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Tribeca Festival · 2024

Tribeca Festival 2024

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20 films · 5 reviews

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All That We Love

A woman finds herself at a crossroads following the death of her family dog, and experiences a mid-life awakening.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Yen Tan; Writer: Yen Tan, Clay Liford; Stars: Margaret Cho, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kenneth Choi, Alice Lee, Atsuko Okatsuka, Missi Pyle, Devon Bostick)

Bad Shabbos

An accidental death - or perhaps a murder - threatens to spoil two couples' Shabbat dinner plans.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Robbins; Writer: Zack Weiner, Daniel Robbins; Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David Paymer, Meghan Leathers)

Bang Bang

A former prizefighter finds himself facing a new challenge when his estranged daughter unexpectedly drops her troublemaking teenage son off at his doorstep.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Vincent Grashaw; Writer: Will Janowitz; Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Plummer, Kevin Corrigan, Andrew Liner, Nina Arianda, Daniella Pineda, Erica Gimpel)

Between The Temples

Review preview for Between The Temples

Filled with awkwardness and tension, the film acts as a spotlight for all the actors.

Jeremy Mathews · 3.5 out of 5
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult bat mitzvah student.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Nathan Silver; Writer: Nathan Silver, C Mason Wells; Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel, Dolly De Leon, Madeline Weinstein, Matthew Shear, Jaden Waldman, Jacob Morrell, Laurent Rejto)

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Crossing

A retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.

(Country: Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia; Year: 2024; Director: Levan Akin; Writer: Levan Akin; Stars: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli)

Daddio

On a late night drive from JFK Airport to Midtown Manhattan, a young woman and her cabbie form an unexpected bond.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Christy Hall; Writer: Christy Hall; Stars: Jean-Luc De Fanti, Max Work, Kostas Tsoukalas, Christopher Donnelly)

The Damned

Review preview for The Damned

A deep understanding of the period and cultural context gives it a weight of authenticity.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A young widow, faces an impossible choice when a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing village during a cruel winter. With their food supplies dwindling, Eva and her town must decide whether to rescue the shipwrecked sailors or let them perish to ensure their own survival.

(Country: UK, Iceland, Ireland, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Thordur Palsson; Writer: Jamie Hannigan; Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole)

Full review See: Interview with Thordur Palsson about The Damned

The Everything Pot

A hastily chosen wedding gift causes complications.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sherise Dorf; Writer: Sherise Dorf; Stars: Lisa Edelstein, James Wolk, Gina Torres, Erik Griffin, Delaney Rowe, Deja Monique Cruz)

Firebrand

Review preview for Firebrand

Handsomely mounted and costumed with enough sparks and pace to quicken the interest and heighten the senses.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
A dramatisation of the marriage between King Henry VIII of England and Catherine Parr.

(Year: 2023; Director: Karim Aïnouz; Writer: Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth, based on the novel The Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle; Stars: Alicia Vikander, Eddie Marsan, Jude Law, Sam Riley, Ruby Bentall, Erin Doherty)

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Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go

Hannah Einbinder is best known for her Emmy-nominated starring role as Ava in Hacks, but her first love is stand-up comedy. This is her first ever standup special.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sandi Honig; Writer: Hannah Einbinder; Stars: Hannah Einbinder)

In The Summers

Review preview for In The Summers

The characters speak naturally about the things in their life, and the film trusts us to piece together the essential information.

Jeremy Mathews · 4.5 out of 5
On a journey that spans across the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio; Writer: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio; Stars: Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Leslie Grace, Emma Ramos, Sharlene Cruz, Luciana Elisa Quinonez, Dreya Castillo, Allison Salinas, Kimaya Thais, Gabriella Surodjawan, Indigo Montez, Shawn Cody Calvert, Natay Carroll, Julian Cavett)

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Lake George

Tasked by mobsters with putting an end to Phyllis’ life, Don is unable to pull the trigger, and instead the two set off on a road trip that evolves into something much more.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jeffrey Reiner; Writer: Tod Campbell; Stars: Shea Whigham, Carrie Coon, Glenn Fleshler, Max Casella)

McVeigh

Review preview for McVeigh

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Over days and nights, McVeigh eats, sleeps, watches the news, meets a girl… all while inside his mind brews an unthinkable plan that will forever change the collective American psyche.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mike Ott; Writer: Mike Ott, Alex Gioulakis; Stars: Alfie Allen, Brett Gelman, Ashley Benson, Anthony Carrigan, Tracy Letts)

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Memes & Nightmares

The true currency of our digital age isn’t rooted in crypto but instead a person’s ability to fire off a meme funny enough to take the world by storm.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Charles Todd, Matt Mitchener; Writer: Matt Mitchener; Stars: Josiah Johnson, Jamel Johnson, Mero, Darius Miles, JR Smith, Jelani McCoy)

A Mistake

surgeon, cover-up, surgical error, hospital

(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2024; Director: Christine Jeffs; Writer: Christine Jeffs; Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Simon McBurney, Mickey Sumner, Rena Owen)

Nuked

A relationship podcaster is celebrating her 40th birthday alongside her husband, with large quantities of cannabis, when everyone gets a sudden phone alert that a nuclear missile is headed directly toward them.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Deena Kashper; Writer: Deena Kashper; Stars: Justin Bartha, Anna Camp, Lucy Punch, George Young, Tawny Newsome, Ignacio Serricchio, Maulik Pancholy, Stephen Guarino, Natasha Leggero, Cole Stockel)

The Shallow Tale Of A Writer Who Decided To Write About A Serial Killer

A struggling writer befriends a retired serial killer, who becomes his unlikely marriage counselor and muse.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tolga Karacelik; Writer: Tolga Karacelik; Stars: John Magaro, Steve Buscemi, Britt Lower)

Treasure

In the early 1990s, New York music journalist Ruth travels with her father Edek, a Holocaust survivor, through his homeland of Poland.

(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2024; Director: Julia von Heinz; Writer: John Quester, Julia von Heinz; Stars: Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wenanty Nosul, Robert Besta, Oliver Ewy, David Krzysteczko)

The Wasp

Estranged friends reunite over tea, only to find themselves caught up in a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Guillem Morales; Writer: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm; Stars: Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Dominic Allburn)

Winter Spring Summer Or Fall

A young couple fall in love but face the prospect of being parted when one of them leaves to go to college.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tiffany Paulsen; Writer: Dan Schoffer; Stars: Jenna Ortega, Percy Hynes-White, Marisol Nichols, Adam Rodriguez, Elias Kacavas, Evangeline Barrosse)