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The Promised Land
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
"The Promised Land" is about ten movies in one. It's a history lesson with a central figure driven by an impossible quest. There are bands of outlaws, sadistic aristocrats, and downtrodden peasants. There's a little romance, a lot of torture,...
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KNEECAP
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of Kneecap. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom,” Michael Fassbender’s IRA fugitive repeatedly tells...
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WE GROWN NOW Trailer: Two Boys Navigate Changing Times in Minhal Baig’s Independent Spirit Award Nominee
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Writer-director Minhal Baig returns with a new coming-of-age tale set in her native Chicago. We Grown Now centers on the city’s Cabrini-Green housing district in 1992. It follows two young boys who are best friends and neighbors, played by first-time...
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A DIFFERENT MAN
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of A Different Man. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Aaron Schimberg in his third feature film, A Different Man, sets himself into a...
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PONYBOI
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out  Bears Rebecca Fonté’s movie review of Ponyboi. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) [Note: I will be using he/him pronouns in this review as that is how the...
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A Conversation with Felipe Gálvez (THE SETTLERS)
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Felipe Gálvez has been working in the film industry for over 15 years. While this is his debut feature as a writer and director this is, not the first time he has worked on a feature film. For years he served...
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Origin | Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy For her fifth narrative feature, Origin, Ava DuVernay takes an inventive approach to adapting Pulitzer Prize Winner Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction publication Caste: The Origins of...
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S. Craig Zahler’s 10 Favorite Films of 2023
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
We recently learned that five years after Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler will soon announce his next feature. In the meantime, the director has unveiled his favorite music, books, and––most pertinent to this site––films he watched in the past...
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Death and Other Details Wastes Potential on Neverending Cruise
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
One of the biggest problems of the “my TV show is really just a long movie” era of television is that it has created a common problem wherein a script’s worth of plotting is stretched out to the length of...
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We’re So Short on Time: John Sayles on Lone Star
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
John Sayles’ films are indicated by the quality of his listening. His scripts are dialogue-dense and populated by people of character and intelligence, representing every social strata, every race, every creed. He puts them in conversation with one another, and...
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