‘Someone’s Daughter’ Review: An Underwhelming Survival Thriller [Fantasia 2026]

Despite an alluring visual language and decent performances from both Pascale Bussières and François Arnaud, filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s ‘Someone’s Daughter’ seems afraid to explore the central topic at the heart of the movie.

‘Nightborn’ Review: A Clumsy and Irritating Folk Horror Film [Fantasia 2026]

While Seidi Haarla gives filmmaker Hannah Bergholm’s ‘Nightborn’ a real dramatic heft, this Cheval Noir-award winning picture quickly bludgeons the audience with the same old tropes, ideas and irritating shrieks that ultimately signify nothing.

Festival Review, Movie Review, HorrorMaxance VincentAugust 2, 2026Nightborn, Hanna Bergholm, Horror, Movie Review, Fantasia 2026Comment

‘I Love Paris’ Review: The Next Great Mockumentary is Here [Fantasia 2026]

Thanks to its committed performances and an impeccably controlled aesthetic palette, director Nicky Murphy gives us a mockumentary for the ages in ‘I Love Paris’, which can even put What We Do In the Shadows to shame.

Comedy, Festival Review, Movie ReviewMaxance VincentJuly 29, 2026I Love Paris, Nicky Murphy, Comedy, Fantasia 2026, Movie ReviewComment

‘Corpus’ Review: Corrin Evans’ Debut is a Strikingly Indecipherable Object [Fantasia 2026]

While not without its flaws, filmmaker Corrin Evans strikes the screen with the aesthetically invigorating and thematically rich ‘Corpus’, one of the major highlights of this year’s Fantasia Cheval Noir section.

Movie Review, Festival Review, HorrorMaxance VincentJuly 29, 2026Corpus, Fantasia 2026, Movie Reviews, Horror, Corrin EvansComment

‘You Are the Film’ Review: Makoto Ueda’s Meta-Comedy is a Hoot [Fantasia 2026]

While brief, Makoto Ueda crafts a highly playful meta-comedy with ‘You Are the Film’ and awakens our innate love of cinema as a unifying art form.

Festival Review, Comedy, Movie ReviewMaxance VincentJuly 27, 2026You Are the Film, Makoto Ueda, Comedy, Fantasia 2026Comment

‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Review: Schoenbrun Deconstructs Slasher Cinema In This Brilliantly Subversive Satire [Fantasia 2026]

Jane Schoenbrun tackles a lot in ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ that it almost feels like it’s going to collapse in on itself, until it doesn’t and opens up in ways you never expected from the outset.