Following her 2019 Oscar-nominated documentary The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa continues to examine Brazil’s rocky politics in her newest film, Apocalypse in the Tropics. Having premiered on the festival circuit last year before America entered its second term […]

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Director Jia Zhangke and his leading lady Zhao Tao have been an unstoppable force in Chinese cinema, having collaborated on more than half a dozen films. Six years after the duo worked together on Ash Is Purest White, they have […]

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(The 2024 New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 27-October 14. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Shrouds movie review from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) No other mind exists in cinema like David Cronenberg’s. […]

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After his return a few years ago with Crimes of the Future, body horror maestro David Cronenberg has quickly followed it up with what may be his most personal film yet. The Shrouds is another darkly funny futuristic thriller starring […]

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Writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) explores desire and mercy in his newest queer noir, Misericordia. Translating to Mercy, the film follows Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) who returns to his Saint-Martial home for his late boss’s funeral. He soon becomes […]

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Miguel Gomes, the Portuguese filmmaker behind Tabu, Arabian Nights, and The Tsugua Diaries, is back with a black-and-white-shot odyssey that toggles eras, cultures, and styles. Grand Tour, billed by MUBI as a “melodrama and screwball comedy with a cat-and-mouse chase […]

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After his romantic drama Genesis, Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage is back with a new lush, intimate drama Who By Fire. It follows two families on a secluded getaway in the forest as they content with romantic intricacies and simmering tensions. […]

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There’s no better movie to arrive in early spring like Carson Lund’s Eephus. The Cannes and NYFF hit is a phenomenal baseball movie for anyone with a deep love of the classic American sport/pastime. Set in a baseball field in […]

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After months of anticipation given its festival circuit and awards season domination, we are just weeks away from the U.S. release of Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. Co-written with his partner Mona Fastvold, Corbet won the Silver Lion for Best Director […]

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NEW YORK, NY (November 25, 2024) – Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor’s essential, urgent documentary No Other Land as the recipient of the 2024 IFSN Advocate Award. The award […]

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