Hammer to Nail

(The 2025 SXSW Film & TV conference, ran March 7-15, and HtN has you covered with great coverage like Chris Reed’s Real Faces movie review. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) As Real Faces, Belgian director Leni Huyghe’s debut...

Just a few years after bringing romance and tears to moviegoers with her phenomenal directorial debut Past Lives, Celine Song is back with a whole new love triangle. Materialists, the writer-director’s newest venture with A24, brings together the alluring trio...

Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire continues the French-Canadian filmmaker’s nuanced exploration of coming-of-age themes, but with a darker, more psychologically complex edge. Following his acclaimed films The Demons (2015) and Genesis (2018), Lesage’s latest work examines the perilous dynamic between...

My name is Rendy Jones (they/he) and I am / we are an independent film critic from Brooklyn, New York. My experience at this year’s SXSW was vastly different from my other years in attendance. This year I got that...

After his return a few years ago with Crimes of the Future, body horror maestro David Cronenberg has quickly followed it up with what may be his most personal film yet. The Shrouds is another darkly funny futuristic thriller starring...

(The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival runs March 12-16. Chrck out Jonathan Marlow’s movie review of The Fifth Shot of La Jetée. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “We’re entertaining ghosts now.” One year to...

(The 2025 SXSW Film & TV conference, runs March 7-15, and HtN has you covered with great movie reviews like Chris Reed’s look at the doc I’m Carl Lewis. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The...

The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival returns for its 12th edition. Showcasing some of this year’s exciting new voices in American and international cinema, this year’s edition will introduce New York audiences to eclectic, innovative works from around...

Writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) explores desire and mercy in his newest queer noir, Misericordia. Translating to Mercy, the film follows Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) who returns to his Saint-Martial home for his late boss’s funeral. He soon becomes...

Films can often be described as “poetic.” Dialogue can be prose-like, editing can be lyrical, but very few films are narrated as an actual original poem, or organized in stanzas like Emmy-nominated documentarian Catherine Gund’s latest “docu-poem,” Meanwhile. Gund catches...