(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Mr. Kmovie review, it’s in select theaters now via Music Box Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) After over two decades of directing Dutch film and television, Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab makes her […]

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Nathan Silver is a New York City based filmmaker who has been working as a writer/director since 2009. His latest project Between The Temples is in theaters this weekend and is not only an excellent film, it is essential Jewish […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Between the Temples movie review, in theaters August 23. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A lyrical ode to love in all its mystifying wonder, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples […]

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After showing his star power in last year’s Triangle of Sadness, Harris Dickinson is bringing his daddy energy later this summer. The Beach Rats breakout stars in writer-director Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper, which had its world premiere at this year’s Sundance […]

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After a truly difficult few years, 2022 seemed like it had so much promise. While things overall are certainly “better,” there remains an existential feeling of impending doom. It’s weird too because ostensibly, for our purposes at HtN, movies in […]

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I probably don’t say enough how proud I am of the hard-working, diverse and brilliant writers we have here on staff and these lists both prove that. I could go through and praise each of them for very different reasons […]

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Well….it looks like everyone survived this year’s Fantastic Fest (unless you were cast in the ultra-violent South Korean bloodbath, Project Wolf Hunting). The heat outside was brutal and so was the madness on screen. With audiences returning back to Austin, […]

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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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My name is Rendy Jones (they/he) and I am / we are an independent film critic from Brooklyn, New York, operating my self-published outlet “Rendy Reviews” for a decade. This year’s Toronto International Film Festival trip was entirely different from […]

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The Fantastic Fest will be making its in-person return for the 2022 edition. The Austin-set festival will be (mainly) screening a variety of horror films from all over the world. It is scheduled to run from September 22 – 29 […]

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