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Tribeca Festival · 2017

Tribeca Festival 2017

Midnight

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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Devil's Gate

Review preview for Devil's Gate

For the first hour or so of its runtime, Devil's Gate smoulders with tension, piling on one horror after another as its spins out its central mystery.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Struggling to overcome a recent professional tragedy, an FBI agent relocates to a small town to investigate the disappearance of a woman and her young son.

(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2017; Director: Clay Staub; Writer: Peter Aperlo, Clay Staub; Stars: Milo Ventimiglia, Bridget Regan, Amanda Schull, Javier Botet, Shawn Ashmore, Jonathan Frakes, Spencer Drever, Adam Hurtig, Sarah Constible, Beverly Ndukwu, Scott Johnson, Will Woytowich, Jean-François Ferland, Jan Skene)

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Dumb: The Story Of Big Brother Magazine

The rise and fall of the irreverent, boundary-pushing Big Brother Magazine, whose taboo-breaking stunts and unapologetically crass humor spawned MTV’s Jackass and a generation of skaters.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Patrick O'Dell)

Hounds Of Love

When a young woman is abducted by a disturbed couple, she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2016; Director: Ben Young; Writer: Ben Young; Stars: Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry)

Psychopaths

Over the course of one excessively blood-soaked night, multiple serial killers’ paths cross, leaving a trail of bodies and begging the question: Which psychopath will live to see morning?

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Mickey Keating; Writer: Mickey Keating; Stars: Ashley Bell, James Landry Hébert, Mark Kassen, Angela Trimbur, Larry Fessenden, Jeremy Gardner, Sam Zimmerman)

Super Dark Times

Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kevin Phillips; Writer: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski; Stars: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Amy Hargreaves, Adea Lennox, Ethan Botwick, Philip H. Ashley, Justin Rose, Kortnee Simmons, Samantha Jones, Anni Krueger, Jeffrey Alan Solomon, Bettina Skye)

Tilt

Review preview for Tilt

Alexander Alexandrov's grimy cinematography shows us the dirt and the grit we have come to associate with working class Americans going off the rails, and applies it to well cared for suburban homes and cityscapes usually pictured as glamorous.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A documentary filmmaker whose wife is pregnant starts to lose his grip.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kasra Farahani; Writer: Kasra Farahani, Jason O'Leary; Stars: Joseph Cross, C.S. Lee, Kelvin Yu, Alexia Rasmussen, Jessy Hodges, Junes Zahdi, Billy Khoury, Michael Zakhar, Micheal Zakhar, Kyle Koromaldi)

Full review See: Interview with Kasra Farahani about Tilt