True Crime Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/category/reviews/true-crime/ What to Watch Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:24:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png True Crime Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/category/reviews/true-crime/ 32 32 ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/zodiac-killer-project/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:29:10 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52479

(The 2025 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23- February 2 in and around gorgeous Park City, UT. HtN has you covered for all the hottest titles like Don Lewis’s Zodiac Killer Project movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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]]> MY SEXTORTION DIARY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/my-sextortion-diary/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:44:14 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50425

(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Bears Rebecca Fonté’s My Sextortion Diary movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) According to one […]

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]]> HAMMER TO NAIL’S BEST FILMS OF 2023 https://www.hammertonail.com/best-of/htn-2023/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:49:09 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=41078

The major box-office successes of the year notwithstanding (we see you, “Barbenheimer”), 2023 saw many outstanding independent films come out to rival (or surpass) the quality of big-studio releases. Fortunately, in this 21st-century of ours, there are many theatrical distributors […]

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]]> VICTIM/SUSPECT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/victim-suspect/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/victim-suspect/#comments Tue, 23 May 2023 16:21:52 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=39511

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Victim/Suspect, now streaming on Netflix. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Continuing the searing, cinematic examination of sexual assault that she began with her 2018 feature documentary Roll Red Roll, director Nancy […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/victim-suspect/feed/ 1 HOLY SPIDER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/holy-spider/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:03:02 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37934

(The 2022 Toronto Film Festival or, TIFF runs September 8-18 in Toronto, Canada. HtN has tons of coverage coming your way so, stay tuned! Check out Jack Schenker’s movie review of Holy Spider. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]

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]]> A Conversation with Traci Curry & Stanley Nelson (ATTICA) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/traci-curry-stanley-nelson/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 23:44:03 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35805

In their new documentary, Attica (which I reviewed out of TIFF 2021), director Stanley Nelson (The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution) and co-director Traci Curry examine the history and legacy of the 1971 prison uprising at the Attica Correctional […]

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]]> A Conversation with Erin Lee Carr & Jesse Barron (I LOVE YOU NOW DIE: THE COMMONWEALTH VS. MICHELLE CARTER) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/i-love-you-now-die-interview/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:50:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30918

On Sunday, March 10, 2019, at SXSW, I interviewed director Erin Lee Carr to discuss her latest HBO documentary, I Love You Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter (which I also reviewed). Along for the conversation was journalist Jesse […]

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]]> TRE MAISON DASAN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/tre-maison-dasan/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:57:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30635

A movie made with amazingly intimate access to its subjects, Tre Maison Dasan examines the cost of punishment on the ones left behind.

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]]> STRONG ISLAND https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/strong-island-review/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:23:54 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28503

With assurance and skill, Yance Ford walks us through her family's history, starting in the Jim Crow South up to the present

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]]> A Conversation With Spencer Parsons (BITE RADIUS) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/horror/a-conversation-with-spencer-parsons-bite-radius/ Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:27:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24925

(Filmmaker Spencer Parsons is no stranger to horror films but he’s never made a film as horrific as his latest, the 30-minute short Bite Radius. Based on a real life murder the film centers on ne’er do-well party animals Peyton and […]

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