Hammer to Nail

As of the publication of these lists, the domestic box office for 2024 sees films like Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Despicable Me 4, Wicked, Moana 2, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Dune: Part Two, Twisters, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,...

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Nosferatu, in theaters Christmas Day. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For his fourth feature, Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers (The Northman) turns his cinematic attention once again to the supernatural, this...

In a year filled with ambitious cinema, RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys stands as a singular achievement in American filmmaking. Through an audacious technical approach that employs point-of-view cinematography throughout, Ross and his...

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Count of Monte Cristo, in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière—writers of the The Three Musketeers – Part I: D’Artagnan...

One of the most mind-blowing, visually distinctive films to come out of the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year is Eat The Night from directing duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (Jessica Forever). The French queer thriller, which premiered at...

Ryan J. Sloan’s directorial debut Gazer is a gritty fever dream filmed in 16mm. The psychological neo-noir, which premiered at Cannes Directors Fortnight, stars Ariella Mastroianni – who co-wrote and produced the film with Sloan – as a single mother...

While Sundance is contemplating their potential new destination, Slamdance is headed west to Los Angeles! The legendary independent film festival will officially relocate from Park City to the City of Stars for its 31st edition, which will run from February...

Who knew knocking down taboos could be so much fun? With Maya: The Birth of a Superhero, a VR piece that exhibited in the Immersive Competition, first edition at Cannes, and is currently available on Meta Quest, the UK-based Indian neurodiverse...

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Separated, available now on VOD. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) As we approach the start of Donald J. Trump’s second go at the presidency, it behooves us to...

Noted documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) makes his fiction-feature debut with The End, a post-apocalyptic musical starring Bronagh Gallagher, Moses Ingram, Lennie James, George McKay, Michael Shannon, and Tilda Swinton. Set a quarter-century after a major climate catastrophe...