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I met with director Midge Costin on Monday, April 29, 2019, at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, to discuss her new documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (which I also reviewed). In the film, Costin provides a comprehensive

"Les Misérables" is a tour de force of warring factions and emotions, ever engaging as it pulls us down a cinematic rabbit hole of first-world arrogance and resulting despair

...Liz Manashil manages to deliver a very effective story within her significant limitations. It speaks to her talents that she can make something so resonant whilst being forced to dance around the emotional core of the film.

Boyhood was released seven years into the filming of Most Likely to Succeed. The comparison is obvious, but story-wise, Littky is on a whole other level.

First-time director Phillip Youmans won, with Burning Cane, the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. I reviewed the film back then, finding it a remarkable cinematic achievement for one so young (Youmans was still

In short, the just recently Oscar-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" is a powerful, if slightly overlong,

(AFI DOCS 2019 runs June 19-23 in Washington, DC. Lead Critic Chris Reed will offer us some of his usual coverage! Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) In 2014,

Quaid is fine playing the straight man, but all eyes are on Erskine’s Alice, who wears her heart on her sleeve. This is the type of breakout performance sought out at film festivals.