Festivals: Tribeca Reviews
Tribeca 2023 Review: BREAK THE GAME, Mental Health Undone Online
In Jane M. Wagner's first feature-length directorial work, the very public life of a speedrunning legend turns into an anatomy of mental breakdown.
Tribeca 2023 Review: CHASING CHASING AMY Chases Queer Representation
Sav Rodgers confronts the legacy of Kevin Smith's rom-com, intertwining a personal journey of self-discovery while venturing into the dark side behind the film.
Tribeca 2023 Review: SUITABLE FLESH, Body Swapping Lovecraft With A Super Sexy Twist
H.P. Lovecraft makes his way back to the silver screen in what is perhaps the sexiest of all adaptations of his work, director Joe Lynch's Suitable Flesh. Those of us raised on Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft adaptations of the 80s and...
Tribeca 2022 Review: AMERICAN PAIN Fuels American Dream For Unlikely Pharma Bros
Darren Foster's true crime documentary reveals the hidden and ridiculous side of the opioid crisis.
Tribeca 2022 Review: MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE, Animated Female Empowerment
Latvian-American animator Signe Baumane revisits her two short marriage stints and debunks the mythology of love in a semi-autobiographical feature film.
Tribeca 2022 Review: THE LOST WEEKEND: A LOVE STORY, Biography as a Footnote in Rock History
Directed by Eve Brandstein, Stuart Samuels, and Richard Kaufman, the documentary revisits an episode from rock 'n' roll history that came to be known as the Lost Weekend.
Tribeca 2022 Review: FAMILY DINNER Serves Up Grim Lessons
Pia Hierzegger, Michael Pink and Nina Katlein star in director Peter Hengl's horror film from Austria. Read the review; watch the trailer.
Tribeca 2021 Review: ULTRASOUND, Indie Sci-fi Keeps You Guessing Right Until The Very End
Heading home during a heavy rainstorm, Glen’s car breaks down. He spots a house nearby and finds help from a chummy yet odd middle-aged man, Arthur, and his much younger wife, Cyndi. After a couple drinks and a warm shower,...
Tribeca 2021 Review: LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT, Eerily Prescient, Outlandish Time Capsule
Director Nadia Szold reconstructs Larry Flynt's infamous run for presidential nomination from never-before-seen archival footage. And it's stranger than fiction.
Tribeca 2021 Review: THE KIDS, Legacy of Larry Clark's KIDS Undone
Director Eddie Martin's documentary about the making of Larry Clark's cult classic unearths collective trauma, exploitation and victimhood.
Tribeca 2021 Review: Family Dynamics Reach a Horrific Breaking Point in Horror WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING
As a powerful storm tears through town Melissa and her family seek shelter in their bathroom. When the storm passes they realize they are trapped inside Melissa thinks that it is something that she and her girlfriend Amy did the...
Tribeca 2021 Review: CREATION STORIES, Musical Biopic Becomes Hilarious Psychedelic Fable
Ewen Bremner, Leo Flanagan and Richard Jobson star in a drug-fueled biopic, directed by Nick Moran, about the founder of the label behind Oasis.
Tribeca 2021 Review: MY HEART CAN'T BEAT UNLESS YOU TELL IT TO, Vampire Horror, Family Drama
Patrick Fugit, Ingrid Sophie Schram and Owen Campbell star in a horror-thriller, directed by Jonathan Cuartas.
Tribeca 2021 Review: WEREWOLVES WITHIN, Horror-Comedy Done Gorily Right
“Good fences make good neighbors,” a long-dead, if still wise, American poet, Robert Frost, once said in probably his best-known, most popular poem, "Mending Walls." It’s a lesson only a few denizens of the fictional town of Beaverfield, Vermont in...
Tribeca 2021 Review: THE PHANTOM is a Cinematic True Crime Gem
With belching refinery towers against a setting sun being one of its singular widescreen images, Patrick Forbes cinematic and highly emotional film The Phantom, at times feels like a lost season of HBO's True Detective. The documentary covers the tragic case...
Tribeca 2021 Review: AGNES, Exorcism, Anger, Faith, and Sandwich Dissection
What does it mean to have faith? What does it mean to be driven insane? These two questions might come from very similar places in the human psyche. This is especially true for those with little power or agency over...
Review: INHERITANCE, Nobody's Getting Anything Substantial
Lily Collins, Simon Pegg and Connie Nielsen star in Vaughn Stein's mystery-drama.
Tribeca 2019 Dispatch: A VR Slate Both Impressive and Immersive
Tribeca has long been a leader when it comes to VR exhibition (well, long is a relative term in VR). The festival has launched such notable pieces as Arden's Wake, Rainbow Crow, and Pearl. As the industry transitions out of...
Tribeca 2019 Review: AAMIS (RAVENING), A Forbidden Romance Consumes Star-Crossed Lovers
Set in the far northeastern Indian state of Assam, Bhaskar Hazarika's sophomore feature Aamis (Ravening) is a film unlike anything you've ever seen. A forbidden love story between a man and a woman separated by perhaps a dozen years, several...
Tribeca 2019 Review: THE GASOLINE THIEVES, A Brutal And Tragic Coming-of-Age Film
The Gasoline Thieves (aka Huachicolero), the first feature-lenght film by Mexican director Edgar Nito, begins as a crime thriller, with a captivating nocturnal scene with little dialogue in which a pair of huachicoleros (one of them played by Pascacio López)...
