Hammer to Nail

Brazilian-American filmmaker Bernardo Britto, known for his innovative animated shorts, makes his feature directorial debut with Omni Loop. This sci-fi comedy, starring Ayo Edebiri and Mary-Louise Parker, made its world premiere at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. Britto, whose previous...

(Check out Chris Reed’s The Apprentice movie review. It hits theaters Friday, October 11.. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) It is no hyperbole to claim that the 45th president of the United States, one Donald...

The new documentary Tata marks Moldovan-born journalist Lina Vdovîi’s feature-directorial debut. She is not alone in the process, working closely with her Romanian husband, Radu Ciorniciuc, with whom she co-wrote his own directorial debut, Acasă, My Home. Together, they explore...

(The 2024 New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 27-October 14. Check out Matt Delman’s All We Imagine As Light movie review from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A tender, lyrical drama...

One movie that has captured the hearts of critics and audiences on the festival circuit this year is writer-director Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light. The drama, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, follows a close community of...

When it premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof’s secretly-shot thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig made headlines. Marking his first project to debut following his exile from his native Iran, after being sentenced to 8...

As the awards season approaches, studios are coordinating their efforts regarding the films they intend to promote for the 97th Academy Awards, and it appears that the best picture category is poised to be a sausage fest. While many features...

(Check out Chris Reed’s The Outrun movie review. It hits theaters Friday, October 4 via Sony Pictures. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There have been many books written and movies made about addiction and...

Irish documentarian Sinéad O’Shea (Pray for Our Sinners) has a new film out, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, which just premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival—aka TIFF—where I reviewed it. As per the title, it offers a...

After being mentored by modern-day indie icons Chloe Zhao and Sean Baker, first-time filmmaker Hannah Peterson is ready to make her mark with her emotional and compassionate drama, The Graduates, which shows life in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy....