This seems to be the year for Lily Gladstone to shine. She delivered one of the best performances of this year’s Sundance in Fancy Dance, and has already gotten tremendous praise for her role in Martin Scorcese’s Killers of the […]

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(The 2022 SXSW Film Festival runs March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Everything Everywhere All At Once. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) When people who love movies make a movie, it […]

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One of the most memorable films to break out at this year’s SXSW was Pete Ohs’ microbudget black comedy, Jethica. Shot for under $10,000 using a Canon DSLR, it premiered in the Visions section of the festival where it gained […]

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One film that made a wave of terror at this year’s SXSW was writer-director Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet. In her feature debut, which plays out in real-time, it follows a group of white supremacist women who set off […]

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Iliana Sosa’s documentary What We Leave Behind captures the life of her aging native-Mexican grandfather and his rural homeland. It won two awards at this year’s SXSW where it had its world premiere. The documentary is not only a portrait […]

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After a successful debut at this year’s SXSW, writer/director Addison Heimann’s Hypochondriac is sure to disturb audiences when it hits theaters later this month. It stood out among audiences and critics for its portrayal of mental illness and its LGBTQ+ […]

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Ahead of his widely anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik focuses his lens on the creative partnership between legendary musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis in his new immersive documentary, This Much I Know To Be True. […]

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One film that stood out to audiences at this year’s SXSW was writer/director James Morosini’s I LOVE MY DAD. Winner of both the Narrative Grand Jury Award and the Narrative Audience Award, Morosini’s semi-autobiographical film stars himself and Patton Oswalt […]

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If there’s one film to look forward to in the summer, it’s Marcel The Shell With Shoes On. Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate’s animated mockumentary about a one-inch tall seashell is a feature-length adaptation of their short films where Slate […]

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(The 2022 SXSW Film Festival ran March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of X. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Ti West returns with a horror film for the ages. On March 13, X […]

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