There has been no shortage of artistically strong films in 2025, which is why the critics at Hammer to Nail offer up such a great variety of titles in their respective Top 10 lists of the year. Our choices run […]

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Few American filmmakers have shown as consistent a dedication to portraying marginalized communities with dignity and complexity as Sean Baker. From his early collaboration with Shih-Ching Tsou on 2004’s Take Out which intimately captured the day-in-the-life of an undocumented Chinese […]

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The Sweet East was written by Nick Pinkerton and directed by Sean Price Williams. The film stars Talia Ryder, Simon Rex, Jacob Elordi, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Earl Cave and Rish Shah. The film follows Lillian (Talia Ryder) as […]

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(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Sweet East movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Sean Price Williams – known for his collaborations with Alex Ross Perry and the […]

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Editors note: Triangle of Sadness is now playing in theaters stateside courtesy of NEON. Below is our review from its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. (The 2022 Cannes Film Festival runs May 17-28, Our own Jack Schenker is […]

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As 2021 comes to a close, a battle is raging right now on “Film Twitter” (if you don’t know what that  is, consider yourself lucky) as critics and pundits “Best Of” lists drop online. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car continues to […]

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As 2021 dawned, we found ourselves as a nation more consumed by the political drama unfolding around us than any narrative created by filmmakers. Truth was, for a while, far stranger than fiction. Eventually, however, we returned to something resembling […]

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(Indie workhorse Jim Cummings’ newest film The Beta Test opens nationwide on Friday, November 5. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) I first met Jim Cummings in […]

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(The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. Here, Matt Delman gives a film review of Red Rocket, the latest film from Sean Baker. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? […]

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