It’s finally here—the Seattle International Film Festival is back this week after a two-year hiatus! Opening weekend starts off strong with a screening of Navalny at the Paramount, with other highlights like the Alison Brie- and Aubrey Plaza-fronted Spin Me Round and The Ghastly Brothers, which Matt Baume describes as “Stranger Things meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Ghostbusters.” But that’s not all! We’ve outlined all of our picks for the weekend below, some of which we’ve seen and loved, and some of which we haven’t seen yet but have a good feeling about nonetheless. You can also see all of our picks for the rest of the festival on our full SIFF guide, which is sortable by date and venue.
* = Reviewed
OPENING NIGHT (APRIL 14)
*Navalny
SIFF Says: Like an edge-of-your-seat John le Carré spy novel but all too real, a real-life Russian thriller about charismatic opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned with a notorious KGB-era nerve agent and lived to tell the tale.
Read The Stranger’s interview with director Daniel Roher.
(Paramount Theatre, 7 pm)
