(Check out Anders Ljung’s Mouse movie review, it’s in select theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Grief is an especially difficult emotion to navigate during adolescence, a period already consumed by insecurity, uncertainty, and […]

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(Check out Anders Ljung’s Paris Was a Woman movie review, Greta Schiller’s acclaimed 1996 doc. It’s currently in the midst of a week long revival at the Metrograph in NYC. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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(Check out Anders Ljung’s Lemonade Blessing  movie review. After a premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Fest, filmmaker Chris Merola is taking the film on a cross-country tour. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There are […]

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(Check out Anders Ljung’s Primetime movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is something almost perverse about Robert Pattinson spending one of the biggest years of his career playing increasingly […]

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(Check out Anders Ljung’s 76 Days Adrift movie review, it’s available on VOD via Apple TV now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is an inherent intimacy to a survival story told by the person who […]

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(Check out Anders Ljung’s Hope movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is a moment somewhere within the relentless carnage of Na Hong jin’s Hope when the human body seems to […]

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In 1989, Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps looking for something few people would willingly seek: the destruction of her own ego. There, she joined U.G. Krishnamurti, the radical Indian anti-guru who rejected virtually every convention associated with spiritual […]

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(Check out Anders Ljung’s The Natural State movie review, fresh from the 2026Telluride Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In 1989, wealthy New York mother Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps with an extraordinary objective: […]

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(Check out Anders Ljungs Maddie’s Secret review, it’s available on VOD now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is something almost miraculous about the tonal balancing act of Maddie’s Secret. John Early’s feature directorial debut is […]

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(Check out  Anders Ljung’s I Want Your Sex movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) After more than a decade away from feature filmmaking, Gregg Araki finally came home to Sundance this […]

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