The idea of outer space is already an interesting and beloved topic in film. When a filmmaker takes the rawness and uncertainty of space and combines it with the power and emotions of a documentary, you get Emer Reynolds’s The…
Tribeca Review: When God Sleeps
As the title suggests, Till Schauder’s When God Sleeps is less about exiled Iranian musician Shahin Najafi than it is a portrait of a man grasping for faith, grasping for purpose in the midst of unthinkable persecution. In 2012, Iran…
Tribeca Review: Chuck
In 1975, a club boxer from Bayonne, New Jersey got the opportunity of a lifetime. He was offered a chance to fight Muhammad Ali for a shot at the world’s Heavyweight title. The fight was considered a joke: a North…
Tribeca Review: Love After Love
Like its last rattle, death lingers and grief hurts. There is no easy, manual prescribed manner in which someone deals with the loss of a loved one, especially when that someone was the glue that held so much of a…
Tribeca Review: Aardvark
Starring the typically delightful Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto and John Hamm, Aardvark, directed by Brian Shoaf completely squanders their collective talents with a astoundingly dumb film. Despite any hints of chemistry between Slate and Hamm and and a particularly winsome turn from…
Tribeca Review: City of Ghosts
I can only imagine that one of the hardest parts of being a documentary filmmaker is not letting the quality and importance of your footage be eclipsed by a lack of thematic focus or talent. Consider Bernard-Henri Lévy’s recent documentary…
Tribeca Review: Buster’s Mal Heart
Casting traditional narrative techniques aside, Sarah Adina Smith’s Buster’s Mal Heart follows three separate narratives centering on three men all played by Rami Malek who may or may not be the same person. The first is Jonah, a doting husband…