(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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(Check out Anders Ljung’s With Hasan in Gaza movie review, it is in theaters now via Cinema Guild. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Kamal Aljafari’s documentary With Hasan in Gaza arrives not as an excavation […]

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Check out Anders Ljung’s Been Here Stay Here movie review, it hits theaters Friday, May 15. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) David Usui’s Been Here Stay Here arrives with the quiet confidence of a filmmaker who […]

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“I’m not sure if we have truly hit rock bottom, but I hope if it’s not now, then it will come soon, because I’m not sure how it can get any worse than this.” – Julia Ducournau  It appears to […]

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