Reviews

[HotDocs Review] Hotel Dallas

Despite the name Hotel Dallas and general premise surrounding a replica of Southfork Ranch (where both the old and new Dallas series were filmed) built in Roman...

[Review] Keanu

The most important aspect of any comedy is whether or not it is funny. Like any movie in a specific and emotion-based genre (horror, romance, suspense, etc.) th...

[Review] The Man Who Knew Infinity

A bit character in Matt Brown's affecting biographical drama The Man Who Knew Infinity chants "Din, Din, Din, Gunga Din" a couple times in friendly jest as a re...

[Review] Viktoria

Loosely based on a stranger than fiction story of a Bulgarian baby born without a belly button and umbilical cord, the expansive Viktoria is part-political alle...

[Tribeca Review] Folk Hero & Funny Guy

The bond of male friendship is examined - and tested - in Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a short and sweet dramedy from multi-hyphenate Jeff Grace, who writes and d...

[Tribeca Review] The Pistol Shrimps

Returning to the form of feature-length documentary to chronicle a subculture and the people that take pleasure in it, Brent Hodge’s third feature The Pistol Sh...

[Tribeca Review] Adult Life Skills

As adorkable as it is, Adult Life Skills, like its lead Anna, never quite takes off. Approaching 30 and still heartbroken over the death of her brother, she rem...

[Review] Dough

Think of John Goldschmidt's latest film Dough (his first in the director's chair since 1987) as a cinematic peace pipe for race relations and religious zealots....

[Tribeca Review] The Ticket

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, which is one of the lessons that the protagonist at the heart of Ido Fluk’s moral thriller The Ticket learns...