“You know, you’re Irish, so when I’m saying Dédalus you’re probably thinking Joyce.” It’s early December in Avelino and Arnaud Desplechin isn’t really talking  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The French director’s latest, Spectateurs!, reintroduces the […]

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Australian director Jennifer Kent directed her first feature, The Babadook, in 2014. That supernatural horror film proved extremely effective at externalizing both grief and a mother’s worst fears about parenting. Starring Essie Davis (Babyteeth) as that mom, Amelia, a widow […]

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(The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) runs September 7-17 and HtN has tons of coverage coming your way! Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of The Peasants. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) So much of life […]

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Following last week’s Main Slate lineup announcement, the New York Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year’s Spotlight section. The notable selection of world premieres includes Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, Martin Scorsese’s new rock documentary Personality Crisis: One Night […]

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Stellan Skarsgård has been an actor for over 50 years. Most of his early roles were on the stage or in television programs in Sweden. Skarsgård, now 70 years old, has worked with great auteurs such as Denis Villeneuve, David […]

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Mike S. Ryan’s very biased 25 fave low budget American Indies of the ‘10 Decade. 1. Moonlight-Barry Jenkins 2. Meek’s Cutoff/Certain Woman– Kelly Reichardt 3. The Rider-Chloe Zhao 4. The Fits– Anna Rose Holmer 5. It Felt Like Love– Eliza […]

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I met with Norwegian director Maria Sødahl on Sunday, September 8, 2019, at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss  Hope (which I also reviewed), her first feature since the 2010 Limbo. Joining us for the conversation were her […]

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While most have been forgotten, Nietzschka Keene’s Iceland-set The Juniper Tree has re-surfaced thanks to both a new restoration by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Television Research in collaboration with the Film Foundation and a decades-overdue premiere theatrical run at Metrograph in New York.

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Despite losing some momentum early in the second half, the film sinks its teeth into the viewer’s flesh and doesn’t let go. Vox Lux a triumph that we’ll be thinking and talking about for a long time.

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