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Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Oct 23, 2026 2.5/5 It’s a Disneyfied take, and even Disney films often have more bite. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 25% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Oct 21, 2026 4.5/5 Working again in his preferred 4:3 aspect ratio and black-and-white images, Pawlikowski, as always, engages a stellar cast from top to bottom. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 91% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Oct 9, 2026 5/5 If it doesn’t make you angrier than you already are, nothing will help you regain your humanity. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 20, 2026 2/5 There’s nothing wrong with mixing moods, but such a blend has to work, and it doesn’t here. Go to Full Review The Stunt Driver (2026) 74% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 20, 2026 1/5 If ever an evil genius were needed, it was in the writing. Go to Full Review Evil Genius (2026) 58% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 18, 2026 4.5/5 The movie plunges us into the middle of an intense situation where the limits of tolerance are tested. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 91% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 16, 2026 4/5 It’s not only a great-looking picture, but a profoundly compassionate one, filled with what we need most in the world today: empathy. Go to Full Review Re/Pair (2026) - - - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 16, 2026 1/5 If it feels like mawkish, Oscar-bait pablum, that’s because it is. Go to Full Review Closing Night (2026) 69% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 13, 2026 3.5/5 The strength of the movie is in its careful, detailed laying out of events, even if the identity of some of the overlapping voices occasionally proves hard to remember. Go to Full Review Pretenders (2026) - - - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 12, 2026 4.5/5 Every artist who agrees to have a movie made about them should be so lucky as to have their work photographed in as exquisite a manner as that used by Èlia Gasull Balada and Matteo Norzi … for the canvases of Sara Flores. Go to Full Review The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026) - - - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 10, 2026 4/5 This is "unseen labor," as Kopple informs us, and her job is to make sure we see it. Go to Full Review Union Town (2026) 100% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Sep 3, 2026 2/5 Instead of building emotional payoffs from meticulous story structure, Wingard doubles down on gore and mayhem, both untethered to meaningful consequence. There’s not much rhyme or reason to what transpires. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Aug 20, 2026 4.5/5 Never thought you’d care deeply for the would-be apex predator chasing the speedy bird? Well, you were wrong. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Jul 3, 2026 4.5/5 Throughout, Wilde constantly catches us off guard in the best possible way. Thanks for the invitation; I’m glad I accepted. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Jun 25, 2026 1/5 In addition, the action looks terrible, the CG showing at the digital seams Go to Full Review Supergirl (2026) 52% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Jun 24, 2026 2/5 The resulting triptych delivers a muddled narrative, no one storyline developed enough to matter. Go to Full Review Couture (2025) 52% - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Jun 23, 2026 5/5 In the increasingly scary 21st-century world, this is the kind of message we all need, and a lesson that School of Defectors delivers in all its cinematic glory. Go to Full Review School for Defectors (2026) - - - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Jun 11, 2026 3.5/5 But though its structure may be somewhat conventional, its setting is anything but. Bursting with sparkling energy and life (and sex), the movie explores big themes that are universal in scope and specific in detail. Let’s dance. Go to Full Review Funk (2026) - - - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Jun 9, 2026 3.5/5 It’s a rousing tribute, and though it leans into hagiography, a fairly three-dimensional one. We hear a variety of voices, if none from the opposing side, discuss his many strengths (and weaknesses) as a leader. Go to Full Review Mario (2026) - - - -

Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Jun 8, 2026 3.5/5 You’ll come away with a robust understanding of all the facts, and along the journey gain an appreciation of the pride of place Memphis should hold in our memory, too. Go to Full Review The Lorraine (2026) - - - -