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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Robert Pattinson continues to be on a roll. With The Drama and The Odyssey already out, and Dune: Part Three coming in December, his newest role as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen will undoubtedly make waves. Documentary filmmaker […]

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(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s The Last Picture Shows movie review. The film opens in New York City on August 7th and in Los Angeles on August 21st in conjunction with a national theatrical roadshow. Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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Returning for its 64th year this September, the New York Film Festival promises a nice variety of international cinema from all walks of life. After announcing its Opening Night (Paper Tiger), Centerpiece (Behemoth!), and Closing Night (14th) Films, the festival […]

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground; 32 Sounds) explores the concept of time and aging in his search for The Oldest Person in the World. Having premiered at this year’s Sundance, this documentary centers on Green’s journey to search […]

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One of the biggest risk-taking directors of all time, John Boorman, signed on to direct what was the highly anticipated second chapter of “The Exorcist” series, Exorcist II: The Heretic. What people didn’t anticipate would be the critical disaster that […]

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Arthur Schnitzler wrote Late Fame in the 1890s and never published it. The manuscript sat in his archive for more than a century before it surfaced, which makes it fitting material for a movie about an artist rediscovered decades too […]

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(The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival ran May 7-17th in and around Seattle. Check out Jessica Baxter’s The Best Summer movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The 2025 Palisades fire had at […]

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(The 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival runs July 30 through August 2 in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, TX. Check out Don Lewis’s The Sun Never Sets movie review, it’s in theaters August 28 from the Independent Film Company. […]

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I am writing to you from the 15th Oak Cliff Film Festival and this time, it’s personal. I’ll get back to that (you know what you did…) momentarily but, I really cannot believe it’s the 15th festival seeing as I […]

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