With the Palestinian-Israeli conflict making headlines now more than ever, one film that will surely resonate is All That’s Left of You, Jordan’s official submission for international feature film at the 98th Academy Awards. Cherien Dabis (Amreeka, May in the […]

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What is up Hammer to Nail readers. It’s me, Rendy Jones, back for another TIFF critic’s notebook. Unlike my previous years, this being my sixth, this one was rather packed and busier than ever. Partly because of the terrible ticketing […]

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There’s so much uncertainty in the world and strangely, as it always somehow seems to, the Sundance Film Festival reflects that. On a surface level, there’s the fact that no one knows where the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be […]

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(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out Matt Delman’s Poor Things movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The enjoyably eccentric Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has a growing body of work […]

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A staple of the upper west side, the New York Film Festival has the best films of the year. So it’s no surprise that this was the second straight year of record ticket sales. With most shows selling out packed […]

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Five years after working together on The Favourite, director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) and star Emma Stone reunite for a more jaw-dropping British tale. Poor Things is Lanthimos’s first feature in five years and opens in theaters early this […]

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Alessandro Borghi has been working in television and film since 2006. As a teenager he had dreams to be a boxer while studying Econ. From there he watched the film Raging Bull, which changed his life forever. He has starred […]

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If your idea of a rewarding time at the movies is a symphonic drama that aches with the blood, sweat and tears of real life while simultaneously upholding the finest traditions of opera, of theater, of poetry, of literature, look no further than Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret.

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