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After Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s EVERYTIME won the 2026 Cannes Un Certain Regard prize, it's been making the festival rounds with a recent stop at New/Next where Chris Reed saw it, sending this review...
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EVERYTIME - Hammer to Nail
(The New/Next Film Festival ran Oct 1-4 and HtN has tons of reviews coming your way like Chris Reed’s Everytime movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Austrian ...
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October 6, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Laura Poitras is back, partnering with co-director Rachel Lauren Mueller for THEY'RE HERE, a 25 min documentary they're calling a horror film detailing the events surrounding the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. Matt Delman has this review out of the NYFF
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THEY'RE HERE - Hammer to Nail
(The New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 25 through October 12 and HtN has tons of reviews coming your way like Matt Delman’s They’re Here movie review.) Laura Poitras is back with a 25 minut...
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October 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Brandon Kramer's HOLDING LIAT follows an American-Israeli family dealing with the kidnapping of relatives on Oct 7, 2023, by members of the terrorist organization Hamas. It's on VOD so a perfect time to revisit Chris Reed's interview
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A Conversation with Brandon Kramer (HOLDING LIAT) - Hammer to Nail
In his new documentary, Holding Liat, director Brandon Kramer follows an American-Israeli family in the middle of the worst crisis imaginable: the kidnapping of relatives on October 7, 2023, by member...
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October 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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The always intriguing Radu Jude's latest film, THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, reimagines previous interpretations to create "one of his softest, least pranksterish films that will make your heart ache" says Clara Curraro in her review out of TIFF
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THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s The Diary of a Ch...
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October 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's doc NAZA is a troubling yet insightful documentary surrounding the genocide being carried out by Israeli soldiers. Jonathan Marlow has this review...
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NAZA - Hammer to Nail
(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s NAZA movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A documentary can frustrate. A documentary can potentially motiva...
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October 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Robert Pattinson continues a year full of diverse and really odd roles in Lance Oppenheim's PRIMETIME. Anders Ljung calls it "lurid, occasionally hysterical and deliberately contaminated by the television culture it examines." In theaters now...
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PRIMETIME - Hammer to Nail
(Check out Anders Ljung’s Primetime movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is something almost perverse about Robert Pattinson spend...
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September 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Director Joe Wein's doc 76 DAYS ADRIFT recounts the story of sailor Steven Callahan who was lost at sea. But the film takes some unusual angles to get there says Anders Ljung. The film is available today on VOD...
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76 DAYS ADRIFT - Hammer to Nail
((Check out Anders Ljung’s 76 Days Adrift movie review, it’s available on VOD via Apple TV now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is an inherent intimacy to a surv...
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September 29, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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An active volcano in Sicily serves as both the background and subtext in director Irene Dionisio’s IDDA. M.J. O'Toole makes the trek in his review out of TIFF...
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IDDA - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Idda movie review ...
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September 28, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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If you love the band Pulp like Jessica Baxter loves Pulp, you'll want to read this lively interview she did with frontman Jarvis Cocker and Garth Jennings who made PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE? which is streaming on Mubi right now!
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A Conversation with Garth Jennings & Jarvis Cocker (PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE?) - Hammer to Nail
Pulp fans are a patient people. We’ve waited years between scant albums and tours. Their most recent album More, is only their 8th LP since they formed as teenagers in Sheffield, England in 1978. It w...
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September 27, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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The 2026 Camden International Film Festival ran September 17-20 and Lauren Wissot has this rundown of the always intriguing fest....
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CIFF 2026: Family Affairs - Hammer to Nail
Having spent over a decade and a half mining cinematic nonfiction gems on the festival beat, only a handful of doc fests remain on my bucket list (Thessaloniki, I’m available). Which is why it was a b...
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September 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Channing Tatum stars in writer/director Beth de Araújo's harrowing drama JOSEPHINE which recently premiered at TIFF ahead of its November wide release. Chris Reed says intriguing direction and solid performances make the film work...
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JOSEPHINE - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Josephine movie rev...
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September 25, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Jessica Baxter says Garth Jennings is the perfect choice to document the band Pulp’s story in PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE? which spans the band’s lifetime, which began 48 years ago in a working-class town in northern England." It hits VOD tomorrow!
