Tribeca Festival — A–Z of films

The long wordless opening of 2001 remains one of the most beautiful sequences on film.

The voyeuristic experience of watching their unpleasant exhibitionism becomes a very alienating experience and as a result it is increasingly difficult to engage with, or indeed care about, any of the characters.

The runt of a bountiful litter.

Easily the best comedy I saw in 2008 and the first I can remember in years that I’ve wanted to immediately watch again.

There are some nice set pieces here and there but, like the air on Terra, everything feels stodgier than normal.

Roache acquits himself well, but the rest of the cast clearly struggle with the awful dialogue.

Viewer expectations, like that of the immigrants, are confounded as the hard-hitting consequences of this bleak act of humanity play out.

Taken as a straightforward comic horror movie, this feels too derivative and clichéd. Taken as homage or pastiche, it's not nearly funny, knowing or camp enough.

Aside from a slight flabbiness in some areas, Kechiche is to be praised for exploring the nature of change on a personal and a community level - and packing the result with some emotional wallop.

Dwyer has taken this cinematically uncharted landscape and, like the convict runners of old, transported to it all manner of unsavoury foreign elements.

This film is adapted from a stage play by Eugene O'Brien and has made the transition to screen very smoothly.

The trouble is that the action never quite gels as it should.

Once the walls start to move, there's barely a moment to catch your breath as sharp editing, clever camera angles and good use of sound, squeeze the tension of every moment.

If only more sport were filmed like this, it might gain a whole new audience.

Although this is, in part, a darkly comic exploration of man's inhumanity to man, there is a current of optimism, flowing like the artwork, beneath the story.

While the film isn’t a complete success it’s still a powerful, heartfelt take on the cruelties of which people can be capable – and the courage and nobility they can display in their determination to find out the truth.

Utterly bonkers but brimming with ingenuity.

It is the unspoken experience, the agony that is Iraq, which hangs so heavy in the vacuum between what you see and what you imagine.

It is frequently not what you see but what you hear which holds the horror.

An intimate venue coupled with incredibly energetic and heart-felt performances from Reed, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string and brass section to die for make for a moving experience.

This little gem has a narrative structure that Hollywood movies seem to have forgotten how to employ - all the ingredients for a classic thriller are here.

Enjoyable, adventurous and unpredictable.

Its sense of humour and verve are enough to commend it to any viewer.

The glorious sight of a flying nun, an image Korine has said was one of his inspirations for the film, is both a moving and a joyous one.

One man's quirky, hilarious, and ultimately moving examination of where he has come from, and what he has lost along the way.

While there is nothing wrong with a fly-on-the-wall attitude to documentary making, more facts and a little number-crunching would go a long way to bolstering Gaja’s argument.

This is what Westerns, and movies as a whole, are all about.

Sikumi is certainly stark, and yet there is room even in this cold, austere backdrop for the warmth of the human spirit.

Although filling the watcher with the same sort of outrage that inspired the women to stand up and be counted, this is, at heart, a testimony to the power of solidarity and sisterhood through a single purpose.

With its simple plot and gentle pacing, Quiet Chaos relies on character and performance to keep viewers interested, and for the most part it pulls it off well.

Both gripping morality tale and satisfying thriller.

Always engrossing, at times decidedly uncomfortable viewing, Savage Grace is accomplished cinematic storytelling that will stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

There is no justice in poverty and there is no justice here.

Meadows' film oozes quality. The scripting feels natural and, thanks to long takes, Meadows is able to get the best performances from his young leads.

As the shiny roadsters perform death defying stunts to get to the chequered flag, I defy the greenest carphobe not to feel their pulse racing.

Morris has certainly achieved a gloss that Kennedy's previous work lacked but at a cost to the factual content.

Energetic, immediate and defiantly hopeful.

What really hold the attention in this playful comedy are the central perfomances.

A staggering and petrifying insight into the very real dangers faced by Al-Daradji and his crew.

Worlds Apart is an assured, confident little film which takes a nuanced approach to a complex subject.

The content and the editing of this documentary are sharp... Poignant and a call to action.

It is as though the cast and scriptwriters are constantly nodding to one another and admiring their own cleverness.