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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
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...
Primetime
Primetime is ambitious and offbeat in the most positive sense of the word, bringing the most original angle of any top-five film of the year so far, a film that immerses the audience in the 2000s television aesthetic in the most intriguing, harrowing, and comedic way we have ever seen in a...
The Weight
The Weight has a structure that may be familiar, but it is effortlessly confident, handsomely made, and consistently entertaining in a way that makes the familiar feel like a foundation rather than a limitation...
Articles
The Guerrilla Auteur: Matt Johnson’s Filmography, Ranked
Twilightroom's ranking of all five feature length films from worst to best, some of the most creative and inventive storytelling in modern cinema all talked about...
TwilightRoom’s Top 25 Films of the 2010s
This list outlines TwilightRooms 25 best films of the 2010s decade, factoring in impact, success, and overall beauty and entertainment to give you the best entries from one of the best decades in film history...
Fantasia Film Festival Ranked & Reviewed
TwilightRoom’s ranking of the eight films and one TV show we saw at the Fantasia Film Festival, with our review of e...
Criterion Tuesday
Peter Hujar’s Day and The Delta: Ira Sachs’s Two Halves of the Same Story
Peter Hujar’s Day shines as his best work we have seen and its rating reflects that whereas The Delta represents the intensity and commitment Sachs began his career with, so determined by, two films separated by nearly three decades that nonetheless feel like they’re in direct conversation with each other...
Stray Dog
Stray Dog is an early but genuine masterwork from the director and one of the most complete demonstrations of his craft using rain, heat, sweat, the camera, fourth wall breaks and some of the best actors in history to deliver a fantastic cat and mouse chase, that is up there with some of his best most notable works...
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Big Deal on Madonna Street directed by Mario Monicelli stands as one of the most influential test films of all time, a seamless blend of Italian neorealism, 1950s French cinema, and Hollywood noir that has never quite been replicated despite efforts...
Throwback Thursday
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights The Ballad of Ricky Bobby stands as the apex of the McKay-Ferrell comedy era and one of the defining study comedies of its decade...
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut takes one of the edgiest comedy shows ever made and somehow turns it into a formally ambitious musical satire without softening a single thing about it in the process...
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
The film is at its absolute best when it lets the Bride loose in all-out brawls against other female fighters, sequences littered throughout both halves with fantastic, brutal action that still holds up as some of the most inventive ever staged. Kill Bill the Whole Bloody Affair is a genuine event of a film, one whose...
Festival Coverage
Fantasia Film Festival Ranked & Reviewed
TwilightRoom’s ranking of the eight films and one TV show we saw at the Fantasia Film Festival, with our review of e...
The Biggest Releases at Fantasia Film Festival 2026
TwilightRoom's 16 films premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival 2026, that you absolutely must check out, from second screenings of big Cannes premieres to underrated new independent genre films...
Young Washington – Tribeca Film Festival 2026
Young Washington is a frustrating and complex watch, with real flashes of a genuinely interesting and well-crafted film buried beneath basic storytelling and shallow characterization that keep it from fully realizing its...
