Hammer to Nail

“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...

This seems to be the year the Western genre makes a resurgence, especially with the first two parts of Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga and Pedro Almodover’s short film A Strange Way of Life (now streaming on Netflix). Now,...

The Cronenberg legacy continues! Caitlin Cronenberg, the daughter of body horror icon David Cronenberg and sister of Infinity Pool and Possessor helmer Brandon Cronenberg, steps behind the camera for her feature debut. Humane is a comedy-thriller that centers on a...

(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival hosted nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Chris Reed’s The Queen of My Dreams movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Director Fawzi Mirza...

What if Friday the 13th or A Nightmare on Elm Street was told from the POV of Jason and Freddy? Writer-director Chris Nash’s feature debut In A Violent Nature puts us in the mind of an undead killer Johnny (Ry...

If you love board games, have I got a film for you! In The Hobby, which just premiered at SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it), director Simon Ennis (Lunarcy!) explores his newfound enthusiasm for, well, “the hobby” in a celebratory...

Colin Burgess inhabits the self-centered Drew in Ryan Martin Brown’s Free Time, a rambunctious comedy that builds to a generational fever. Drew decides to quit his job and embrace life, but when a video of him chewing out his old...