(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Soul Patrol movie review, it opens November 6. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If we take care of ourselves and live long enough, some of us just might live long enough […]

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I watched (and reviewed) Maiken Baird’s latest documentary, Edward Said: Between Worlds, at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is an engaging and thorough profile of the late, great academic and proud Palestinian advocate, author of books such […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Edward Said: Between Worlds movie review from the fest! Seen it? […]

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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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(The Green Film Festival of San Francisco runs from October 15 to October 22, check out Jonathan Marlow’s Hen movie review, the film opens the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the pantheon of anthropomorph-films […]

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William Greaves feels like a fictional character, hatched in the mind of an African-American writer who contributes regularly to the New Yorker. It almost strains credulity that someone can manage to release one of the year’s best films 12 years […]

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Impressively ambitious in scope, Josh Fox’s humbly titled The Welcome Table finds the environmental activist-filmmaker-writer-musician on a globetrotting journey across six continents, spotlighting the stories of climate refugees. The Oscar-nominated multihyphenate (2010’s Gasland) then brings this multicultural bunch together around […]

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(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency movie review. The film opens in NY October 9 before expanding nationally in November. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) When living in apocalyptic times, it […]

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(The New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 25 through October 12 and HtN has tons of reviews coming your way like Matt Delman’s They’re Here movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Laura Poitras is back […]

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(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s NAZA movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A documentary can frustrate. A documentary can potentially motivate as well. NAZA, a late-addition to the Venice International Film […]

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