Category: Movie Reviews
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Copwatch’ Documentary About Activists Who Document Excessive Force
“Copwatch,” a documentary by Camilla Hall at the Tribeca Film Festival starts with a relentless series of videos depicting police brutality, including the videos of Rodney King and Eric Garner. Seeing them one after the other makes them all the more horrifying.
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘I Am Evidence’ Addresses Tragedy of Untested Rape Kits
When Mariska Hargitay heard about the untested rape kit backlog across the majority of jurisdictions in the U.S., she wanted to do something to change it. She testified before a Senate committee and enlisted the help of filmmakers Geeta Gandbhir and Trish Adlesic to make the documentary, “I Am Evidence,” which was part of this…
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Tribeca Film Festival: Alessandro Nivola Wins Best Actor Award for ‘One Percent More Humid’
Liz W. Garcia’s feature, “One Percent More Humid,” won Alessandro Nivola a Best Actor Award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, but the true stars of the film are young actresses Juno Temple and Julia Garner. Don’t get me wrong – I’m a huge fan of Nivola and have seen him on stage twice.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Triple-Award Winner ‘The Divine Order’ Celebrates Women’s Suffrage in Switzerland
Petra Volpe’s German-language film, “The Divine Order,” set in Switzerland won three awards at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The jury awarded it the Nora Ephron Prize and Best Actress in an international film to Marie Leuenberger. The movie also won the Audience Award for best overall narrative film. It’s rare for a film to…
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Tribeca Film Festival: A Rundown of 7 Narrative Shorts
I had a chance to watch seven of the narrative short films in the Tribeca Film Festival. Some of them include big stars and have excellent production values.
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Tribeca Fest Review: Tom Hanks, Emma Watson in ‘The Circle’
I wanted to like “The Circle.” After all, it stars Tom Hanks, Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame, and Patton Oswalt – actors I always enjoy. I was also interested in the subject matter – the mining of our personal information from our activities on the internet and on our phones.
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘The Resilient Heart,’ ‘Warning: This Drug May Kill You’ Docs Focus on Health Crises
Two documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival focus on current health crises, and in the process, they give opposite views of the medical profession. Both films, incidentally, were directed by women.
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘A River Below’ Chronicles Complexities of Trying to Save Amazon’s Pink River Dolphins
In 1999, I visited the Brazilian Amazon and got to see a couple of pink river dolphins at a distance. After watching the Tribeca Film Festival documentary, “A River Below,” directed by Mark Grieco, I feel even luckier than I did on that day in ’99. That’s because these dolphins are significantly endangered. In Brazil…
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘The Last Animals’ is Harrowing Look at Animal Extinction at the Hands of Man
War photographer turned documentary filmmaker Kate Brooks is brave and passionate. She has covered wars and child abuses in Russian state orphanages. She has seen horrific atrocities committed against people. Now, she turns her attention to atrocities committed against wild animals, traveling within Asia, Africa, Europe, and the U.S.
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Tribeca Fest Review: Burt Reynolds Like You’ve Never Seen Him in ‘Dog Years’
Burt Reynolds, now 81 years old, has continued to work in little known films and TV series. In the indie, “Dog Years” playing at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, he’s in excellent form, playing a role that might be a bit autobiographical.
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Tribeca Fest Review: ‘A Gray State’ Documentary Will Stay With You
“A Gray State” is a documentary that is largely about the making of a narrative film by the same name. The filmmaker was David Crowley, a highly intelligent, good looking, Iraq and Afghanistan vet who was a figure in the alt-right community.