Hammer to Nail

Writer/director Iram Parveen Bilal follows up her engaging 2020 I’ll Meet You There with Wakhri, which just played SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it). Inspired by the life of the late Pakistani social-media influencer Qandeel Baloch, this aesthetically assured and...

Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many prolific filmmakers today, including Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo del Toro, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Christopher Nolan – just to name a...

Anyone who enjoys a contemporary road trip film should be on the lookout for Lost Soulz. Written and directed by Katherine Propper in her directorial debut, it premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival where it was runner-up for the...

We never seem to be running short these days of a Quentin Dupieux comedy. The director’s first of two new movies from last year, Yannick, will arrive stateside on MUBI April 5. The official trailer has just been released by...

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Carol Doda Topless at the Condor. It hits theaters nationwide Friday, March 29. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There was a brief moment when topless dancing seemed as...

Indoor malls have seen better days, but at one point they were both filled with pedestrian traffic and often the hope of urban planners to revitalize ostensibly blighted districts. That’s how the folks in Providence, Rhode Island, thought of the...

“This is it. The moment of truth.” Fresh off her second Best Actress Oscar win for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Emma Stone’s newest collaboration with the director will be arriving a lot sooner than expected. Lanthimos’ anthology...

If one is in the mood for a melancholic sci-fi love story, the best option this season is With Love and a Major Organ. Directed by Kim Albright with a script penned by Julia Lederer, it had its world premiere...

Set in Austin, Texas—the location of its world premiere, at SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it)—the documentary An Army of Women explores how the local police department and district attorney have failed to prosecute perpetrators of sexual assault and rape...

Following the global success of his Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ventured to a rural village just outside Tokyo to film – in secret – his newest drama. Evil Does Not Exist is considered a return to the director’s...