Armed with the knowledge that one of my favorite directors of all time, Tim Burton, would be getting a retrospective documentary was almost too exciting for words going into 2024's iteration of the Tribeca Film Festival. Burton's style as a creative was so unique that it would change the very fabric of filmmaking forevermore. Still … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: Tim Burton Docuseries
Tribeca 2024: Jazzy
★★★★ Filmmaker Morissa Maltz etched out her spiritual successor to previous film The Unknown Country over a six-year period, building out a movie for her young subject Jazzy, who plays a version of herself. Born of unused footage from that movie, this installment makes superstars of its little preteens. Going into Jazzy, I had minimal … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: Jazzy
Tribeca 2024: The Knife
★★★★ To say that racism and cops railroading the helpless citizens they are trying to protect are hot button topics right now would be a massive understatement. There is still ferocious anger lingering in the air, with so many turning on those meant to keep us safe. People who pervert their power want to twist … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: The Knife
Tribeca 2024: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
★★★★★ Its title being quite a mouthful says almost nothing of the delightful surprises housed just underneath the surface of deranged dark comedy, The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer. Collecting an all-star cast including John Magaro (Past Lives, Orange is the New Black), Britt Lower (Severance, Darkest … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
Tribeca 2024: Darkest Miriam
★★★★ Anytime executive producer Charlie Kaufman is involved in a production, even in the most minuscule of ways, one has to take notice. His films Anamolisa and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind rank amongst my favorites of all time, and this year's Orion and the Dark was a clear standout earlier this year. Now, … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: Darkest Miriam
Tribeca 2024: Presumed Innocent
Rarely are the television selections at Tribeca anything worth writing home about. In recent years, only FX's smash hit The Bear left any real mark on the industry as a whole. With Apple TV's mystery/crime adaptation Presumed Innocent and the pedigree of seasoned actor Jake Gyllenhaal, the television wing of this festival becomes revitalized in … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: Presumed Innocent
Tribeca 2024: The A-Frame
★★★★ Tribeca’s Midnight section blasts off into another dimension with gleeful abandon in writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder’s zany sci-fi horror flick, The A-Frame. Freaky visuals and the bold vision of its creator perfectly suit the simple, low-stakes premise. The implications, however, are nothing but simple: what would a cure for cancer mean for the world? … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: The A-Frame
Tribeca 2024: Black Table
(Written by Allison Brown) ★★★★ In riveting political documentary Black Table, co-directors John Antonio James and Bill Mack pose a complex question noted by one of their subjects: “what if a moment is a collection of stories?” A literal table, realistically several pushed together, in the Commons Dining Hall at 1990s Yale University becomes a … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: Black Table
Tribeca 2024: Boys Go to Jupiter
★★★★ Creative animator Julian Glander brings his unique sensibilities into the film world with a bizarre, collaborative kaleidoscope of his vibrant imagination. Boys Go to Jupiter is unlike any other animated film before it. Inspired by his Floridian roots, Glander has crafted a movie voiced by several of his close friends, having brought most of … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: Boys Go to Jupiter
Tribeca 2024: I’m Your Venus
★★★★ As an obsessive fan of all things RuPaul’s Drag Race and FX’s legendary drama series Pose, I am ashamed to say that I still have yet to watch 1990’s acclaimed cult hit, Paris is Burning. The unique documentary broke new ground for telling queer stories, with reverberations in LGBTQIA+ culture still felt to this … Continue reading Tribeca 2024: I’m Your Venus