CLASSIC PICKS AND NEW RELEASES
FILM ROOM
Welcome to the Film Room, home to TwilightRoom’s film reviews, rankings, and articles, from new releases and festival discoveries to Criterion Tuesday and Throwback Thursday classics. New here? Start with reader favorites like our 12 Best Films Set in New York.
FILM FEATURE
La Bola Negra
La Bola Negra is a beautiful queer Spanish epic unlike anything before it, and the ambition on display is complemented by the intricacy needed to place it among the greats of the genre.
Throwback Thursday
Spirited Away
Spirited Away is the pinnacle of what Miyazaki and his animators were capable of, a beautiful, nostalgic fantasy built on visuals carrying a sense of wonder that remains genuinely unmatched twenty-five years later.
Spooktober 2026
31 Nights of Frights Through Horror Cinema
TwilightRoom’s Spooktober Marathon for 2026 is a journey through horror cinema history from 1910 to 2026, reviewing 31 of the most influential horror movies ever made, with new entries added each week.
New Film Reviews
Obsession
We have a new scream queen in Inde Navarrette, and Obsession works because it fully commits to psychological discomfort, using sharp dialogue, escalating tension, disturbing dynamics, and calculated ambiguity to give this comedy-influencer-turned–horror director a debut that is deeply unsettling and lingers long after the f...
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II is a dumb occasionally entertaining sequel that improves on the first film through larger scale action, fan-service characters, and ambitious tournament spectacle, though its sloppy writing and weak emotional stakes keep it from becoming anything from then disposable fun...
The Sheep Detectives
Sheep Detectives is the shock hit of the year as it succeeds because of its full commitment to its unusual premise, turning a seemingly absurd children’s mystery into an endearing and emotionally engaging, tear jerker of a detective story that wears its heart on its sleeve in the best way possible...
Articles
Criterion Tuesday
Captain Blood
Captain Blood succeeds as a classic pirate adventure through its timeless and engaging story, with its main actor Errol Flynn’s charismatic performance and Michael Curtiz’s impressive naval battle sequences the almost 90 year old film certainly deserves its spot in the criterion col...
Yi Yi
Yi Yi is a deeply reflective 3 hour journey about how people move through life, regret the past, and try to understand the world around them through ordinary...
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
I figured for the debut of the first ever Criterion Tuesday review on TwilightRoom, we should begin with a directors debut feature film, in one of the newest additions to the Criterion Collection, film #1293, Tim Burton’s Pee Wee’s Big Adv...
Throwback Thursday
Aftersun
Aftersun is a masterclass in subtle filmmaking and creative camera work, using the idea of memories, absence and ordinary atmosphere to quietly devastate an audience and comment on mental...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy
For the first throwback Thursday on Twilight Room, we jump 36 years back to 1990s New York, for the campy, satire, original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
