First Reformed Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/first-reformed/ What to Watch Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:20:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png First Reformed Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/first-reformed/ 32 32 SEVEN VEILS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/seven-veils/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:20:23 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52746

(Check out Chris Reed’s Seven Veils movie review. The film is playing now in theaters via Elevation Pictures. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The work of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (Guest of Honour) is often complex […]

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]]> WILDCAT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/wildcat-2/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:39:42 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40432 Maya Hawke as Flannery O'Connor in Ethan Hawke's WILDCAT

(The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) ran September 7-17 and HtN has tons of coverage from the fest! Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of Wildcat. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Whenever one reads the fiction […]

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]]> FIRST REFORMED https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/first-reformed/ Fri, 04 May 2018 16:46:16 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29558

Though occasionally almost too austere for its own good, and bleak as hell, First Reformed is a carefully composed and constructed film that should probably be seen more than once, with cinematic rewards aplenty for those open to the Word of Schrader.

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]]> A Conversation with Michael Tully (DON’T LEAVE HOME) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/michael-tully/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:35:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29468 I met with filmmaker Michael Tully (the former editor of this site), on Friday, March 16, at SXSW 2018, to discuss his latest movie, Don’t Leave Home (reviewed by Don Simpson), which premiered at the festival. The film, a disturbing […]

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]]> MATT DELMAN’S 2017 TIFF WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/delman-2017-tiff-wrap/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:22:24 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28519 Although no single film jumped out as much as Moonlight did last year, A24 continues to be the top dog at the moment, having 5 films play the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, which is destined […]

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