(Check out Chris Reed’s Arco movie review, it’s in theaters now via Neon. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Time travel films always force the viewer to decide how much they want to allow the inevitable narrative […]

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What is up Hammer to Nail readers. It’s me, Rendy Jones, back for another TIFF critic’s notebook. Unlike my previous years, this being my sixth, this one was rather packed and busier than ever. Partly because of the terrible ticketing […]

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Todd Haynes returns with an observation of how a national scandal is given the Hollywood treatment in his tenth feature, May December. Loosely based on the story of May Kay Letourneau, it stars Julianne Moore – in her fifth collaboration […]

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As summer is just around the corner, a Sundance hit is making its way to theaters. Theater Camp, co-directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman, draws upon the glorious chaos of the theatre process in the titular camp, which is […]

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Ingrid Goes West is by no means perfect. Much of the dialogue is a little too on the nose, and since we've seen these kinds of stories before, we struggle to discern the new angles that Spicer and company bring to the narrative.

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