Lav Diaz is one of cinema’s most uncompromising voices, crafting epic meditations on Filipino history, trauma, and identity that routinely stretch past the four, six, or even eight-hour mark. His films, including Melancholia (2008), Norte, the End of History (2013), […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Train Dreams movie review, it’s in theaters now and hits Netflix November 21! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With Train Dreams, the writing/directing duo of Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing) adapt […]

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(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his The Secret Agent movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The […]

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(The Tribeca Festival runs June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Matt Delman’s The Scout movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]

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(Check out Savina Petkova’s The Mastermind movie review. The film just had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Kelly Reichardt’s heartful heist movie, decisively named The Mastermind, is not ‘playing […]

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Clark's artistic interests are both the personal and the cosmic, a rare fusion in American film.

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