lea Drucker is spellbinding in an anti-procedural that depicts police corruption with terrifying results.
★★★★ | A slow burning horror film about the banality of evil that lingers in the mind long after it ends.
★★★★ | Fares Fares is magnetic in Tarik Saleh's compelling film about fascists using art for their own means.
