Hammer to Nail

After taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm, where it won Best Director, Best Actor, and the FIPRESCI Prize, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is one of the most anticipated films of this awards season. It stars Wagner...

(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Mr. Kmovie review, it’s in select theaters now via Music Box Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) After over two decades of directing Dutch film and television, Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab makes her...

You haven’t seen a true crime documentary quite like Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project. One of the best films at this year’s Sundance, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award, it finds the director revisiting a failed project to adapt...

(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his The Secret Agent movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The...

(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 16-19 in Middleburg, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his It Was Just an Accident movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd...

One of the most gripping, chilling films that shook the Sundance Film Festival was writer-director Alireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at the festival, it is a unique psychological thriller that explores...

On the evening of March 31, 1943, the genre-revising Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opened at the St James Theater in Manhattan. Before the boisterous curtain calls, Lorenz Hart left the theater for Sardi’s, just a few doors away. For...

DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, has announced the lineup for its influential, distinguished Short Lists section for the 2025 edition, along with the Winner’s Circle section slate, which celebrates certain award winners from this year. Short Lists...

(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) ran September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Love That Remains movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) As the seasons...

(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check outMatt Delman’s Sirât movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The filmmaker behind my favorite film of 2023 Afire,...