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We bring artistry, variety, analysis, and authority to our coverage–from new releases, Festival coverage, and anime to Criterion Tuesday, Throwback Thursday, and Award season highlights–we shine a light on the creativity and craft that makes screen stories stick with us. Every week, new articles and reviews, as well as some dependable favorites will keep you coming back to the TwilightRoom.
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– Devin Esser
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Twilight Room Rating System
TwilightRoom’s rating system uses a simple scale that starts at 100. Because it takes partnership, creativity, and a large team of contributors to make a film or show, each project begins with a foundation of baseline points. As a result, ratings between 50 and 100 are far more common. Think of 100 as reflecting everything the film or show offers–from the dialogue to that immediate, out-of-the-theater emotional reaction.
"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul"
Ingmar Bergman
Recent Articles
Mona Lisa (1985)
Mona Lisa is a deeply unsettling yet emotional character study that uses the underworld of prostitution to explore dignity, identity, and human connection, ultimately revealing how people define themselves through perception while desperately searching for something real...
TV Weekly April 20 – 26
Headlined by the finale of Invincible, and in the thick of Daredevil & The Boys, the final full week of April came jam packed with huge returning IPs, and the best episode of Hacks’ final season, moving slowly from a Prime Video and Disney+ dominated slate into an HBO MAX and Apple TV+ o...
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85
Stranger Things 85 is a fun bu uneven spinoff that captures the nostalgic spirit and core relationships of the franchise well, but should have been an episode or two shorter, more focused on character consistency, and originality, which ultimately leaves me feeling more like the show is more of a repurposed idea than a...