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Chris Reed @chrisreedfilm.bsky.social · 20h
How much did I love Hikari's RENTAL FAMILY? A lot. My @hammertonail.bsky.social review out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival will tell you why. #filmsky
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 2h
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania's latest THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB played the Middleburg Film Fest where Chris Reed saw it saying "will impress you even as it breaks your heart and inflames your mind."
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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
(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 The Voice of Hind Rajab movie review! Seen it?...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 1d
Brendan Fraser stars in director Hikari's fish-out-of-water dramedy RENTAL FAMILY. Chris Reed sings its praises of the film out of the Middleburg Film Fest...
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RENTAL FAMILY
(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 Rental Family movie review! Seen it? Join the ...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 2d
Richard Linklater has TWO very different but similar era films in theaters now. In NOUVELLE VAGUE, Chris Reed was très impressionné as he followed Linklater back in time to see how the French New Wave was spawned...
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NOUVELLE VAGUE
(The Middleburg Film Festival tan 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...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 3d
Kaitlyn Hardy spoke with filmmaker/interdisciplinary artist Emily Mkrtichian about her debut film THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT which Hardy says is "a film that continuously breaks the bounds of its own creation."
The film is own theaters now...
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A Conversation with Emily Mkrtichian (THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT)
It may be incongruous to characterize a film about war and destruction as “gentle,” or a film of loss and ethnic cleaning as “tender,” but Emily Mkrtichian’s debut feature There Was, There Was Not is ...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 4d
Following her recent interview with Crispin Glover, Jessica Baxter is back on that Crispin tip with this review of his recent film MR. K. It's in select theaters now via Music Box Films.
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MR. K
(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 Dut...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 6d
Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho's THE SECRET AGENT, winner of both the Best Actor and Best Director prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, played Middleburg Film Fest & Chris Reed singles out Wagner Moura's captivating performance...
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THE SECRET AGENT
(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 ...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 7d
Iranian director Jafar Panahi took home the top prize at Cannes with his latest, the thought provoking IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Chris Reed caught it at the Middleburg Film Fest and has this review...
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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 16-19 in Middleburg, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his It Was Just an Accident movie review! Seen it? Join...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 9d
The great Richard Linklater just keeps on making great films. His latest, BLUE MOON, stars Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley and Bobby Cannavale in the 1940s Broadway scene. It opens Friday and Chale Nafus spoke with Linklater about the production...
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A Conversation with Richard Linklater (BLUE MOON)
On the evening of March 31, 1943, the genre-revising Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opened at the St James Theater in Manhattan. Before the boisterous curtain calls, Lorenz Hart left the thea...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 10d
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS by filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason played #NYFF63 and M.J. O'Toole says "you’ll walk out feeling soothed and with a reminder not to take the important things for granted."
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THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) ran September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Love That Remains movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conv...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 11d
Editor at large Matt Delman is taken aback by Christian Petzold's MIROIRS NO. 3 which he saw at #NYFF63 saying "A master of subtlety, but not without ambition, Petzold crafts another delectable drama that prods at the human condition."
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MIROIRS NO. 3
(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check outMatt Delman’s Sirât movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN...
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Chris Reed @chrisreedfilm.bsky.social · 15d
My final review out of the 2025 @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social is of Ian Bell's WTO/99, over at @hammertonail.bsky.social #filmsky
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Filmmaker Ian Bell takes viewers on a trip back to 1999, the quaint time when protests against the World Trade Organization were dominating the news cycle, in his doc WTO/99. Chris Reed has his review fresh from the NEW/NEXT Film Fest
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WTO/99
(The New/Next Film Festival took place October 2-5 in Baltimore, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his WTO/99movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation...
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 15d
In news that would have chuffed my younger self beyond measure, I interviewed Crispín Glover about his new film and lots of other stuff!
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 15d
The GREAT Crispin Glover has a brand new film he's touring around the U.S. complete with a Q & A after the screening. Jessica Baxter spoke with him about his work, David Lynch and more!
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A Conversation with Crispin Glover (NO! YOU'RE WRONG. or: SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE
Many actors have added multi-hyphenates to their resumes, dipping into other facets of auteur filmmaking. But no one has done it quite like Crispin Hellion Glover. For that, and many other reasons, he...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 15d
Filmmaker Ian Bell takes viewers on a trip back to 1999, the quaint time when protests against the World Trade Organization were dominating the news cycle, in his doc WTO/99. Chris Reed has his review fresh from the NEW/NEXT Film Fest
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WTO/99
(The New/Next Film Festival took place October 2-5 in Baltimore, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his WTO/99movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 18d
The New/Next Film Festival took place October 2-5 in Baltimore, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT movie review from the fest!
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ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT
(The New/Next Film Festival took place October 2-5 in Baltimore, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his André Is an Idiot movie review! Seen it? Join the ...
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 23d
New review! If you have ever had any interest in Rocky Horror, you’re gonna love this doc!
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 21d
French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic continues to dig into her fascination with the perils of youth in THE ICE TOWER, starring Marion Cotillard. Chris Reed has this review, the film is in theaters today...
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THE ICE TOWER
(Check out Chris Reed’s The Ice Tower movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Ice Tower is French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s four...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 21d
Matt Delman says "If ‘audible gasp’ were a movie, it would be director Oliver Laxe’s SIRÂT." Voted top feature of Cannes by the Ioncinema critics poll, the film is playing #NYFF63
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SIRÂT
(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check outMatt Delman’s Sirât movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 23d
Jessica Baxter pounds on the castle door in her review of STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR, the documentary on the little indie that changed people's lives. In theaters now!
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STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR
(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror movie review, it’s in select theaters now! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If you’re reading thi...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 24d
Acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud's standalone yet interconnected OSLO STORIES TRILOGY won numerous awards on last years film festival circuit. jack Schenker spoke with the filmmaker about this huge undertaking...
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A Conversation with Dag Johan Haugerud (Oslo Stories Trilogy)
Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud is one of his country’s most influential directors and writers, having won numerous Amanda Awards and international recognition for films like I Belong and Bewar...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 24d
The great film journo Kent Jones is back with his second feature, LATE FAME starring Willem Dafoe. M.J. O'Toole has this review fresh from #NYFF63
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LATE FAME
(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Late Fame movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation wi...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 28d
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is out TODAY! Lead critic Chris Reed says...
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
(Check out Chris Reeds’s One Battle After Another movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, who explode...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 29d
Kon Ichikawa's 1959 WWII drama FIRES ON THE PLAIN was overlooked at the time but as Brad Cook finds out, it's a good thing #Criterion has propped it up on 4K Blu...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: FIRES ON THE PLAIN
(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week B...
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · Sep 22
At #TIFF50, lead critic Chris Reed spoke to filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho (TRAIN TO BUSAN) and his lead actor Park Jeong-min who plays a dual role in THE UGLY...
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A Conversation with Park Jeong-min & Yeon Sang-ho (THE UGLY)
South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) just premiered his latest movie, The Ugly (based on his graphic novel), at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where I reviewed it. Set in...
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