# Reviews

If that setup made you laugh, buckle in. If it made you wince, this may not be your movie. Macon Blair is not interested in meeting you halfway.

It is one of those choices that makes you want to yell at the screen, but also recognize as something people do all the time when fear and love start colliding.

There is a particular kind of misery that this character carries best, the kind that accumulates quietly behind the mask, and Holland finally lets you feel all of it.

It is the ideal frame for a character whose entire existence has been defined by the gap between ambition and outcome, between desire and the anvil that lands on your head every single time.

... underneath the blood and camp is something deeply sincere. A film about identity. About desire. About the stories that shape us.

Because when you love someone the way the world came to love Bourdain, the last thing you should do is flatten them into a monument. The braver move is to show them being spectacularly, recognizably human.

What’s at stake? It is perhaps the single most important question when writing a story, be it a novel, screenplay, or newspaper article. What is at stake in the story?

Zhao and Zal masterfully interpreted this omniscient literary narration into an all-seeing camera that gives the film the sense that something bigger than us is always watching.

It’s unexpected, it’s honest, and it’s the funniest outcome that sets the tone for an emotional rollercoaster of an evening.

It was horrifying and beautiful and in that split second, I learned something about myself. And isn’t that why we go to the movies?

Only after he was on the other side filming at a particular angle, he saw the thin thread he somehow missed that would have set off explosives.

Look, I know she's dead, but I have a new crush on Joan Fontaine ...

Needs more muppets.

The real horror is having unannounced houseguests.

Throughout the fest, a crew of dedicated movie nerds make each and every screening an experience unto itself.