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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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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.
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Ingmar Bergman
Recent Articles
Beef Season 2
Season 2 of Beef succeeds on all fronts through its ability to build two complex, contrasting and intersecting relationships that spiral through ego, ambition, and insecurity, delivering high-level acting and sharp social commentary, even as it leans into chaos to expose how fragile control and identity really are in the...
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy delivers genuinely disturbing and effective body horror backed by strong visual execution at high tension , moments, but is ultimately dragged down by weak performances, clunky dialogue, and a sluggish, unfocused narrative that takes too long to find its footing, leaving it as a collection of strong h...
Clue
Clue is this funny, cult classic mansion mystery with so many flaws yet it thrives on its simplicity, using rapid-fire dialogue, structural playfulness, and absurdity to deliver a chaotic tightly paced experience that walks the fine line between throwback hit and cheesy miss, ultimately landing as a hit for the Twilight...