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Fantasia 2026: ‘Attack on Paradise’ Review
Fantasia 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/30/26 Fantasia 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/30/26

Fantasia 2026: ‘Attack on Paradise’ Review

Bob Colaers’ sophomore feature delivers bloody carnage through an apartment complex, but fails to differentiate itself from its contemporaries.

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NYAFF 2026: ‘Unidentified Murder’ Review
NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/25/26 NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/25/26

NYAFF 2026: ‘Unidentified Murder’ Review

Childhood friends mix pranks with an alien abduction to mostly entertaining effect in Kwok Ka-hei and Jack Lee Chun-kit’s silly extraterrestrial mystery.

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NYAFF 2026: ‘Fujiko’ Review
Film Review, NYAFF 2026 Christopher Cross 7/24/26 Film Review, NYAFF 2026 Christopher Cross 7/24/26

NYAFF 2026: ‘Fujiko’ Review

Taichi Kimura’s sophomore feature is an incisive condemnation of patriarchal values with an endearing protagonist fighting to raise her child alone.

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NYAFF 2026: ‘Kinki’ Review
NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/23/26 NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/23/26

NYAFF 2026: ‘Kinki’ Review

Kōji Shiraishi’s latest horror feature builds upon his legacy of unsettling mysteries with an impressive combination of atmospheric tension and paranoia-driven investigation.

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NYAFF 2026: ‘Gamer Girls’ Review
NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/21/26 NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/21/26

NYAFF 2026: ‘Gamer Girls’ Review

Sophie Yang and Veronica Bassetto’s feature debut has its heart in the right place, but falls short of the important conversation it’s trying to instigate.

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Fantasia 2026: ‘Dance Freak’ Review
Fantasia 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/20/26 Fantasia 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/20/26

Fantasia 2026: ‘Dance Freak’ Review

Robby Rackleff and Alan Resnick’s surrealist comedy is an unsettling and evocative portrait of a violent society threatened by the appearance of an infectious force.

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NYAFF 2026: ‘Funky Freaky Freaks’ Review
NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/19/26 NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/19/26

NYAFF 2026: ‘Funky Freaky Freaks’ Review

Han Chang-lok presents a bleak portrait of teenage malaise intersecting with social media, filtered through an immersive and propulsive DIY presentation.

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Fantasia 2026: ‘You Are the Film’ Review
Film Review, Fantasia 2026 Christopher Cross 7/19/26 Film Review, Fantasia 2026 Christopher Cross 7/19/26

Fantasia 2026: ‘You Are the Film’ Review

Makoto Ueda’s feature directorial debut is a trippy, endearing adventure tightly wound into an astounding puzzle framework.

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‘The Odyssey’ Review
Film Review Christopher Cross 7/18/26 Film Review Christopher Cross 7/18/26

‘The Odyssey’ Review

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem is a colossal achievement in adaptation and blockbuster filmmaking.

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NYAFF 2026: ‘The Dating Menu’ Review
NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/16/26 NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/16/26

NYAFF 2026: ‘The Dating Menu’ Review

Amos Why and Frankie Chung’s love letter to restaurants, lost love, and the vulnerability of cooking is an underwhelming but still comforting blanket of culinary cinema.

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NYAFF 2026: ‘Colony’ Review
NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/10/26 NYAFF 2026, Film Review Christopher Cross 7/10/26

NYAFF 2026: ‘Colony’ Review

Yeon Sang-ho’s latest genre thriller is an exhilarating zombie film with some clever ideas, bogged down by familiar archetypes.

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‘Evil Dead Burn’ Review
Film Review Christopher Cross 7/10/26 Film Review Christopher Cross 7/10/26

‘Evil Dead Burn’ Review

Sébastien Vanicek takes the Evil Dead franchise into the world of French Extremity with an unforgiving, bleak approach and a cruel eye towards everything in its path.

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