A year after captivating critics and audiences at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival (where it won Best Cinematography), writer-director Hannah Peterson’s poignant, yet warm feature debut The Graduates will finally open in theaters on November 1 beginning at NYC’s Metrograph. […]

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After being mentored by modern-day indie icons Chloe Zhao and Sean Baker, first-time filmmaker Hannah Peterson is ready to make her mark with her emotional and compassionate drama, The Graduates, which shows life in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy. […]

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It has been a long road for Ethan Berger’s directorial debut The Line to hit the big screen. The film, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival where it wowed critics and audiences, struggled to get picked up for […]

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The ongoing War in Ukraine is captured up close and personal through the eyes of its artists who remain in David Gutnik’s documentary Rule of Two Walls, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival where it won a Special […]

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How do you hang onto your values while everything around you is changing? Monica Sorelle’s touching and observant feature debut Mountains centers on a Haitian immigrant family living in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood trying to pursue their dreams, while gentrification […]

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Anyone who enjoys a contemporary road trip film should be on the lookout for Lost Soulz. Written and directed by Katherine Propper in her directorial debut, it premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival where it was runner-up for the […]

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(The 2023 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 7-18 and HtN has a ton of coverage coming like Matt Delman’s Cold Copy movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Cold Copy, Diane Heger (Tracee Ellis Ross) is […]

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A weekend away at an abandoned hotel means bad news for four friends in the latest horror from writer-director Stewart Thorndike (Lyle). Bad Things puts a feminist, queer spin on The Shining as it centers on a woman (Gayle Rankin) […]

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“You have to be okay with the pain and the blood.” Perpetrator, the latest horror from writer-director Jennifer Reeder (Knives and Skin) kicks off the fall season as it explores a teenage girl’s terrifying bodily changes. It had its world […]

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(The 2023 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 7-18 and HtN had a ton of coverage like M.J. O’Toole’s Boca Chica movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Dominican Republic is a country filled with bright hues and […]

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