The film Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (which I reviewed out of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival) follows the fumbling misadventures of Nancy, a middle-aged widow who has never had an orgasm, as she works with a younger, male […]

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One of the biggest crowdpleasers from this year’s Sundance Film Festival is director Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande. Written by Katy Brand, Emma Thompson stars as a widowed, retired school teacher in her sixties who decides to […]

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In Jacinta (which I reviewed out of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival), director Jessica Earnshaw, making her feature-documentary debut, follows her twentysomething titular subject as she emerges from prison and falls back into the habits that landed her there in […]

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(Tran Quoc Bao’s feature debut, The Paper Tigers premieres May 7 in theaters and on VOD. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) In the age of […]

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Just before the start of this year’s SXSW, I spoke by Zoom with English director Ursula Macfarlane about her new documentary, The Lost Sons (which I also reviewed), premiering at the festival. The film follows the too-crazy-to-be-true story of Paul […]

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(Clea Duvall’s sophomore feature Happiest Season hit on Hulu on November 25th, 2020. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Talented multi-hyphenate Clea DuVall (The Intervention) has […]

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A sharply incisive work of investigative journalism, Stephen Maing's Crime + Punishment explores the harsh realities faced by police officers of color in New York City.

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Alas, the path to peace and harmony is a rocky one, though it's that journey that provides this enjoyably gentle comedy with not its only narrative trajectory, but much of its humor.

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