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TIFF Docs 2025 Lineup: New Documentaries from Laura Poitras, Raoul Peck, Gianfranco Rosi, and More Among the Lauded Nonfiction Slate

M.J. O'Toole — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:47:13 +0000

The Toronto International Film Festival has just announced the lineup for its Docs section, featuring 23 titles from 18 countries and 16 World Premieres. The section will open with Oscar-winning director Ben Proudfoot’s The Eyes of Ghana, which follows the life […]

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WILD LIFE

Matt Delman — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:25:42 +0000

Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Wild Life which hits select theaters Friday, April 14 before streaming on Disney+ in May.Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The space in the title Wild Life is […]

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HAMMER TO NAIL’S BEST FILMS OF 2021 – Part 1

The Editorial Staff — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:40:08 +0000

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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THE RESCUE

Christopher Reed — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:02:33 +0000

(Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s The Rescue won the 2021 People’s Choice Award for Documentary at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. It’s in theaters now via National Geographic doc films. Like what you see here on Hammer to […]

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#OSCARS SO RIGHT: WHY “BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE” IS THE PRIZE TO KEEP AN EYE ON

Sat, 23 Feb 2019 18:43:27 +0000

Recently, Vanity Fair ran a piece declaring the Best Documentary Feature category of the Academy Awards a “haven for female filmmakers.” Indeed it’s true that, as the article stated, just in the past decade “women have directed or co-directed more […]

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FREE SOLO

Christopher Reed — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:35:27 +0000

Still, the filmmakers remind us that free soloists do, eventually, tend to die doing what they love, so let's hope there's no tragic sequel.

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