(The 2026 DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival ran June 11-14. Check out Chris Reed’s Love Apptually movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Finding a companion—whether for a moment, a lifetime, or somewhere in between—has […]

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(The 2026 DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival ran June 11-14. Check out Chris Reed’s Playing POTUS movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Political satire is essential to a healthy democracy. Comedy, in general, allows the […]

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(The 2026 DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival ran June 11-14. Check out Chris Reed’s Bucks Harbor movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Longtime photographer Pete Muller marks his feature-film debut with the […]

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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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In the documentary The Siege of Paradise, Irish director Gar O’Rourke examines the toll that rapidly rising rates of tourism take on Italy’s beautiful Cinque Terre region. Comprised of five separate villages—Corniglia, Manarola, Monterosso, Riomaggiore, and Vernazza—along the northern Mediterranean […]

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After their stunning 2019 feature debut, Test Pattern, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford is back with a new drama that measures the strength of friendship and chosen family. Dreams In Nightmares stars Denée Benton, Sasha Compère, and Dezi Bing as a […]

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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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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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(The Tribeca Festival is back and celebrates its 25th year! Taking place June 3 – 14 in various screening rooms around NYC, HtN has tons of coverage coming your way like this The Siege of Paradise movie review from Chris […]

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(The Tribeca Festival is back and celebrates its 25th year! Taking place June 3 – 14 in various screening rooms around NYC, HtN has tons of coverage coming your way like this Via Nagativa movie review from M.J. O’Toole! Seen it? Join […]

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