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Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a film critic, filmmaker, and educator. A member of the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic, he is Managing Editor at Film Festival Today; lead film critic at Hammer to Nail; the host of the award-winning Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed, from Dragon Digital Media; and the author of Film Editing: Theory and Practice. In addition, he is one of the cohosts of The Fog of Truth, a podcast devoted to documentary cinema.

Top 10 from 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) @filmfesttoday

Check out my Top 10 (documentaries and fiction films) from this year’s TIFF at Film Festival Today: Top 5 Documentaries Top … More

3 Faces, American Dharma, Capernaum, documentaries, fiction films, Heartbound: A Different Kind of Love Story, If Beale Street Could Talk, Maiden, narratives, Screwball, That Time of Year, The Truth About Killer Robots, TIFF, TIFF 2018, Toronto International Film Festival, Woman at War

2 Reviews @filmfesttoday: “Bel Canto” and “Pick of the Litter”

Film Festival Today ran two reviews of mine today. Here they are: Bel Canto Pick of the Litter Enjoy!

Bel Canto, Film Festival Today, Pick of the Litter

New Bonus Episode of @fogoftruth: Documentaries from THE GUARDIAN

We are back (here is the link), with our second pre-Season 4 bonus episode. That season will launch on September … More

Charlie Phillips, documentaries, podcasts, The Fog of Truth, The Guardian

7 Reviews @filmfesttoday: “The Apparition,” “The Captain,” “The Happytime Murders,” “Juliet, Naked,” “Madeline’s Madeline,” “Searching” and “The Wife”

Over the past three weeks, Film Festival Today ran seven reviews of mine. Here they are: The Apparition The Captain The Happytime … More

Der Hauptmann, Film Festival Today, Juliet Naked, Madeline's Madeline, Searching, The Apparition, The Captain, The Happytime Murders, The Wife

@RoughlySpeaking on My Top 10 Films (or at Least 10 of My Favs)

Today, Dan Rodricks of The Baltimore Sun released an episode of his “Roughly Speaking” podcast in which I list, with great difficulty, … More

Back to the Future, Baltimore Sun, Best Years of Our Lives, Dan Rodricks, Do the Right Thing, High Noon, It's a Wonderful Life, Nine Lives, Roughly Speaking, Singin' in the Rain, Strangers on a Train, The Godfather, The Piano, Top 10 Films, Top 10 Movies

End-of-Summer @hammertonail Documentary Coverage

Over the course of August and into the start of September, Hammer to Nail ran 5 reviews of mine of … More

América, Calling All Earthlings, Crime + Punishment, Hammer to Nail, Ingrid, interview, interviews, Morrisa Maltz, Silence of Others, Stephen Maing, The Silence of Others, Three Identical Strangers

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2018 … Here Comes @hammertonail

In a week, both Matt Delman and I head to the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to provide coverage for … More

Hammer to Nail, TIFF, TIFF 2018, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival

New Bonus Episode of @fogoftruth: Filmmaker Steve James (from AFI DOCS)

Our first pre-Season 4 bonus episode is now up, and you can listen to it on iTunes, SoundCloud and/or Stitcher, … More

AFI DOCS, Bart Weiss, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, festivals, Fog of Truth, Steve James, Summre Garber, The Fog of Truth

End-of-Summer @hammertonail Narrative Fiction Coverage

Over the course of August, Hammer to Nail has run 5 reviews of mine of new narrative fiction films. Here are … More

Hammer to Nail, Nico 1988, Night Comes On, Summer of 84, Support the Girls, The Swan

4 Reviews @filmfesttoday: “BlacKkKlansman,” “Christopher Robin,” “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Meg”

Over the past two weeks, Film Festival Today ran four reviews of mine. Here they are: BlacKkKlansman Christopher Robin Crazy Rich Asians … More

BlacKkKlansman, Christopher Robin, Crazy Rich Asians, Film Festival Today, The Meg

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