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‘Vengeance’ Review: A Mostly Successful Comic Mystery From B.J. Novak [Tribeca]

June 12, 2022 9:25 pm

B.J. Novak’s feature directorial debut, “Vengeance,” does not begin like you would expect B.J. Novak’s feature directorial debut to begin. It’s an image out of a horror movie, a dying figure in a dar...

‘Breaking the Ice’ Review: Clara Stern’s Ice Hockey Drama Is A Focused But Minor Character Study [Tribeca]

Christian Gallichio

June 12, 2022 11:54 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

A minor but affecting character study about buried family trauma, Clara Stern’s feature-length narrative debut “Breaking the Ice” works well as both a sports drama — focusing on an Austrian minor-league women’...

‘Good Girl Jane’ Review: Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s Piercing Debut Tracks The Grooming Of A Young Teenage Girl [Tribeca]

Robert Daniels

June 12, 2022 11:18 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Set in the Fall of 2005, Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s piercing feature debut, “Good Girl Jane,” tracks the grooming of the title character (Rain Spencer), Jane, an outcast teenager enduring an endless summer that n...

‘American Dreamer’ Review: Peter Dinklage Can’t Save This Messy Comedic Drama [Tribeca]

Jason Bailey

June 12, 2022 10:55 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

“American Dreamer” is a mess of a movie, in which scenes of startling wit and emotional truth co-exist alongside entire subplots that are utterly inexplicable. It’s all over the damn place; its good ideas in n...

‘Aisha’ Review: Letitia Wright Stuns in a Moving Character Drama [Tribeca]

Jason Bailey

June 12, 2022 10:44 am

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Aisha Osagie wakes up early. She bathes and prays. She takes a long bus ride to a hair salon, where she does menial labor for minimal pay while making small talk with pleasant-enough white ladies, and then she...

Matt Reeves Says Ben Affleck’s Unmade Batman Film Was Action-Driven & “James Bond-ian”

Christopher Marc

June 11, 2022 1:38 pm

News

Ben Affleck’s tenure as the Batman may be over or ending, but maybe it’ll never end in the mind of wishful-thinking fans. Affleck is set to make his final appearance as Batman in “The Flash,” which will set up...

Gary Oldman Says He Was Originally Cast As General Grievous’ Voice In The ‘Star Wars’ Prequels

Christopher Marc

June 11, 2022 12:33 pm

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In the “Star Wars” universe, like any franchise, there are close-call casting decisions that don’t make the grade or simply go another way. Actress Jessica Henwick (“The Matrix Resurrections”), for example, lo...

‘Duke Nukem’: Legendary & ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators Team For Movie Based On Satirical Sci-Fi Action Video Game

Christopher Marc

June 11, 2022 11:50 am

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Beginning with movies like “Mortal Kombat” and “Super Mario Bros,” video game projects have fascinated Hollywood since the ’90s. While the genre has been a mixed bag quality-wise, there’s an argument to be mad...

Sony To Release Extended ’Spider-Man: No Way Home – The More Fun Stuff Version’ In Theaters On September 2

Christopher Marc

June 11, 2022 11:40 am

News

Following the massive success of the nostalgia-driven “Spider-Man: No Way Home”—$1.9 billion at the global box office, surpassing all previous ‘Spider-Man’ film outings even without playing in China—Sony is lo...

‘Of Medicine and Miracles’ Clip: Academy Award-Winner Ross Kauffman Follows The Story Of Cancer Pioneers & Survivors [Tribeca Exclusive]

Jamie Rogers

June 11, 2022 10:57 am

Festivals, News, Trailers

This weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival, Academy Award-winning documentarian Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”) debuts his newest documentary, “Of Medicine and Miracles,” to the world. The film tells paral...