Reviews

[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...

[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 ...