There has been no shortage of artistically strong films in 2025, which is why the critics at Hammer to Nail offer up such a great variety of titles in their respective Top 10 lists of the year. Our choices run […]

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After working together on the polarizing, yet mindblowing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix are back together for the former’s fourth feature. Eddington, fresh off its world premiere at Cannes, is a Western set in 2020 during the […]

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Three years after his bewildering, anxiety-inducing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster is back with his fourth feature that addresses current events. His black-comedy/western Eddington is set to premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, which will run May 14-22. […]

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(Check out Bears Rebecca Fonté’s The People’s Joker movie review. The film had a fantastic festival run with a torrent of success and is in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For hundreds of years, […]

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Ari Aster’s newest nightmare from A24 is just around the corner! A trailer has just been released for his newest undertaking which he at one point described as a “four-hour nightmare comedy.” In Beau Is Afraid, Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix […]

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Editors Note: C’mon C’mon is now playing in theaters. Our review below is from the 2021 Middleburg Film Festival. (The Middleburg Film Festival ran October 14-17 in Middleburg, VA. Lead Critic Chris Reed was on hand, providing his usual excellent […]

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The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. There are 5 sections in the program: the Main Slate (with 32 features), Currents (15 features and 8 shorts programs), Spotlight (9 […]

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(Viktor Kossakovsky’s Gunda is in theaters now via Neon. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Gunda has just given birth when first we meet, her swollen […]

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More buddy comedy than thriller, Audiard’s latest flips Western genre conventions on its head.

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