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Tom Hanks and Emma Watson Can’t Save ‘The Circle’ [Tribeca Review]

April 28, 2017 8:40 am

Based on Dave Eggers’ novel about the eponymous tech company, “The Circle” feels more like a designer’s mock-up than a fully formed product. Beautifully shot by Matthew Libatique with cool injections of The Cir...

Amy Ryan Amplifies The Quiet ‘Abundant Acreage Available’ [Tribeca Review]

Rodrigo Perez

April 27, 2017 4:15 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Small town life is poignantly examined in the modest Tribeca drama “Abundant Acreage Available.” A humanist narrative about family, faith, and grief, ‘Acreage’ is an intimate film with few outsized dramatic mom...

Christopher Abbott Steals The Show In The Intense Thriller ‘Sweet Virginia’ [Tribeca Review]

Ally Johnson

April 27, 2017 1:30 pm

News, Reviews

Christopher Abbott continues to glower his way through roles, all furrowed brow and electric intensity, but there are no complaints here. It’s his onscreen magnetism that makes much of “Sweet Virginia” work, a ...

Anger Is Still An Energy In John Lydon Doc ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ [Tribeca Review]

Chris Barsanti

April 27, 2017 11:40 am

News

Blisteringly caustic as ever, John Lydon nevertheless reveals himself as an occasionally sentimental sort in Tabbert Fiiller’s fitfully revelatory and charming documentary, “The Public Image Is Rotten,” screeni...

Tribeca Exclusive: Clip & Poster For The ‘Safe’-Like Documentary ‘The Sensitives’

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April 26, 2017 3:50 pm

News

The Tribeca Film Festival is still in full swing (it's long!), and one film that’s worth keeping an eye on is the documentary “The Sensitives,” which screens tonight. Directed by cinematographer-turned-helmer D...

The Insipid ‘The Clapper,’ About Fame & Halfwits, Is Hopeless [Tribeca Review]

Rodrigo Perez

April 26, 2017 3:30 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

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Given the artificiality of celebrity and Hollywood, the idea of a manufactured laugh track and canned applause is a pretty clever metaphor for the emptiness of fame. But a loose concept is not a movie if it’s n...

‘Blame’: 22-Year-Old Filmmaker Quinn Shephard Becomes One To Watch With Her Startling Debut [Tribeca Review]

Ally Johnson

April 26, 2017 1:10 pm

Festivals, Reviews

In “Blame,” the startlingly confident debut film by precocious 22-year-old Quinn Shephard, the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival receives its true breakout of the year, while also serving as a brutal reminder as to wh...

The Stirring ‘I Am Heath Ledger’ Frames The World Through The Lens Of An Artist [Tribeca Review]

Rodrigo Perez

April 24, 2017 3:25 pm

News, Reviews

When was the last time you thought to yourself, “gee, I can’t wait for a Spike TV documentary?” It’s not that Spike isn’t good at… erm, what they do for their audience—cable channel programming for male adults—...

Josephine Decker & Zefrey Throwell’s ‘Flames’ Captures The Burning Lights & Charred Embers Of Love [Tribeca Review]

Ally Johnson

April 24, 2017 9:25 am

Reviews

"Flames" co-directors Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell have created something truly unique with their new docudrama, a word and genre that typically should be weighed heavily before being written as a descr...

Lindsay Burdge Sparkles In The Delicious Psycho Sexual Thriller ‘Thirst Street’ [Tribeca Review]

Rodrigo Perez

April 23, 2017 3:03 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

To keep it indie 100 for a minute and hopefully not sound too obscure, if indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry was to Roman Polanski what his paranoiac feature “Queen Of Earth” was to Polanski's “The Tenant,” then d...

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