Reviews

[Tribeca Review] Intramural

Opening with the fitting quote “I get knocked down, but I get up again" (attributed to Vince Lombardi instead of the British pop band Chumbawamba), Intramural i...

[Tribeca Review] 1971

Perhaps the lessons in history class have changed in the era of transparency, however, the 1971 burglary of an FBI field office in Media, PA seems to have been ...

[Tribeca Review] Every Secret Thing

Every Secret Thing effectively melds the sensibilities of its director Amy Berg (best known for her feature documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memph...

[Tribeca Review] Boulevard

An unexpected turn for director Dito Montiel, known for his portraits of rugged masculinity in the inner city, including his debut future A Guide to Recognizing...

[Review] Whitewash

The frozen, gray confines of a forest in Quebec become an unstable purgatory for hapless Thomas Haden Church in Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais' darkly comic Whitewash. ...

[Tribeca Review] Extraterrestrial

What is it about interstellar travel that seemingly halts an advanced species’ sense of sophistication? If Hollywood and the internet conspiracy cultists are to...

[Tribeca Review] Der Samurai

A strange man drags through the forest a meat-filled bag, its bloody contents all too visible through the clear plastic material. What seems like the introducti...

[Tribeca Review] In Your Eyes

The ubiquity of cell phones and the internet have made long-distance relationships, once an exercise in patience and delayed gratification, into something that ...

[Tribeca Review] An Honest Liar

Part of the reason I gravitate towards and often find documentary films more interesting than narrative ones are because the format allows filmmakers freedoms a...