Film Festival Today

Evil Genius (Courteney Cox, 2026) 1 out of 5 stars Courteney Cox’s second feature as director, Evil Genius, is based on the eponymous 2018 documentary (which had the subtitle “The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist”), which itself told a true-life tale. That would be the 2003 attempted robbery of a bank in […]

The History of Concrete (John Wilson, 2026) 4½ out of 5 stars Have you ever heard of the old idiom “this is like watching paint dry”? A classic phrase to describe an act that will most certainly bore you to tears. With that idea in mind, hearing about filmmaker John Wilson’s new documentary The History […]

Resident Evil (Zach Cregger, 2026) 3 out of 5 stars After a string of mediocre film adaptations over the last two decades, fans of the Resident Evil video games have gotten used to disappointment. But now, co-writer/director Zach Cregger (Weapons) offers a different approach. He embraces the series’ nightmarish visuals for a thrilling but slightly […]

Fjord (Cristian Mungiu, 2026) 4½ out of 5 stars Norway is a beautiful country with majestic landscapes, home today to a people steeped in progressive Western European principles, its violent Viking past a distant memory. In Fjord, the latest film from Romanian writer/director Cristian Mungiu (Graduation)—who won his second Cannes Palme d’Or in May of […]

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