Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, after which it traveled to other festivals such as TIFF (where M.J. O’Toole reviewed it) and then Sundance 2024 (where I reviewed it). […]

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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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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Mother of All Lies. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) To paraphrase Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s famous opening sentence in Anna Karenina, […]

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The major box-office successes of the year notwithstanding (we see you, “Barbenheimer”), 2023 saw many outstanding independent films come out to rival (or surpass) the quality of big-studio releases. Fortunately, in this 21st-century of ours, there are many theatrical distributors […]

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(The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) ran September 7-17 and HtN has tons of coverage! Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of The Mother of All Lies. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Why don’t you allow […]

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