Isaac Feldberg

Film Review: At the Toronto Film Fest — “Apples,” An Eerie, Airy Slice of New Greek Weird Wave

September 11, 2020
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What comes through most resonantly in Apples is its envisioning of a society starting over, and its suggestion that a clean slate, accepted honestly, might not be the worst thing.

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Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part Three

September 5, 2020
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In wrapping up Fantasia, I focused on The Five Rules of Success, Come True, and The Dark and the Wicked, three ambitious genre titles that have stuck with me long since their credits rolled.

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Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part Two

August 30, 2020
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Movies, great or awful, are essential comforts in these nightmarish times. And in my second dispatch of the Fantasia fest, I bring better tidings.

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Film Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” — Charlie Kaufman’s Hall of Existential Mirrors Glimmers Darkly

August 27, 2020
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a bit of a wonder, a careful nightmare that demands rapt attention even if repeated viewings do little to assuage its eeriness.

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Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part One

August 26, 2020
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The Mortuary Collection is a dark diamond in the rough of this year’s Fantasia so far, a canny ode to horror history that pays respect to its elders without appearing dated or derivative.

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Film Review: Shudder’s “La Llorona” — A Supernatural Reckoning with Guatemalan Genocide

August 10, 2020
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La Llorona’s deepest horrors flow from real history, from the atrocities inflicted by powerful men and the institutions established to ensure they get away with it.

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Film Review: “The Rental” — Low Rent B and B Horror

July 25, 2020
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The Rental chugs along predictable genre rails, its characters settling into the expected “types” as screws are gradually turned on them by whoever’s surveilling from a distance.

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Film Review: “The Beach House” — Eco-Horrors on Cape Cod

July 10, 2020
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Sharp, simple, and well-attuned to the hopelessly grim tenor of these past few years, The Beach House knows how doomed we all are, says we deserve it, and prays that, after the tide comes in to wash us out, the rest will be left to flourish.

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Film Review: At the Boston Underground Film Festival — “Knife+Heart” and “Mope”

April 2, 2019
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My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.

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Film Review: “Greta” — Psycho Thriller, Qui Est-Ce?

February 28, 2019
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A B-movie par excellence, Greta’s the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.

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