Tribeca Festival — A–Z of films

There's a searing honesty and immediacy about the footage.

This consideration of multiple lives, rather than one constructed arc serves to underline the sense that each person is only a small cog turning in the bigger wheel of the machine.

Undoubtedly, a masterpiece, this three-and-a-half hour version puts body on the flesh of what was already a great movie.

This isn't just a film about sexual abuse and the culture of stigma and doubt that surrounds it. It's an examination of the wider issues around the vulnerability of children.

Deutch has great comic timing and completely convinces as the sort of fast talking, wise-cracking hustler who could pull this kind of thing off.

Barnett excels at capturing nuances of expression and action.

The finest film of the year so far.

What does happen is likely nothing at all like what you expected to happen.

This is one film that's really going to test the mettle of Wood's mainstream fanbase.

The action scenes here are well handled and there are some interesting observations about how technological developments have changed the nature of policing.

Meehl puts her animal subjects at ease and is relaxed enough with her human ones that they sometimes - Goldstein included - say a little bit more than they might have meant to.

A bittersweet vision of America barrelling down a two-lane road to nowhere.

Beautifully acted all round, Driveways is a small film with a big heart.

By avoiding serial cliches, director Joe Berlinger touches on a different level of revelation.

Ochipinti's film benefits from a strong documentary underpinning - with the lead actress saying that 70 per cent of what occurs is based on her own story at the film's Berlin screening - showing how strong cultural expectations like this can be.

The film works wonderfully as an introduction to this important fashion designer for those who never heard of him or connected his name to Seventies minimalist style.

House Of Hummingbird centres on a quiet yet never passive performance from Park, who draws us into Eun-hee's world as we watch her absorbing and processing the events going on around her.

This is a gem of a role and Peretti allows himself to be fully absorbed by it.

You might not think you're in the mood for buying, but his extravagant sales pitch is likely to win you over by the end.

This is a world of ballgowns, sequins and lace...but none of that diminishes the ability of its heroes to think clearly or take charge of their own fates.

There's a magical quality about this film that coalesces in Wallecan's perspectives on Memphis landscapes and the dance performances themselves.

There's a rare intelligence to this film, which explores issues around race, wealth, class, gender and what it means to be a real American in a nuanced, multifaceted way.

Grandma is neither sweet nor innocent: a hard smoking, confrontational battleaxe with, nonetheless a heart of gold.

Alex Holmes' documentary is brilliant.

The direction is workmanlike but well edited.

Everything comes to life under Herzog's gaze, but rarely has he revealed so much of himself directly.

Wang and Zhang are to be commended for fitting as much in as they do, even if it does mean the film roams about rather than having a single focus.

Not bad, not brilliant.

Wolf and his top-notch editor Keiko Deguchi build a picture of both a life consumed by news and the way that news has, in some ways, come to consume all our lives with its 24-hour cycle.

Finlay has a good eye for the details that help us connect to people and places.

There are some powerful moments in Skin, but however lasting some of its impacts the film isn't as deep as it hopes.

If the film has a message, it's that ordinary people need to be alert to these risks and work together to keep democracy free from corruption.

See Billy Crystal's name in a line-up like this and you probably expect wise-cracking comedy, but in fact this is a rare straight role for the actor and it illustrates what he's capable of when he really gets to flex his acting muscles.

Brilliantly composed, Stray Dolls finds beauty as well as ugliness in these desperate lives.

It unfolds in a way that defies expectations, finding hope and humanity in unexpected places.

What makes it stand out from its many followers is its deep affection for its subject.

There’s a lot of clever twists here, and plenty of knowing references to Snow White.

Nicole Taylor's quickfire script provides great material for the actors to work with .

We are left with the bare facts of Chelsea's actions and her elevation to iconic status, without any real perspective.

Is it possible to make an interesting film where only one man remembers The Beatles? Probably. Is this it? Probably not.