Hammer to Nail

(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Every Little Thing. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) First-time filmmaker but established artist Titus Kaphar showed Exhibiting Forgiveness at Sundance this year. Kaphar also...

Zendaya is a master of tennis pulling all the strings in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy new film, Challengers. Originally slated for release last fall, as well as a Venice premiere, it was delayed due to the actors’ strike but it’s now...

One of the most promising American indies of the year, writer-director Ryan Martin Brown’s comedy Free Time explores the delusions of young freedom through the eyes of a man pushing 30 (played by comedian Colin Burgess). It also features an ensemble...

Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, after which it traveled to other festivals such as TIFF (where M.J. O’Toole reviewed it) and then Sundance 2024 (where I reviewed it)....

(Check out Chris Reed’s God & Country movie review. The film is in theaters now via Oscilloscope Laboratories. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) After an early childhood passed without religion, I became an Episcopalian choirboy at the...

When Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away from cancer in March 2023 at age 71, the world lost one of its greatest musicians. Now, his legacy is captured in a stunning new documentary directed by his son, Neo Sora. The iconic, Oscar-winning...

“This is what documentary filmmaking can be at its best: an opportunity to have rich life experiences, to wander and reflect, to visit new places, to embrace spontaneous encounters. For me, the pleasure of documentary filmmaking is that it is...

Back at the New York Film Festival I was taken by the description of Bas Devos’ film Here as I was looking through the program lineup. It read something like:   “HERE – 2023 – Belgium Dutch, French, Romanian, and...

Fresh off its Sundance world premiere, David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset will likely put some pep in the spring season’s step! Their third feature, following Kumiko the Treasure Hunter and Damsel, explores the mythical creatures of the wilderness in...

“What is stronger, your fear or your love for me?” One of the most exciting, versatile filmmakers of today is without a doubt, Bertrand Bonello. The French writer-director (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) returns with his futuristic tenth feature that is sure...