For the first time since it was founded 11 years ago, the narrative films competing for awards at the Tribeca Film Festival made up a noteworthy and motley bunch, and it was a real race. Usually gems by an unknown filmmaker made without any stars can be discovered in the various sidebars, but this year, […]
Written & Directed by Andrew Bujalski Produced by Houston King & Alex Lipschultz Released by Kino Lorber USA. 92 min. Not rated With Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige, Robin Schwartz & Gerald Peary If being unique and outside of the box were all that Computer Chess had going for it, it wouldn’t have been […]
Written & Directed by Sebastián Silva Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín & Pablo Larraín Released by IFC Films Chile. 100 min. Not rated With Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, José Miguel Silva & Agustín Silva Early on in Sebastián Silva’s small, strange, and perfect movie Crystal Fairy, Michael Cera’s character, Jamie, a […]
Music, Art Direction, Animation Direction, Edited, Written & Directed by Terence Nance Produced by James Bartlett, Andrew D. Corkin & Nance Released by Variance Films USA. 84 min. Not rated With Terence Nance & Namik Minter The tender opening credits appear as hand drawn overlays over a beautiful sequence shot in the tunnels of the […]
Written & Directed by Geoffrey Fletcher Produced by Fletcher & Bonnie Timmerman Released by Cinedigm USA. 88 min. Rated R With Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel & James Gandolfini The idea behind Violet & Daisy is intriguing. Two young women, who love ordinary things like pretty dresses and bubblegum pop stars, happen to be deadly assassins […]
Directed by Dante Ariola Written by Becky Johnston Produced by Alisa Tager, Johnston, Mac Cappuccino & Brian Oliver Released by Cinedigm USA. 101 min. Not rated With Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Anne Heche & Lucas Hedges Mistaken and reinvention of identity is a longstanding theme within popular culture, from North by Northwest to Mad Men?the […]
Written & Directed by Bob Byington Produced by Stuart Bohart, Hans Graffunder, Christos Konstantakopoulos & Nick Offerman Released by Tribeca Film USA. 76 min. Not rated With Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, Stephanie Hunt, Marshall Bell, Kate Lyn Sheil The opening credits set a peculiar tone, sashaying between animation, one-liners, time jumps, and the […]
Written & Directed by Rebecca Thomas Produced by Jessica Caldwell & Richard Neustadter Released by Phase 4 Films USA. 93 min. Not rated With Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aike, Bill Sage, Cynthia Watros, Billy Zane, John Patrick Amedorl, Rachel Pirard, Cassidy Gard & Paola Baldlon Electrick Children pulls from a bizarre combination of coming-age-films, […]
Written & Directed by David Riker Produced by Paul Mezey Released by Brainstorm Media USA. 94 min. Not rated With Abbie Cornish, Will Patton & Maritza Santiago Hernández Reminiscent of 2008’s Frozen River, another film about a financially floundering single mother taking up human trafficking, The Girl examines issues of illegal immigration and economic class […]