(Check out Ray Lobo’s review of Masking Threshold, in select theaters September 30th & Available on Digital October 7th via Drafthouse Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Masking Threshold is the result of a bizarre […]

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As 2021 comes to a close, a battle is raging right now on “Film Twitter” (if you don’t know what that  is, consider yourself lucky) as critics and pundits “Best Of” lists drop online. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car continues to […]

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Founded in 1980 by Robert Redford to promote the art and craft of filmmaking, the U.S. Film Festival, rebranded as the Sundance Film Festival in 1985, has long been a beacon for American independent cinema. Ever since then, the annual […]

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(Emerald Fennell’s rape-revenge film Promising Young Woman hits theaters and VOD in December via Focus Features. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) I can’t stop thinking about […]

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Recalling other films about fraught teen awakenings like Diary of a Teenage Girl and Me and You and Everyone We Know, Eighth Grade nevertheless charts its own course...

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The subtle moment encapsulates one of the central themes of the movie: that our technology is harming us and yet we continue to self-flagellate.

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