Hammer to Nail

After examining the life of photographer Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sackler Family in her documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras investigates the political turmoil of the 20th Century through the reporting of...

Max Walker-Silverman returns with Rebuilding, a tender follow-up to his 2022 debut A Love Song that explores displacement, community, and resilience in the aftermath of a wildfire. Starring Josh O’Connor as Dusty, a Colorado rancher struggling to reconcile his identity...

“Do women make harsher films?” This is the question driving filmmaker Isa Willinger’s latest documentary, No Mercy. The film is an electrifying cinematic essay investigating women’s roles on and behind the camera. Willinger brings in the testimonies of some of...

Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is a 71-minute animated wonder that captures the world through the eyes of a two-year-old girl who believes she’s God. Adapted from Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb’s autobiographical novel,...

(Check out Chris Reed’s Train Dreams movie review, it’s in theaters now and hits Netflix November 21! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With Trains Dreams, the writing/directing duo of Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing) adapt...

This may very well be the year of Jafar Panahi. Now able to move freely outside of his home country of Iran, the Palme d’Or winner is set to embark on a U.S. promotional tour to screen his awards contender,...

After an extensive festival tour that went from Cannes, TIFF, and to NYFF, Lav Diaz’s hypnotic new epic, Magellan, is finally set for a stateside release. It stars Gael Garcia Bernal as the eponymous Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as he...

During Argentina’s Dirty War between 1976 and 1983, up to 30,000 people disappeared. Many were dissidents and activists publicly opposing the military dictatorship, Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (National Reorganization Process), though others were citizens suspected of being “terrorists” for having...

After years of giving unforgettably raw acting performances, Kristen Stewart takes the director’s seat for the first time with a raw character study of a troubled young woman on the path to recovery. The Chronology of Water, based on Lidia...

(The 2025 London Korean Film Festival runs November 5-18 and Hammer to Nail is excited to welcome writer Nathan Sartain to the team providing boots on the ground coverage. Check out his Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet  movie review. Seen it?...