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Tribeca Festival · 2020

Tribeca Festival 2020

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5 films · 3 reviews

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Becky

Mourning her mother’s death, teenaged Becky doesn’t think she could possibly have a worse time during a lake house trip with her dad. The unexpected arrival of four escaped convicts is about to prove she can.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion; Writer: Nick Morris, Lane Skye, Ruckus Skye; Stars: Joel McHale, Kevin James, Lulu Wilson, Amanda Brugel, Robert Maillet, Ryan McDonald, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, James McDougall, Mike Dara, Isaiah Rockcliffe, Chandra Michaels, Markus Radan, Charles Boyland, Andrew Siwik, Chelsea Barnes)

World premiere

Boys From County Hell

For decades, the residents of Ireland’s Six Mile Hill have traded urban legends about an ancient blood-craving ghoul that sleeps beneath their land. Bad news for the locals: A father-and-son team of road workers have woken it up.

(Country: UK, Ireland; Year: 2020; Director: Chris Baugh; Writer: Chris Baugh, Chris Baugh, Brendan Mullin; Stars: Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough, John Lynch, Fra Fee, Morgan C. Jones, Andrea Irvine, Robert Nairne, Marty Maguire, Kathy Monahan, Emma Paetz, Jordan Renzo, David Pearse, Stella McCusker)

World premiere

The Dark And The Wicked

Review preview for The Dark And The Wicked

What would it mean to live in a world where damnation was a very real and tangible prospect and yet, because of one's immutable nature, nothing one did could make a difference to one's fate?

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Bryan Bertino; Writer: Bryan Bertino; Stars: Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Xander Berkeley, Lynn Andrews, Julie Oliver-Touchstone, Tom Nowicki, Ella Ballentine, Mel Cowan, Mindy Raymond, Chris Doubek, Michael Zagst, Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Xander Berkeley, Lynn Andrews)

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World premiere

Honeydew

Review preview for Honeydew

A species of all-American folk horror bound up with Biblical fundamentalism and the tainted bounty of the land.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
Unfortunately for a young couple on a camping trip, their car broke down in the middle of the night. Even more unfortunate: In hopes of using a phone for help, they’ve stepped foot inside a house of, to put it lightly, very strange horrors.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Devereux Milburn; Writer: Dan Kennedy, Devereux Milburn, Devereux Milburn; Stars: Sawyer Spielberg, Malin Barr, Barbara Kingsley, Stephen D'Ambrose, Jamie Bradley, Joshua Patrick Dudley, Rachel Alexandria Arnold, William Aydelott, Shauna Mizula, Sawyer Spielberg, Malin Barr, Barbara Kingsley, Stephen D'Ambrose, Jamie Bradley, Joshua Patrick Dudley)

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World premiere

Sputnik

Review preview for Sputnik

There's a strong flavour of Quatermass about this deliciously dark first offering from Egor Abramenko.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn’t returned home alone.

(Country: Russia; Year: 2020; Director: Egor Abramenko; Writer: Oleg Malovichko, Andrei Zolotarev; Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev, Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev)

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