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Reviews‘Tony’ review: Dominic Sessa impresses as young chef Anthony Bourdain
Antonio Banderas and Emilia Jones also star in the feature, which opens in the US on August 7
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Reviews‘The Leader’ review: Michael Gallagher weaves gripping, grim drama about Heaven’s Gate cult
Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga shine in true-life tale that offers no easy answers
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Reviews‘Village Of Eight Gravestones’ review: ‘Ju-on: The Grudge’ director Takashi Shimizu deftly adapts the 1940s Japanese detective novel
Matsuya Onoe stars as Japanese gumshoe Kosuke Kinaichi in this Fantasia premiere
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Reviews‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ review: Thrilling Marvel sequel offers spectacle and emotion in equal measure
Tom Holland leads a sharp ensemble as Peter Parker faces new foes and old fears
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Reviews‘Someone’s Daughter’ review: A knotty survival tale set against the hostile Canadian wilderness
Pascale Bussieres’s tightly controlled performance highlights this Fantasia premiere from director Wiebke Von Carolsfeld
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Reviews‘Black Zombie’ review: Fascinating doc reclaims the zombie from Western culture and returns it to its African roots
Maya Annik Bedward’s film won Fantasia’s Northern Excellence Award for Canadian filmmaking
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Reviews‘Corpus’ review: Hedonistic horror debut plays out against the sweaty club scene of late ’90s New York
The feature debut of former intimacy coordinator Corrin Evans makes its debut in Fantasia competition
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Reviews‘Rubberhead: The Life & Monsters Of Steve Johnson’ review: Colourful portrait of the acclaimed SFX artist behind classics like 'Ghostbusters'
Nick Taylor’s Fantasia doc features a host of talking heads including John Landis and Tom Holland
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Reviews‘Ferine’ review: Arresting Italian genre debut is lush modern giallo with feline themes
Andrea Corsini’s first feature world premieres in Fantasia
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Reviews‘No Rest For The Wicked’ review: Atmospheric Danish queer drama makes the most of its 1860s Faroe Islands setting
Kasper Kalle’s Fantasia Cheval Noir title stars Pilou Asbaek and newcomer Egor Venned
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Reviews‘Someone Special’ review: A therapist gets dangerously close to her patient in mangled Thai genre mash-up
The debut feature from Petong Sakulchai and Ariel Feng premieres at New York Asian Film Festival
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Reviews‘The Odyssey’ review: Matt Damon leads all-star cast in Christopher Nolan’s towering IMAX adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya and Charlize Theron also star in the director’s follow-up to ‘Oppenheimer’
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Reviews‘Gealtra’ review: Brendan Canty follows ‘Christy’ with slight, engaging study of young Irish-language musicians
Source: Galway Film Fleadh ‘Gealtra’ Dir: Brendan Canty. Ireland. 2025. 70mins Language is power and creativity is the brightest road to self-expression in Gealtra. Brendan Canty’s slight but engaging documentary (the title translates as ‘gang’) follows a group of young people from Cork as they embrace the ...
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Reviews‘Fruit Gathering’ review: Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is delicate LGBTQ Myanmar drama
Aung Phyoe’s fine-tuned feature debut is powered by an impressive central performance from Nandar Myat Aung
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Reviews‘Samurai Vengeance’ review: Tasuku Emoto stars in Takashi Minamoto’s entertaining spin on the Japanese period drama
Ken Watanabe also stars in Minamoto’s adaptation of Sayako Nagai’s prizewinning novel
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Reviews‘The Siege Of Paradise’ review: Gar O’Rourke follows ‘Sanatorium’ with gentle, thought-provoking look at the impact of mass tourism
O’Rourke’s enjoyable documentary travels to the tourist hot spot of Cinque Terre, on Italy’s northwestern coast
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Reviews‘The Lost Children Of Tuam’ review: Sensitive, unfussy drama follows investigation into Irish mother and baby home
Liam Neeson produces Frank Berry’s respectful drama, which stars Monica Dolan as Galway historian Catherine Corless
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Reviews‘You’ll Never Believe Who’s Dead’ review: A Sligo family attempts to pull off a Christmas heist in raucous Irish black comedy
Dallan Shovlin’s entertaining debut stars Ardal O’Hanlon, Michelle Fairley and Stephen Rea, and premieres at Galway Film Fleadh
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Reviews‘Learning To Breathe Under Water’ review: Winning Irish heartwarmer takes a child’s eye view of healing from grief
Rory Kinnear, Maria Bakalova and Ezra Carlisle impress in Rebekah Fortune’s well-observed feature
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Reviews‘Try!’ review: Crowd-pleasing Irish doc celebrates the community spirit of Mixed Ability Rugby
Oisín Mistéil’s heartfelt film plays Galway after a Sheffield DocFest premiere