As the awards season approaches, studios are coordinating their efforts regarding the films they intend to promote for the 97th Academy Awards, and it appears that the best picture category is poised to be a sausage fest. While many features […]

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(The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) runs September 7-17 and HtN has tons of coverage coming your way! Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Evil Does Not Exist. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Smaller […]

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Following the global success of his Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ventured to a rural village just outside Tokyo to film – in secret – his newest drama. Evil Does Not Exist is considered a return to the director’s […]

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Editors Note: Past Lives opens theatrically this weekend in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand from there. Below is Matt Delman’s review from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. (The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 in and […]

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Over a decade before he made waves with his Oscar-winning sensation Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi made his sophomore feature film when he was still in film school at Tokyo University of the Arts. Never before seen in the U.S., […]

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With well over 100 feature films in this year’s program—close to a third of which are by first-time feature directors–this year’s Sundance Film Festival promises a slate full of a great variety both international and domestic (and that’s not counting […]

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Editors Note: Drive My Car is now nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best International film. It’s currently playing in theaters nationwide. Below is our review from the 2021 New York Film […]

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(Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle is in theaters now via GKIDS Films so check out Jack Schenker’s movie review of Belle . Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Belle, the […]

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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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As 2021 dawned, we found ourselves as a nation more consumed by the political drama unfolding around us than any narrative created by filmmakers. Truth was, for a while, far stranger than fiction. Eventually, however, we returned to something resembling […]

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