Winter Hymns

Look for this on the festival circuit in '26-'27. Really thoughtful handling of this material. Exceptional cast for low-budget feature.

Sam Van Hallgren

| 79 | The intense pressure and emotional endurance that a doctor is forced to endure on a daily basis. Dealing with terminally ill patients day in and day out. A very simple plot and all shot in one location. Some very good cinematography, there were a number of shots…

filmaddict24

6:30 pm I think Nathan Deming is probably the best local Wisconsin filmmaker. Excluding industry professionals like Orson Wells who were born in Wisconsin. This dude is just simply really damn good at making films. I’m impressed with how professional his work looks in the…

Late Movie Reviews

Big fan of this! Glad I caught it at the Wisconsin film festival. My dad is also a palliative care doctor, so it’s fascinating seeing what his work entailed. I love a movie that breathes and lets the actors perform, rather than using a lot of cuts to drive the scene. This…

Stephen Deming

not really my thing. pretty early on i started forming gripes with the DP. everything is filmed in a very flat and plain way, but it doesn’t look how real-life tools either. it’s a two and a half hour long film set in one room that mostly just people sitting and talking.…

cowboysam

Such a different viewing experience to watch something you helped make! Watching scenes you remember being on the other side of the camera for is kind of surreal. Incredibly grateful to have worked on this! And it was very good!

Colton Nash

White people are bad at healthcare, the movie. This was shot like a film school thesis. Ponderous and over directed. Les Misérables (2012) style up the nostrils shots for each monologue. Every racist trope you could imagine. Very uncomfortable watch.

ho11yhawk

Death and dying are so often treated as things we’re not supposed to talk about, but this film refuses that silence. It brings us into the quiet, intimate spaces where death is not abstract, but immediate and deeply human. Through this film, we see how death moves through…

Andrea Watkins

#MovieReview #WinterHymns 🍿🍿 (Out of 5) Way Too Long, Great Performances, A Great Test Real For A NEW Netflix Series Written, edited and directed by Nathan Deming, the film is 156 minutes long. 60 minutes too long. Long scenes with no dialogue. Long shots of facial…

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