It’s difficult to judge Petra Biondina Volpe’s The Divine Order because its individual parts feel so drastically different from each other. The film follows a Swiss housewife named Nora (Marie Leuenberger) who experiences a political awakening and helps organize and…
Tribeca Review: The Family I Had
When he was little, Paris drew crayon pictures of dinosaurs and dreamed of being a paleontologist. When he came home from his school in Abilene, Texas, he’d play with his baby sister, playing silly games and making even sillier home…
Tribeca Review: LA 92
It only takes a single soundtrack cue to elevate Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin’s LA 92 from being a good documentary to an essential one. It comes about 15-20 minutes into the film. The city of Los Angeles braces itself…
Tribeca Review: The Boy Downstairs
We’ve seen this woman in a hundred movies, mostly mumblecore dramas and indie rom-coms. A mid-to-late twentysomething, she’s invariably white and thin. Her hair is usually the most disheveled part of her appearance, being just unkempt enough to give her…
Tribeca Review: House of Z
Sandy Chronopoulos’ House of Z is just about every documentary or film ever made about youthful prodigies who blow up way too big way too early. It’s subject, legendary fashion designer Zac Posen, hit the fashion world in the early…
Tribeca Review: A River Below
There are plenty of documentaries about activism. But documentaries about the consequences of activism are few and far between. Of these, Mark Grieco’s A River Below is one of the best in recent memory. At first we mistake the film…
