One could argue the point behind Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra’s documentary A Suitable Girl is to give as unbiased a look at traditional arranged marriages in India as possible. At no point do Khurana and Mundhra judge, condemn, or…
Tribeca Review: Dog Years
It’s a rare thing to hear an audience’s collective heart break. It’s ever rarer to hear it in an audience comprised of New York film critics. I only had one such experience in 2016: it was the scene in Ken…
Tribeca Review: Shadowman
The ingenuity that saves Oren Jacoby’s documentary Shadowman from being a well-intentioned yet shallow puff piece is how it allows its audience to sink into the mythology of its subject before cruelly awakening them to its reality. The first half…
Tribeca Review: Sambá
We remember the great boxing films as much for the boxers as for the boxing itself, perhaps even more. What are the scenes we remember most vividly from Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980)? The relentlessly brutal fighting, yes, but what…
2017 Tribeca Film Review: Gilbert
If you don’t know his face, you’ll definitely know his voice. But what about his personality? Gilbert Gottfried has seen the typical comedian’s rise to fame, from his small start working clubs as a teen to making big breaks like…
2017 Tribeca Film Festival Presents the First Tribeca Games Festival
Now in it’s sixteenth year, the Tribeca Film Festival has been a staple in the film community, contributing to some of film’s finest filmmakers and ideas. In keeping with the festival’s mission to bring about new modes of storytelling, this…