Reviews

[Tribeca Review] Check It

The Check It, like many other gangs, arrived out of necessity to protect their own. In the case of the Washington, D.C.-based gang which counts over 250 members...

[Review] Sworn Virgin

Laura Bispuri’s moving, fiery Sworn Virgin comes in a recent tradition of cinematic meditations on gender as a form of identity like Tomboy and All About My Mo...

[Tribeca Review] Little Boxes

With its picket-fence sameness and routine tedium making it a hot bed for deep-rooted repression -- at least as depicted in many a film -- the horrors of suburb...

[Review] A Hologram For The King

Even while it was in production, Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram for the King fostered a dual atmosphere of intrigue and questionability. After all, it was based off a ...

[Tribeca Review] Bugs

Somewhere between Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Food, Inc., at the intersection of culinary adventure and social justice, Nordic Food Lab’s head chef Ben Reade and l...

[Tribeca Review] Keep Quiet

Keep Quiet is a chilling and comprehensive documentary following the path to redemption – or a calculated political act – for Csanad Szegedi, a right-wing anti-...

[Tribeca Review] National Bird

Calling for a national conversation that we ought to be having on the use of lethal force, National Bird considers all sides of the program, from those pulling ...

[Review] Elvis & Nixon

It is the most requested image in the National Archives, likely because of the tantalizing possibility and cheerful incongruity it summons. Elvis ‘The King’ Pre...

[Review] Colby

The fallacy of escape is thinking it's possible to truly leave the past behind. You can travel thousands of miles away and put years in between, but the stuff f...

[Review] Hockney

One of the major revolutionaries of the 60's pop art movement, a widely influential theorist, and a beguiling, colorful personality in his own right, David Hoc...