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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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Showing Up, the latest collab between filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and actress Michelle Williams. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The films of Kelly Reichardt are thoughtful cinematic dramas that […]

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Three years after her 19th Century bromance First Cow, Kelly Reichardt is back with a new Portland-set drama from A24. Showing Up stars Michelle Williams as a struggling sculptor preparing for a major art show while nursing a wounded pigeon […]

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(The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. Here, Matt Delman gives a film review of The Power of the Dog, the latest film from Jane Campion. Like what you see here on […]

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(Indie film stalwart Dan Mirvish is back with the kooky 18 1/2. The film is currently making the festival rounds. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Director […]

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‘Tis the season for year end “Best Of” lists. Here’s Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s and Lead Critic Chris Reed’s… Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s Top Films of 2020 Though recently A24 has felt more like an e-commerce store than a movie studio due […]

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Reichardt has been lambasted before for her deliberate pacing, but here the details build a sense of momentum and progress. It’s easy to be sucked into a world that seems so distant, despite being in our own backyard only two hundred years ago.

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I recently spoke with director Kelly Reichardt by phone about her new film First Cow, which premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival (our Matt Delman reviewed it following the subsequent New York Film Festival) and is now finally rolling […]

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