Hammer to Nail

Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has been making films since the first decade of the 21st century, and began his rise to international prominence with the 2015 Happy Hour. In 2022, his Drive My Car won the Oscar for Best International...

(The 2024 Maryland Film Festival ran May 2-5 in Baltimore, Maryland, Check our Chris Reed’s movie review of Propriedade which played the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Countries with vast disparities between haves and have-nots...

The relationship of two longtime friends is challenged in writer-director Noah Schamus’ Summer Solstice. Told from a queer and trans perspective, it centers on two reunited college best friends (Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Marianne Rendón), one trans and one straight/cisgender,...

(Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Gasoline Rainbow movie review. The film is in select theaters now before hitting Mubi on May 31. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) While many Americans worry about the future, five teens from...

Beloved by critics and festival goers all over, writer-director India Donaldson’s feature debut Good One is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated movies of the summer. The only film to screen at both Sundance and Cannes this year,...

Do any New Yorkers have plans this summer? How about chilling under the sun to some of this year’s hot new indie films? Rooftop Films has just announced its lineup for its 2024 Summer Series, which will take place throughout...

Radu Jude is a writer and director hailing from Romania. He attended the Media University of Bucharest. Soon after graduating, Radu worked as an assistant director on the 2002 film Amen and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. From there Radu...

Known for her examinations of the Holocaust in her Oscar-nominated features Europa Europa and In Darkness, Agnieszka Holland turns her focus to the ever-pressing refugee crisis in her revelatory new film Green Border. Shot in crisp black and white, it...

Five years after their charming comedy Saint Frances, Chicago-based filmmaking duo Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson reunite for a soulful tragicomedy with just as much heart. Ghostlight, which the pair co-directed, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival...

(Check out  Chris Reed’s movie review of Finding the Money. The film is in theaters and on VOD now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) What makes the world tick? Is it something divine, such as...