★★★★★ | 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.
★★ | Visually dazzling and with great performances to boot, Alien: Earth suffers from irratic pacing and an inconsistent tone that tear apart any terror the series can muster.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is out now, what should you game on it?
★★★★ | Mixing found footage with cosmic horror and broad satire, Buffet Infinity is a deceptively smart satire on a society gone rogue.
★★★★★ | With innovative gameplay and a spectacular world, Donkey Kong Bananza is a modern masterpiece and a true must-own title for the Switch 2.
★★★★ | As a vision of what an alternative future for Elden Ring could look like, NIghtreign is a superlative leap into the unknown.
★★★★ | An exquisitely crafted adult fairy tale that leaves the viewer shaken to their core.
★★★ | The Fantastic Four is a perfectly fine sci-fi adventure that suffers from Marvel's inability to let the characters do anything else except advertise the next movie in the pipeline.
★★★★ | Smartly directed with old-school thrills, Oddity is a masterclass in sustained suspense.
Fantasia Festival 2025 has a packed lineup of excellent genre films. Here are ten of them which I wouldn't miss this year.
★★★ | Too long and sluggishly paced, Osiris is nonetheless a surprisingly inventive and charming sci-fi-actioner worthy of a Friday night rental.
