“Segan’s melancholy caper/character study assembles 1990s NYC indie icons Turturro, Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito for a tale of small time crooks realizing the times have passed them by. Any overlaps between these old-school criminals and the aging stars of an outmoded kind of independent movie are entirely intentional, and especially effective.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/06/2026

“This is the movie Gray has been trying to make. The nostalgic trappings of the early ‘80s setting underscore the haunted, wistful atmosphere. It hangs heavy with the realization of how suddenly we can discover that the good times are in the rearview. ‘I took risks,’ Teller confesses to his kids, who are only half-listening, ‘And we already had everything.’” – Spliced Personality Substack, 10/06/2026

“As you may have surmised from the title, this is the first Herzog movie one could conceivably call cutesy. It has little of the primal, forbidding strangeness of his early work. One imagines that the old Herzog would’ve made the sisters more feral and a little frightening. But I guess it’s silly of me to fault two billionaire heiresses for not being Bruno S.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 10/02/2026

“‘Movies create community,’ said Campbell. That’s been IFFBoston’s mission from the beginning. As someone who’s been attending the festival for more than two decades, I can’t tell you how many dear friendships started while standing in line at the Somerville, or chatting about movies at an afterparty. It’s a perfect place for folks to come together and make discoveries.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/17/2026

“A naughty, big-hearted party of a movie, writer-director Sergio Tovar Velarde’s freewheeling sex farce The Divine Tragedy is a bawdy, ebullient film full of colorful costumes and even more colorful supporting characters. This messy, happily horny picture is exactly the kind of thing we come to festivals like Wicked Queer to celebrate.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 04/08/2026

“‘I’m calling it One Brattle After Another,’ laughed Campbell. The 27 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.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/06/2025

“Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece is one of the best arguments for the superiority of the 70mm format — a heady sound and light spectacular stretching from the dawn of man to Jupiter and beyond the infinite. The experience of seeing it on a massive screen with a rapt audience having their minds collectively melted is a defining moment in one’s moviegoing life.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/24/2025

“How can you use arts and culture to help people understand and get connected to certain issues? We always talk about film as a catalyst for conversation and we have built into the festival opportunities to have deeper discussions around these screenings. We’re bringing in people from organizations doing work in these spaces to do Q&As with the community.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/16/2025

“In a movie year without big-name, buzzy breakouts from Sundance or South By Southwest, IFFBoston is relying more on documentaries and foreign language films and less on marquee stars. Having been able to preview some of this year’s offerings, I found the scrappy lineup characteristically excellent, even if some of the topics sound like tough sells.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/17/2025