★★★★ 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: 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
Tribeca 2025: The Best You Can
★★★★ Real-life married couple Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon just really love working together, huh? For the first time in twenty years, the duo return to the screen for an unconventional middled-age romance. Putting the age gap relationship under the microscope, director Michael J. Weithorn has a fresh energy in willing to approach these unsung … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: The Best You Can
Tribeca 2025: Twinless
★★★★★ Upon its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Twinless set the internet ablaze when fans recorded pivotal scenes and made it go viral. Subsequently, the film was yanked from the festival’s digital offering before further copyright infringement could occur. Finally getting a chance to experience this unique dark dramedy months removed from that aggravating … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Twinless
Tribeca 2025: Man Finds Tape
★★★★★ Creepy, atmospheric indie horror should be any given film festival’s cream of the crop. Man Finds Tape perfectly meets this criteria, establishing a trademark eerie mystery with a signature style evolved from the best in the found footage subgenre. This one is less Paranormal Activity than Late Night with the Devil or The Poughkeepsie … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Man Finds Tape