This year’s Tribeca Film Festival is jam packed with a huge variety of films, many of which feature big name actors and directors, but many more from under the radar and up and coming directors. Here’s a quick look at four films, three of which are …Read more
True crime stories have always been popular, but in recent months the high profile successes of the Serial podcast and The Jinx on HBO have given the genre a more elevated cultural legitimacy. Part of the allure for both of those examples is the unse …Read more
Novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland makes a confident directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sleek, intelligent sci-fi thriller that explores the ramifications of artificial intelligence with far more depth and moral questioning than any film before …Read more
In director Christoph Hochhäusler’s thriller The Lies of the Victors, two investigative journalists try to unravel a conspiracy at the heart of Germany’s military-industrial complex. Compared to Hochhäusler’s previous films, The Lies of the Victors i …Read more
Most Christmas films fixate on a kind of frantic joyousness that’s foreign to most people’s real experience of the holiday. Far more authentic is the reserved melancholy that director Charles Poekel thoroughly explores in Christmas, Again. The film c …Read more
5 to 7 is a charmingly, if somewhat outlandish, old-fashioned film where there’s nothing more romantic than lighting a woman’s cigarette, where infidelity is carried out with a Gallic debonair and understanding, and where social obligations are organ …Read more
Man from Reno is an unexpected treat – a captivating neo-noir that resonates with the psychic weight of its genre forebears, while still retaining its own unique voice and full set of surprises. The story is set in San Francisco, but not the tech won …Read more
In Ow, the debut feature from director Yohei Suzuki, a mysterious orb throws a wrench into the lives of an average Japanese family. But in many ways, the orb simply reveals the extent to which the Japanese economy and life in general has stunted the …Read more
The Fool is a film on the inexhaustible subject of Russian corruption that wields its moral truths with the force of a sledgehammer. An ordinary man discovers a crack in the foundation of an old housing project and makes the mistake of trying to save …Read more
All children of divorce are caught in the pull of two different poles, but few face a choice as drastic as the children in Wild Life (Vie Sauvage). Based on a true story that played out in the French media, director Cedric Kahn’s film tells the story …Read more
