(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of And So It Begins. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) It’s tough to make a winning election-based documentary from the point of view […]

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The Sundance Institute has just announced the lineup for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, which is making its in-person return to Park City, Utah. The section for this year includes Competition titles (Narrative & Documentary), the Premiere section, and Midnight […]

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‘Tis the season for year end “Best Of” lists. Here’s Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s and Lead Critic Chris Reed’s… Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s Top Films of 2020 Though recently A24 has felt more like an e-commerce store than a movie studio due […]

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I met with documentary director Ramona Diaz on Friday, May 5, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, to discuss her most recent film, Motherland (reviewed here), which premiered at Sundance. It tells the story of the “world’s busiest maternity ward“: […]

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This is truly a remarkable work of documentary storytelling, raw, intimate and subsequently quite profound.

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