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‘The Beta Test’: Jim Cummings Tackles Douchebag Hollywood Agents In An Anxiety Horror About Being Canceled [Tribeca Review]

June 13, 2021 1:00 pm

Indie anxiety auteur Jim Cummings’ work is always trembling nervously with the hum or uneasy apprehension. His brilliant debut, “Thunder Road” throbbed with the cringe-y tension of a grieving divorcee policema...

‘Italian Studies’: Vanessa Kirby Is Fascinating To Watch In Adam Leon’s Dreamy & Compelling Mood Piece [Tribeca Review]

Nick Allen

June 12, 2021 9:30 pm

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Vanessa Kirby is fascinating to watch and follow in writer/director Adam Leon’s “Italian Studies,” a purposefully hazy but compelling survey of New York City and its young minds. The Academy Award nominee of “...

‘Roaring 20’s’ Manages Little More Than a Purr, Failing to Stitch Together Anthology Set-Pieces Into Something More [Tribeca Review]

Warren Cantrell

June 12, 2021 9:30 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Narrative-averse portmanteau films are a tough nut to crack, yet not impossible. Richard Linklater made a name for himself in 1990 by hovering over a collection of Austin 20-somethings doing nothing in particu...

Essie Davis Is Potent & Powerful In The Wrenching ‘The Justice Of Bunny King’ [Tribeca Review]

Jason Bailey

June 12, 2021 7:00 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Gaysorn Thavat makes an electrifying feature directorial debut in “The Justice of Bunny King,” crafting a vivid portrait of a woman trapped by a tragic combination of circumstances, injustices, and bad instinc...

‘Ascension’ Explores a Lost Generation of Humanity Within China’s 21st Century Boomtimes [Tribeca Review]

Warren Cantrell

June 12, 2021 6:45 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

One person assembles plastic bottle pumps, another paints areola on sex dolls, and a different individual takes a business etiquette class to learn the proper way to smile (one shows eight teeth…the top ones)....

‘Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain’ Excels With A Zest For Living, But Struggles With The Darkness [Tribeca Review]

Jason Bailey

June 11, 2021 10:30 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“What the fuck am I doin’ here?” asks Anthony Bourdain, via archival audio, early in Morgan Neville’s new documentary “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.” “I shall explain,” he cont...

’12 Mighty Orphans’ Gets Caught Somewhere Between Plucky Underdog Sports Film & Sentimental Biopic [Tribeca Review]

Andrew Crump

June 11, 2021 2:05 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Having spent most of my life in New England, where sports are the way of life and the Patriots hoard more cultural cachet than the Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, and maybe even the mayor combined, I have never unde...

‘7 Days’: A Sweet-Natured & Empathetic Rom-Com For The COVID Era [Tribeca Review]

Christian Gallichio

June 10, 2021 8:06 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Using the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as a backdrop for a quarantine-style romantic comedy, Roshan Sethi’s directorial debut, “7 Days,” which pushes two ideologically opposed young Indian-American char...

2020 Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Over Coronavirus Pandemic Concerns

Rodrigo Perez

March 12, 2020 9:36 pm

Festivals, News

Everything's canceled. No, it's not the online culture, it's the Coronavirus outbreak, dummy, which has quickly consumed all our lives. The SXSW Film Festival shuttered last week, WonderCon ...

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‘The Gasoline Thieves’: A Thriller With A Social Conscious [Tribeca Review]

Joe Blessing

May 9, 2019 6:10 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“The Gasoline Thieves,” (‘Huachicolero’), the debut film from Mexican director Edgar Nito Arrache, explores modern social realities in a very traditional narrative, an extremely pure distillation of a crime sto...

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