Another year has come and gone, and with it, our favorite in-person festival experience: the Tribeca Film Festival. Josh, Allison, and interns cast a wide net over many of the festival's debuts, releases, TV series, and even one anniversary screening that royally "fucked them up." Don't miss out as we run down our full festival … Continue reading Tribeca 2025 Wrap Up
Tribeca 2025: How to Train Your Dragon
★★★★★ Despite having only seen the Dreamworks originals once each in theaters, I was still optimistic for the company’s first foray into the live action remake arena. Seeing dragons interact with humans in the real world, built off identical mythology, has a certain appeal to it. Would Hiccup and Toothless live up to the lofty … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: How to Train Your Dragon
Tribeca 2025: It’s Dorothy
★★★★ A joyous, kaleidoscopic journey to Oz and back alongside its legendary heroine, It's Dorothy is an all-encompassing documentary that takes us down the yellowbrick road for iconic depictions of the timeless tale. As a personal Oz-obsessive since I was a child, this was one of my most anticipated movies of the festival. Thankfully, it … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: It’s Dorothy
Tribeca 2025: Tow
★★★★ Rose Byrne continues to prove she can quite literally flawlessly execute any given genre. Over the span of two decades, she has played a vulgar pop star, the daughter of a recently-deceased terrorist, a horrified mother, a frantic wife, an army medical doctor, and a duchess, among several many others. Now, Byrne gives one … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Tow
Tribeca 2025: Dog of God
★★★★ Latvian animation definitely has a specific type of flavor—though relatively new to Western audiences, last year, Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. At 2022's Tribeca Film Festival, underrated adult gem My Love Affair with Marriage unexpectedly became one of my favorite movies of the year. 2025's Tribeca brings another Latvian oddity along … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Dog of God
Tribeca 2025: Smoke
Carrying over many of the creatives behind Apple TV's riveting true crime thriller series Black Bird, they shift the gears from one world to the next with relative ease. Inspired by the podcast Firebug and based on true events, Smoke delivers another exciting starring vehicle for lead actor, Taron Egerton. Here, Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Smoke
Tribeca 2025: Requiem for a Dream 25th Anniversary
★★★★★ To kick off Tribeca's Reunions and Retrospectives screening of 2000's Requiem for a Dream, director Darren Aronofsky was presented with the prestigious "Made in NY" Award. After accepting it, Darren didn't have to say much to introduce this now-iconic drama, other than: "Requiem is about to fuck you up." No truer words could have … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Requiem for a Dream 25th Anniversary
Tribeca 2025: Sham
★★★★ Legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike returns for his latest, a gripping courtroom drama packed with intrigue and disturbing child abuse. What Miike manages to accomplish with aptly-named Sham is nothing short of extraordinary. It tells a compelling story with multiple viewpoints, a complex tapestry of media sensationalism and the power of truth. Who can … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Sham
Tribeca 2025: She Dances
★★★★ (Written by Allison Brown) If you’re looking for a more wholesome, emotionally grounded alternative to 2000’s Bring It On, Rick Gomez has you covered. Led by real-life father-daughter duo, Steve Zahn as Jason and Audrey Zahn in her feature debut as Claire, She Dances thoughtfully navigates grief and the inelegance of mending complex relationships … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: She Dances
Tribeca 2025: Our Hero, Balthazar
★★★★★ A school shooting put to film is rightfully incredibly controversial to land in a sensitive manner. Go too far in either direction, and run the risk of seriously offending a large percentage of viewers. Refusing to bend the knee to convention, this unique film takes the Nightcrawler approach in allowing its doomed scenario to … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Our Hero, Balthazar