The Tribeca Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in New York City this spring! Taking place June 3-14, the festival will showcase 118 feature films, including 103 world premieres, alongside 86 shorts. Opening the festival on Wednesday, June 3 is the […]

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Richard Linklater’s career has been marked by great experimentation and variety, which makes him the perfect candidate to dramatize one of the seminal moments in film history: the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless. Starring a mostly […]

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

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Richard Linklater has been killing it on the festival circuit this year! Following the Berlinale premiere of his Lorenz Hart biopic Blue Moon (arriving October 17), he headed to the Cannes Film Festival with his ambitious retelling of the making […]

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My name is Rendy Jones (they/he) and I am / we are an independent film critic from Brooklyn, New York. My experience at this year’s SXSW was vastly different from my other years in attendance. This year I got that […]

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The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 7-17, and despite the ongoing Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, the event still promises to bring an exciting collection of filmmakers and stars (thanks to SAG waivers) to Canada’s most […]

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I recently spoke by phone with filmmaker Ry Russo-Young on the occasion of the release of her delightful new fourth feature, Before I Fall (here is my review). Her previous three films are Nobody Walks (2012) – nominated for a […]

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Even more so when the film suddenly transforms from something ordinary into a profoundly moving meditation on time, love and the meaning of life.

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