The 2025 Academy Awards nominations were announced last week. We thought you’d like to know which ones have received coverage from us over the past year. Below you will find the complete list of nominees, and any titles that are […]

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The new movie Conclave, from German director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), tells the surprisingly gripping tale of what happens during a papal conclave three weeks after a pontiff’s death. Adapted from Robert Harris’ eponymous novel and […]

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(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival runs October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Conclave movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Every time a Pope dies, Catholics around the world no doubt find themselves both mourning the loss […]

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Josh O’Connor is on a surreal quest in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. The otherworldly drama had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes, as well as screened at TIFF and NYFF. In her fourth feature after 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro, […]

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It’s been a strange few years for the major North American film festivals. After starting off the year with a disappointing virtual Sundance, the 2022 SXSW film festival eagerly launched in person and was a huge success, helping to launch […]

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If there’s one film to look forward to in the summer, it’s Marcel The Shell With Shoes On. Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate’s animated mockumentary about a one-inch tall seashell is a feature-length adaptation of their short films where Slate […]

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(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, our “The Curbside Criterion” […]

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