Michael Angarano is back in the director’s seat for his sophomore feature. Sacramento is a coming-of-age road trip comedy that stars Angarano and Michael Cera as old friends Rickey and Glenn who take an impromptu road trip to the titular […]

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The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. What follows are recommendations of what to see (5 apiece) from critics Melanie Addington and M.J. O’Toole, lead critic Christopher Llewellyn Reed, and editor-at-large […]

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The Tribeca Festival has announced its starry 2024 lineup. It will be take place June 5 – 16. Opening the festival is the documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, which captures fashion designer von Furstenberg’s impact as a feminist […]

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Following their main slate lineup announcement last week, the Cannes Film Festival has now announced the lineups for its 2024 Directors’ Fortnight, Critics Week, and ACID Lineups. Notable standouts include India Donaldson’s Sundance darling Good One (read our ND/NF review), […]

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Dustin Guy Defa has been a filmmaker for over a decade now and his entire career has been recently added to the Criterion Collection. The collection is streaming on the Criterion Channel right now and includes 9 films short and […]

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Founded in 2002 in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on downtown Manhattan, the Tribeca Film Festival spent its first few two decades running at the end of April. In 2021, the festival moved to June as a response […]

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It isn’t always easy going back home. Even if you have it all on the surface, there might be some personal baggage you are carrying. That seems to be the case for Eric (Michael Cera) in The Adults. Cera reteams […]

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(The 2021 Sundance Film Festival runs January 28- February 3, all virtually as well as with drive-ins sprinkled around the U.S.. Hammer to Nail is bringing you a ton of coverage so, keep coming back! Like what you see here on Hammer […]

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I met with director Janicza Bravo on Friday, May 5, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, where we discussed her first feature, the experimental narrative Lemon, which premiered at Sundance (and was reviewed at SXSW by our very own Don […]

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Though at first the emotional stakes may seem low, the more one thinks about the movie the more its profound truths resonate beyond its narrative limits.

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