There has been no shortage of artistically strong films in 2025, which is why the critics at Hammer to Nail offer up such a great variety of titles in their respective Top 10 lists of the year. Our choices run […]

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Iranian-French cinematographer Darius Khondji turned 70 in October of this year and shows no sign of slowing down in any way. His credits include such masterpieces as Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 1991 Delicatessen and 1995 The City of Lost Children, David Fincher’s […]

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With the fall movie season not too far down the line, the latest collaboration between Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos is one to get excited over. Bugonia is an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green […]

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After working together on the polarizing, yet mindblowing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix are back together for the former’s fourth feature. Eddington, fresh off its world premiere at Cannes, is a Western set in 2020 during the […]

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The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the first slate of films for its 78th edition, which will take place from May 13 through 24. The films are divided into sections, from the Main Competition to Un Certain Regard. Iris Knobloch, […]

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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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It’s not every day you’d witness world leaders encounter a giant brain and muddy zombies in a deep, dark forest. But that’s just the surface of what directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson have conceived in their political […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Sasquatch Sunset . Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If there’s any major conflict in the lives of humans, it pales in comparison […]

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David and Nathan Zellner have been making films together since they were children. David and Nathan have been apart of the indie film world for quite some time, however, it was 2014’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter that really put them […]

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Fresh off its Sundance world premiere, David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset will likely put some pep in the spring season’s step! Their third feature, following Kumiko the Treasure Hunter and Damsel, explores the mythical creatures of the wilderness in […]

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