Year in Review: The Very Best Films of 2017
1. SUPER DARK TIMES: When I saw SUPER DARK TIMES at Fantastic Fest in a midnight slot, I had no idea what to expect—and was truly blown away. Kevin Phillips’s directorial debut is insanely engrossing from the jump, setting the tone with a nightmarish opening sequence I won’t soon be forgetting. This is the side of high school we don’t normally see onscreen—awkward, painful, isolating, and occasionally joyful. And that’s all before the film’s climatic event comes out of nowher
Fantastic Fest Review: SUPER DARK TIMES
IN A NUTSHELL: New York–based filmmaker Kevin Phillips knocks his debut feature out of the park, delivering a haunting, visually stunning, genre-busting tale reminiscent the best work of Gus Van Sant and Gregg Araki. If high school was decidedly not the best time of your life, here’s a movie for you… When it comes to movies about high schoolers, few possess the cinematic language to really nail the whole confusing, emotionally charged experience in any meaningful way. Because
