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FILM ROOM
Welcome to the Film Room, home to TwilightRoom’s film reviews, rankings, and features, 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
Clayface
Clayface is lean, bloody and proud of both. DC Studios’ body-horror origin story trades sequel setups for a standalone film told with conviction, and it proves the best thing DC can do right now is think small.
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
You Can See Everything
You Can See Everything is a masterpiece of filmmaking, pairing stunning framing and cinematography with an immaculately timed progression of events that never lets up. At its center is the endlessly intriguing relationship between Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes, one of the most compellingly structured and realized in...
The Social Reckoning
The Social Reckoning is far more solid than many other outlets suggest, but it also struggles in many of the technical areas where its predecessor, The Social Network, excelled. And while the recasting and new additions are brilliant across the board, the switch in directors is a noticeable and unavoidable...
Digger
Digger is a hard film to pinpoint, and our verdict lands uncomfortably in the middle, a film too intelligent to dismiss, but perhaps also too intelligent for its own good, more pleased with itself than its audience is, with a Tom Cruise performance that promises much more than it...
Articles
The Outlaw Reforged: The Historical Timeline of Robin Hood in Film
This is our full ranking and examination of the full century of Robin Hood films, from Douglas Fairbanks to Hugh...
Jacques Tati: A Historical Timeline of Cinema’s Great Choreographer of Chaos
This is our full ranking and examination of Jacques Tati's filmography, from the early shorts through the final circus, alongside the ideas that defined all of...
The Biggest Releases at Fantastic Fest 2026
These are the 16 biggest and most anticipated films of Fantastic Fest 2026, and we at TwilightRoom can't wait to cover...
Criterion Tuesday
Days of Heaven
Days of Heaven is a romance film that mirrors Malick's own love affair with the American heartland, photography, and the art of film, and that devotion is both the film's most beautiful characteristic and the reason it keeps a certain kind of viewer at a...
John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy
John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy, taken together, constitutes a dramatic universe entirely on its own, as the Criterion set makes an overwhelming case for Singleton as one of the most essential American directors of his generation...
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid stands as one of the great yet unique westerns of its era and of all time. A brutal take on the genre that somehow finds real beauty in its nuance and struggle it so properly depicts...
Throwback Thursday
Memories (1995)
Memories thrives on its bold creativity and distinct visual identity, delivering three uniquely compelling stories that vary in execution but collectively highlight the power of animation as a medium for psychological and thematic exploration unattainable in love action...
The Fast and The Furious
The Fast and the Furious is ultimately a fantastic first entry with very clear flaws, the kind of movie that works better as an entertaining nostalgic action hit than as a great film in any traditional sense as it stands as the foundation of an empire, and it's genuinely worth remembering just how small and scrappy that...
Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso stands as one of Studio Ghibli's most underrated works, a film whose reception, viewership, and reputation continue improving year over year as more Western audiences finally discover just how unique and beautiful it really...
Festival Coverage
TwilightRoom Expands Film Festival Coverage to AFI FEST 2026 as Hollywood Prepares for Awards Season
Founder Devin Esser to cover the American Film Institute's 40th festival, featuring 157 films from 50 countries and 10 international Oscar...
TwilightRoom Adds Fantastic Fest 2026, Continuing Its Growing Presence on the Film Festival Circuit
Founder Devin Esser covers the country’s largest genre film festival, as credentialed press, surfacing the inventive independent storytelling shaping modern cinema. SAN DIEGO, CA...
The Biggest Releases at Fantastic Fest 2026
These are the 16 biggest and most anticipated films of Fantastic Fest 2026, and we at TwilightRoom can't wait to cover...
