After making stops at last year’s Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF, Francesco Sossai’s road trip comedy The Last One for the Road is ready to charm U.S. audiences in time for spring. It stars The Hand of God breakout Filippo Scotti […]
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Director Fergus Campbell just premiered Sparks, his debut feature film, at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). The movie stars Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade) as Cleo, a young woman out of time and out of place. Obsessed […]
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Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many of today’s notable auteurs, including Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Pedro Almodóvar, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Joachim Trier, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Michael Haneke, Luca Guadagnino, Richard Linklater, […]
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Get ready for the next wave of buzzworthy new cinema of 2026. The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 79th edition, which will take place May 12 through 23. The films are divided into sections, from the […]
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The debut feature from screenwriter Aidan West and director Gloria Mercer, A Safe Distance just premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). In the movie, we follow the increasingly wild adventures of a young […]
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Union County is a drama about the opioid epidemic that does something rare: it focuses on recovery rather than despair. Writer-director Adam Meeks’s feature debut follows Cody Parsons (Will Poulter), a young man in rural Ohio navigating a county-mandated drug […]
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(Check out Chris Reed’s Palestine ’36, movie review, the film is in theaters nationwide now Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) All European countries that were once (or still are) colonizers bear responsibility for the state […]
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Check out Chris Reed’s The Tallest Dwarf movie review, the film premieres on PBS Monday, April 6. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Those who stand outside what society considers normative usually face discrimination of some sort, […]
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One indie drama that made waves following its premieres at the 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival and NewFest was writer-director Elliot Tuttle’s Blue Film. While screening to much acclaim, Tuttle’s feature debut has also garnered controversy over its provocative and […]
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(Check out Frank Yan’s Living the Land movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, Huo Meng’s third […]
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