Hammer to Nail

Director Suzannah Herbert’s most recent documentary, Natchez, just played the 2025 Tribeca Festival (where I reviewed it) and it won not only the best documentary feature prize but also special jury awards for cinematography. The movie delivers an intriguing portrait...

Filmmaker Fawzia Mirza’s feature directorial debut, The Queen of My Dreams (which I reviewed back at SXSW 2024), opens June 20, 2025, after a long and successful festival run. A charming meditation on identity and culture—queer, Pakistani, and Muslim—the film...

Familiar Touch represents a unique entry in cinema’s exploration of aging and dementia, offering a perspective rarely seen on screen: that of the person living with the condition rather than the family members watching from the sidelines. Director Sarah Friedland’s...

(The Tribeca Festival ran June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Chris Reeds’s Billy Idol Should Be Dead movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN...

Out of Kenya’s population of 53 million, 8 million are widows. Many face not just the pain of loss, but the added trauma of being pushed out of their homes, denied their land, and labeled with cruel names: “witch,” “murderer,”...

(The Tribeca Festival ran June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Twelve Moons movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)...

(The Tribeca Festival runs June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Chris Reeds’s Yanuni movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Unlike...

(The Tribeca Festival runs June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Chris Reeds’s Natchez movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)...

(The Tribeca Festival runs June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Chris Reeds’s Holding Liat movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The...

After killing her husband in an act of self-defense, Tahereh Eshaghian served 14 years in prison. But the punishment isn’t over yet. Now, her husband’s family must decide whether she is to pay a sum of blood money or face...