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Kurt Halfyard

Kurt Halfyard's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Home Invasion (2023) EDIT “At first, Home Invasion appears to be a super-cut of found footage to illustrate Mary’s predicament. ... But Arnfield has much more ambition. ... The scope of the film keeps expanding. ” – ScreenAnarchy Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% EDIT “Mostly, the film is a high-fructose sugar rush of dispatching various Russian bad guys. I mean, who is against killing Soviet Commies in 2025?” – ScreenAnarchy Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% EDIT “Those who love this kind of lean and mean creature feature, one with a grim and ridiculous sense of humour, should be very pleased with the results. ... It is nostalgia for a bygone era of filmmaking, but it is done with a dash of contemporary flair.” – ScreenAnarchy Oct 21, 2025 Full Review The Currents (2025) 100% EDIT “Respects and rewards its audience in a myriad of ways that I found invigorating. It is better than a cold plunge.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “Cover-Up is far from a Wikipedia page, nor is it hagiography. In fact the best parts of the film are when Hersh himself gets cantankerous about Poitras pushing him towards self-reflection or personal issues. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Obsession (2025) 97% EDIT “The precise timing of such things are crucial to making the story work, as it true for any magic trick, horror film, or comedy. Obsession is all three ... I think Rod Serling would have loved this one; so might have Shakespeare. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 94% EDIT “One of Jensen's best films in years. ... You have to laugh, cry, and simply marvel at how Jensen pulls this kind of comedy off, and makes it look effortless. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 49% EDIT “Settles nicely into the subdued cynicism and inevitable downward spiral into apathy that is often a hallmark of Russian society. Particularly so, when framed from those containing Russian imperial expansion. 

” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “The slow cinema experience on offer with Train Dreams is well worth the trip -- if only because the plot of the film, and the antagonist as well, revolves around the passage of time. ... Elegiac experience in the dark. And also in life. 

” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% EDIT “Director Tamara Kotevska ... has somehow raised the bar here of seamlessly intermingling human-scale documentary storytelling with universal metafiction. ... A miracle among miracles.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Bad Apples (2025) 83% EDIT “The roller coaster along the way is very much worth the price of admission here, if you realize that Bad Apples is as much a theme park amusement as it is a breezy analysis of relative cause” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Frankenstein straddles the middle of a fine popcorn extravaganza, and a thoughtful gothic art film. ... An auteur operating in grand form well within a comfortable wheelhouse. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Normal (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “The team behind John Wick (and Nobody) and Ben Wheatley, the director who made Kill List and Free Fire, have unleashed a holy hellfire of violence and mayhem on main street.

... excels in action set-ups and nasty pay offs. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Forbidden City (2025) EDIT “The real deal, and leading contender for action picture of the year. From its superb opening ‘bait and switch’ involving China’s One-Child policy, to its operatic show-down climax, Forbidden City (La Città Proibita) delivers full package entertainment. 

” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 29, 2025 Full Review The Virgin of the Quarry Lake (2025) 83% EDIT “Subtly mixes elements from Y Tu Mamá También and Carrie into an original, and stylishly low-key pressure cooker. It stays well grounded in its social and dramatic milieu, while dangerously flirting into horror territory. ” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 29, 2025 Full Review I Live Here Now (2025) 86% EDIT “A kind of gothic inner-romance, full of childhood trauma, body issues, and psychological keyholes. It is a saturated fairy tale of self-therapy-by-fire. The painful birth of a new-you, built out of the anxieties, projections, and flesh, of the old you.” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 29, 2025 Full Review No Sleep Till (2024) 94% 4/5 EDIT “It's a state that exists in a paradox of 'pre-ennui' anticipation which is simultaneously the mundane workaday present, and a nostalgic reverie. Like somehow smelling ozone, before the lightning strike. 

” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Dark My Light (2024) EDIT “Offers plenty of off-kilter mystery. ... The filmmaking is often impeccable. ... Not at all lacking in ambition, writer-director Neal Dhand has serious chops. ” – ScreenAnarchy May 6, 2025 Full Review Broken Bird (2024) 100% EDIT “Equal parts psychological mystery, romance, and cool examination of taboos around love and death, that, when all combined, feels like a provocation.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Two Women (2025) 92% EDIT “Well-made fun, all the while sneakily delivering reasons why being an adult, a parent, a spouse, does not have to suck. ” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Eephus (2024) 100% EDIT “Deceptively simple and in no hurry whatsoever, it makes Eephus one of the great ‘hanging out movies.’ Lund also edited the film, and the passage of time measured by the rhythm of innings is near perfection. ... One of the best films I have seen this year.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Reveries: The Mind Prison (2025) EDIT “It is just the kind of Lo-Fi goofery that one hopes to stumble into at midnight at a film festival, or on the television in the chill-out room at a house party. ” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Scared Shitless (2024) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Fun little Canadian creature feature. ... You simply know all around good filmmaking when you see it. Everyone involved in Scared Shitless is very good at their job. The result is a great time at the movies. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Riff Raff (2024) 55% 3/5 EDIT “Riff Raff does not want you to take anything too seriously. And yet it does want you to take it seriously enough ... offers more plot reveals, and character twists, than your average mystery movie or paranoid thriller. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 21, 2024 Full Review By the Stream (2024) 100% EDIT “For those looking to enter his particular world and worldview, I cannot think of a better entry point. ... This might be his highest concept yet: secretly sneaking in a primer on how to pay attention to the details of his kind of filmmaking. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 18, 2024 Full Review
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