Hammer to Nail

It’s almost DOC NYC season again! The largest documentary film festival is returning to New York City this fall for its 16th edition. Taking place in person November 12-20, it will feature more than 115 feature-length documentaries, 30 world premieres,...

Having premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it picked up the prestigious Golden Lion for Best Film, Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother will certainly be a different kind of family drama to come out this holiday season. A...

Many actors have added multi-hyphenates to their resumes, dipping into other facets of auteur filmmaking. But no one has done it quite like Crispin Hellion Glover. For that, and many other reasons, he remains one of the most unique artists...

(The New/Next Film Festival took place October 2-5 in Baltimore, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his WTO/99movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) I love well-made,...

(The New/Next Film Festival took place October 2-5 in Baltimore, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his André Is an Idiot movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on...

After taking us to the land of dreams in his 2021 feature, Strawberry Mansion, director Albert Birney is back to transport us to a virtual reality from the late ’80s. OBEX, which he co-wrote with filmmaker Pete Ohs (also serving...

(Check out Chris Reed’s The Ice Tower movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Ice Tower is French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s fourth feature, after Innocence (2004), Evolution (2015), and Earwig (2021). Based on her body of work, she...

(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.) If ‘audible gasp’ were a movie, it...

Documentarian Amber Fares’ documentary, Coexistence, My Ass!, shines a light on how humor can be a vigorous tool in activism. It follows the rise of Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi, who grew up with a sense of unity in a...

A romance unlike anything you’ve seen in recent years, breakout writer/director Harry Lighton’s Pillion will certainly make you gasp and swoon. This funny and surprisingly touching BDSM tale is adapted from the 2020 novel “Box Hill” by Adam Mars-Jones, starring...