Nicolas Winding Refn has been one of my favorite filmmakers since I first saw Drive as a kid. In the years since, I have watched every Refn picture across every format he has worked in, from the grainy Copenhagen of […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Wild Inside movie review. The documentary will have its world premiere in Central Park on July 29 in partnership with Rooftop Films. It then opens at IFC Center July 31, followed by a nationwide theatrical rollout. Seen […]

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(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Hadestown: The Musical movie review, it opens Thursday, July 23. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page. Is it any wonder given the events of the last five years (of this century, really) that […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Ask E. Jean movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Crime should not pay, at least not for the criminal. Those found guilty in a court of […]

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Blue Film is one of the most daring American debuts in recent memory. Written and directed by Elliot Tuttle, the film traps two men in a Los Angeles Airbnb for a single night and refuses to let either of them […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Romeria movie review, it’s in theaters now via Janus Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In her phenomenal 2017 feature debut, Summer 1993, Spanish director Carla Simón brought challenging moments from her […]

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(Check out Jessica Baxter’s The Invite movie review, it opens Friday, June 26. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Olivia Wilde levels the fuck up with her third feature, a Mike Nichols riff with a micro […]

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There is no working filmmaker whose process is more inseparable from his images than Mark Jenkin’s. All three of his features have been shot in Cornwall on 16mm using a clockwork Bolex, a camera that runs roughly twenty-seven seconds before […]

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By Hook or by Crook arrived in 2001 as the kind of film queer and trans cinema needed before the culture knew how to ask for it. Written, directed by, and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, the film emerged from […]

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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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