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“The Fall Focus selections span the globe and range from children’s animated adventures to Broadway biopics and drag queen zombie comedies. They’ve got domestic psychodramas, international political thrillers and Julia Roberts yelling at entitled college kids. This place has everything. I’ve only had the chance to see a handful of these films so far, but can already say that at least two of them are among the year’s finest.” (Sean Burns, WBUR Arts & Culture)

“With countless movies available at home, Americans appear to be leaving behind the nostalgic scent of movie theater…

“One of the most beloved (if underseen) indie comedies of the 21st century returns to The Brattle Theatre…

“The 20th anniversary of the film ‘Linda Linda Linda’ gives the coming-of-age comedy-drama a new 4K restoration and…

“Among fans of classic and international film, few festivals are held in as high regard as Il Cinema…

IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Oct 9–12 and Oct 30–Nov 2 at The Brattle IFFBoston returns for their eleventh…

“In many of the found footage cheapies which flooded the market in the 2010s, the terror is undercut…

“If the atomic-age monster movie was the premier horror mode of the 1950s and the teen-sex slasher flick dominated the Reagan years, found footage was the horror movement of the 2010s. This strain – defined by handheld cameras, improvised dialogue and barely seen ghosts and monsters – had its big bang in 1999’s ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ but didn’t really come into its own as a genre until the late 2000s, just as cellphones and social media were turning us all into compulsive self-recorders.” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day

Erin Trahan at WBUR gives a preview of upcoming film festivals in the greater Boston area, including Taiwan…