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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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(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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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It has been a long road for Ethan Berger’s directorial debut The Line to hit the big screen. The film, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival where it wowed critics and audiences, struggled to get picked up for […]
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AJ’s life is so perfect – buttered toast breakfasts, low stress job, regular meals with his dad and his friends, and regular trips to the dog park for his two puppies – that even his boss understands why he won’t […]
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South Korean filmmaker Jason Yu steps into the spotlight with his feature directorial debut Sleep, a taut psychological thriller that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. Drawing from his experiences in his own marriage, cinema history, and his work as an […]
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(The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran September 5-15 and HtN has you covered once again. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Cloud movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has long been fascinated […]
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