Hammer to Nail

After terrifying audiences at this year’s Sundance and TIFF, Steven Soderbergh’s haunted house experiment Presence will finally make its way to U.S. theaters to kick off the new year. NEON picked up the movie following its Sundance premiere, adding it...

“I guess you could call that instinct – or insanity,” states the director-writer-environmental activist Josh Fox about his compulsion to build a high platform in the middle of the Pennsylvania forest where he’d gone to convalesce from long Covid. Later,...

When is Luca Guadagnino not on a role? The director made waves this year by making moviegoers swoon and thirst over the love triangle in his smash hit Challengers. Now he’s back with another tale of lust and longing that...

(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Small Things Like These movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With her 2010 short story “Foster,” Irish writer Claire Keegan established herself as a magnificent...

For his first of two features this year, director Hong Sangsoo reunites with star Isabelle Huppert for his new slice-of-life comedy. Following their collaboration on In Another Country and Claire’s Camera, the duo are back together for A Traveler’s Needs....

The new movie Conclave, from German director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), tells the surprisingly gripping tale of what happens during a papal conclave three weeks after a pontiff’s death. Adapted from Robert Harris’ eponymous novel and...

For a moment, think back to the worst experience in your entire life thus far. Perhaps, for far too many, that experience was an assault. Further, imagine writing a book about that devastating occurrence and its aftermath. Then, after the...

Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim, writer-director Sandhya Suri makes her feature debut with a new kind of police procedural. Santosh follows the titular protagonist (played by Shahana Goswami), a...

Few American filmmakers have shown as consistent a dedication to portraying marginalized communities with dignity and complexity as Sean Baker. From his early collaboration with Shih-Ching Tsou on 2004’s Take Out which intimately captured the day-in-the-life of an undocumented Chinese...

(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival runs October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Emilia Pérez movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There’s something deeply alluring about big, ambitious artistic swings, even if the result is less home run...