Fantasia Festival: Foreigner
★★★★★ | Eloquently written and superbly performed, Foreigner announces the arrival of a brilliant new talent.
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Weapons is more frustrating than scary
★★ | Weapons features brilliant performances and a superlative first act, all let down by a mess of a second half.
Fantasia Festival: Burning
★★★★★ | Smartly written and packed with fantastic performances, Burning is a horror tour de force everyone should seek out.
Fantasia Festival: Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards
★★ | Delightfully silly and with great performances, Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards is sadly overstuffed and undercooked.
Alien: Earth is a messy and unsatisfying reboot
★★ | 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.
Fantasia Festival: Buffet Infinity
★★★★ | Mixing found footage with cosmic horror and broad satire, Buffet Infinity is a deceptively smart satire on a society gone rogue.
Fantasia Festival: Dog of God
★★★★ | An exquisitely crafted adult fairy tale that leaves the viewer shaken to their core.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps - more alright than fantastic
★★★ | 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.
Oddity is a chilling and classic ghost story for the present day
★★★★ | Smartly directed with old-school thrills, Oddity is a masterclass in sustained suspense.
Osiris is pulpy and charming sci-fi action romp
★★★ | Too long and sluggishly paced, Osiris is nonetheless a surprisingly inventive and charming sci-fi-actioner worthy of a Friday night rental.
Poker Face Season 2 continues the winning streak
★★★★★ | Rian Johnson's winning series returns with another banger of a season.
Superman is the essential summer blockbuster
★★★★★ | Bravely redefining the epic hero for the modern era, James Gunn reinvents Superman by reminding us of the politics and aspirational qualities of The Man of Steel.
