The blue carpet rolled out on Saturday and many of the year’s best independent films and TV series were recognized in Santa Barbara, California. Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the 38th Independent Spirit Awards as it took home seven […]

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(The 2022 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 13-16 in lovely Middleburg, VA. Lead critic Chris Reed is in attendance and submits this movie review of Women Talking. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There are a lot […]

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The nominations for the 2022 Gotham Awards have been revealed. The nominations in 12 categories recognize independent/arthouse films and breakout TV from this year. The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan on Monday, November 28. Angelica […]

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Her first directorial venture since her 2012 documentary Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley dives into Me Too territory with her new drama, Women Talking. Based on the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, Polley assembles the cast of Rooney Mara, Jessie […]

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Following last week’s Main Slate lineup announcement, the New York Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year’s Spotlight section. The notable selection of world premieres includes Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, Martin Scorsese’s new rock documentary Personality Crisis: One Night […]

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The 47th annual Toronto International Film Festival is coming back. After a more desolate festival last year due to COVID, people are hoping for a resurgence of both critics and attendees as numerous festival favorites and world premieres will screen […]

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The time has come to recognize an aspect of nonfiction cinema that has been overlooked for too long. The nature of documentary, of course, is that the image is based in reality. But it has come to be axiomatic that […]

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What is so thrilling about Stories We Tell is not that the film ineffably expresses its themes, but rather how it directly confronts them.

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Beneath the quirky palimpsest, Take This Waltz is a profoundly moving film about the conflict between desire and responsibility, complacency and identity, that absolutely nails the emotional texture of marriage, commitment and need.

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