The Scout opens this Friday at Film Forum in NYC. Below is Matt Delman’s interview with Director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila, edited for length and clarity. You can also read his full review here. Hammer to Nail: I […]

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(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s The History of Concrete movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “The History of Concrete? That doesn’t sound very interesting,” says the teenager. “The title isn’t intended […]

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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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“Enjoy it those of you who are alive. The world is fantastic.” — (at the time) oldest person Maria Branyas Morera [via social media] A decade in the making—from July 2015 to July 2025—or a lifetime. Several lifetimes, admittedly! Individually […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Buddy review. It’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) I was not a child in the 1990s, nor did I have children of my own, but I would nevertheless catch […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Colony review; it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the video game and TV series The Last of Us, humans are infected by the Cordyceps fungus and thereby become the […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s The Rivals of Amziah King, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Rivals of Amziah King is only writer/director Andrew Patterson’s second feature—the first was the wholly original […]

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(The Vashon Island Film Festival runs August 13–16 for its fifth year. Check out Alan Motley’s Tony movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) I absolutely loved Tony, so let me just […]

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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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Hirokazu Kore-eda has spent his career making quiet, humane films about families, and he won the Palme d’Or for one of them, Shoplifters, in 2018. Sheep in the Box, his seventeenth feature, keeps its attention on parents and children but […]

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