Hammer to Nail

The major box-office successes of the year notwithstanding (we see you, “Barbenheimer”), 2023 saw many outstanding independent films come out to rival (or surpass) the quality of big-studio releases. Fortunately, in this 21st-century of ours, there are many theatrical distributors...

Wim Wenders, hailing from Germany, is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He has been making films for over 50 years and wrote and directed his first feature in 1971 called Summer in the City. In 1976, Wenders...

(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out Matt Delman’s Poor Things movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The enjoyably eccentric Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has a growing body of work...

Whenever he’s not playing your usual villain in blockbusters, Mads Mikkelsen displays his impeccable wide range of acting in his native Denmark. He is just fresh off a Best Actor win at the European Film Awards for his performance in...

Goran Stolevski is a filmmaker on the rise who’s had three strong features over the last few years. The Macedonian-Australian director made a splash at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival with his witchy horror You Won’t Be Alone. He followed...

As the new year approaches, many new tales of horror and dread await. One of them is director Andrew Cumming’s Stone Age nightmare, Out of Darkness. Originally known as “The Origin,” it takes place over 45,000 years ago and centers...

New York-based Brazilian-born director Fernanda Faya premiered her debut feature-length documentary, Neirud, at DOC NYC 2023 (where I reviewed it). In the film, she explores the secret history of her Aunt Neirud in what quickly becomes a personal essay focused...