(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Amazing Live Sea Monkeys movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Anyone who read comic books from the […]

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Once Upon a Time in Harlem is the best film I saw at Sundance this year. It is also, in a sense, a miracle. In 1972, the legendary documentary filmmaker William Greaves—director of the avant-garde masterpiece Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), […]

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In Traces of Home, filmmaker Colette Ghunim takes her parents back to the homes they were forced to leave as children. Her mother returns to her childhood home in Mexico City, and her father finds the home he fled in […]

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(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Suburban Fury movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury has been in the works for some time. In fact, the team sent out a press release all the way back […]

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During Argentina’s Dirty War between 1976 and 1983, up to 30,000 people disappeared. Many were dissidents and activists publicly opposing the military dictatorship, Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (National Reorganization Process), though others were citizens suspected of being “terrorists” for having […]

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It may be incongruous to characterize a film about war and destruction as “gentle,” or a film of loss and ethnic cleaning as “tender,” but Emily Mkrtichian’s debut feature There Was, There Was Not is a film that continuously breaks […]

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(Check out Don Lewis’s movie review of Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary and Pavement Jed I. Rosenberg’s doc on the early days of the band Pavement. It’s available now to own or stream via Factory 25. Seen it? […]

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