(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of Kneecap. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom,” Michael Fassbender’s IRA fugitive repeatedly tells […]

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“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom.” You wouldn’t think at first such a patriotic quote would apply to a scrappy rap trio from Belfast, but that’s one of many surprises of Kneecap – the […]

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Celebrating its 40th year, the Sundance Film Festival attempts to regain its footing and retake its legacy in 2024 after a couple of Covid years and a sad sales market – especially for documentaries. However if you look back on […]

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Entertaining and moving, Being Frank is a wonderful tribute to a complicated man.

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Steve McQueen’s follow-up to one of the most astonishing cinematic debuts in recent memory is just as interested as 2008’s Hunger in the collision of the physical and the psychological, of how the fluttering of the mind drives and punishes the body.

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As much a tale of woe as an occasional display of the sublime, Jane Eyre is also a ghost story of sorts, one whose demons are not of the underworld but rather our own.

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After taking home an Oscar for her short film Wasp, writer/director Andrea Arnold made an equally assured leap to the feature realm with Red Road, which won the Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Her latest film, Fish […]

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