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PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE? - Hammer to Nail
(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Pulp: What Do You Do for An Encore? movie review, it hits VOD Friday, September 25. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Garth Jennings remember...
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September 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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From #TIFF French director Hanaël El Yousfi makes a powerful feature debut with THE DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHA. Chris Reed says the film "is about survival, but even more it is about freedom"
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THE DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHAM - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s The Daughters of Ab...
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September 24, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Andrew Scott portrays British actor Ian Charleson whose life was cut tragically short in ELSINORE which Chris reed calls "a simultaneously heart-rending and inspiring affair." Review from #TIFF
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ELSINORE - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Elsinore movie revi...
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September 23, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Clara Cuccaro says writer/director/star Matt Barat's "performance as a schmucky “soft boy” millennial living in New York is a masterclass in low-stakes entitlement and delusion" in his film ANCHOR AWEIGH.
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ANCHORS AWEIGH - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Anchors Aweigh  m...
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September 22, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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THE SCOUT opens this Friday at Film Forum in NYC. Matt Delman’s had a fun chat with Director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila ahead of the films release...
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A Conversation with Paula Gonzalez-Nasser & Mimi Davila (THE SCOUT) - Hammer to Nail
Editor-at-large Matt Delman spoke with THE SCOUT writer-director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila about filming in the middle of NYC and blending life experiences into film. Check out his in...
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September 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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John Trengrove’s South African period piece THE SMELL OF APPLES premiered at #TIFF which is where lead critic Chris Reed spoke to him about the nuanced and timely film...
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A Conversation with John Trengrove (THE SMELL OF APPLES) - Hammer to Nail
In The Smell of Apples, South African director John Trengrove examines the dawning consciousness of an Afrikaner boy as he begins to realize the horrors of the apartheid system. An adaptation of the 1...
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September 21, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Chris Rock's MISTY GREEN features Rosalind Eleazar in an electrifying performance as a difficult actress on the verge of a comeback. Clara Cuccaro has this review out of the final day of #TIFF...
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MISTY GREEN - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Misty Green movi...
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September 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Mathilde Arcel won the Best Actress award at the 2026 Venice Film Festival for her starring role in the Golden Lion winning film WOMAN UNKNOWN. M.J. O'Toole has this review from the fest...
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WOMAN UNKNOWN - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 Venice Film Festival ran September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s Woman Unknown movie review. Seen it? Join ...
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September 19, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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The great Darlene Love gets the much deserved documentary treatment in Barry Avrich's DARLENE LOVE: I KNOW WHERE I’VE BEEN. Chris Reed has this review from #TIFF50
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DARLENE LOVE: I KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Darlene Love: I Kn...
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September 19, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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The great, nay brilliant(?) John Wilson has hit theaters with his quasi-doc THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE. Jonathan Marlow gets down to the nitty gritty in his review...
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THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE - Hammer to Nail
(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s The History of Concrete movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “The History of Concrete? That doesn’t sound v...
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September 18, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Matthew Rankin’s latest documentary, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY, asks a simple question: What if documentaries about politicians were fun? Clara Cuccaro has an answer for that in her review out of #TIFF
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Ladies and Gentl...
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September 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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A killer ensemble cast and a classic, lived-in quality make Noah Segan's THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK a solid crime drama. Chris Reed reviews out of #TIFF...
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THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK - Hammer to Nail
(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s The Only Living Pi...
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September 17, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Filipino experimentalist John Torres has #TIFF filmgoers shaking their heads in a good way with his slippery and wild sci-fi film THE REMOTES. Lé Baltar has this review....
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THE REMOTES - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 Venice Film Festival ran September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like Lé Baltar’s The Remotes movie review. Seen it? Join the c...
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September 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Jan Holoubek's WW2/Holocaust thriller WILD WILD EAST is very much a classic western set in a completely different space and time. The film is getting a ton of buzz out of TIFF and Chris Reed spoke with Holoubek about the film...
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A Conversation with Jan Holoubek (WILD WILD EAST) - Hammer to Nail
With his latest film, Wild Wild East, Polish director Jan Holoubek has combined the Western with a noirish thriller and thrown the mix into the middle of World War II. The year is 1943, and a mysterio...
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September 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM