Film-Forward

The French Italian, Lake George, Sacramento | Tribeca Festival 2024

Reports that “comedy is dead” have been greatly exaggerated. Or, in any case, that memo didn’t reach the 2024 Tribeca Festival.

Tiger Stripes

This allegory takes some of the worst experiences of puberty to become, at times, a genuinely bewildering horror movie.

Queendom

The life of Jenna Marvin, a queer performance artist from Russia, is captured in this bold and sobering documentary.

Ghostlight

A small and subtle triumph of acting. The characters are all drawn with empathy and are often surprising.

Robot Dreams

Director Pablo Berger has crafted a fantastical tale of great visual (and sonic) inventiveness that is as gorgeous to look at as it is emotionally bittersweet.

Hit Man

Richard Linklater’s latest is a lot of things at once, and each one of them is excellent.

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2024

The hit of the series is There’s Still Tomorrow, a sensation and conversation piece in Italy.

Flipside

The film is about this store and the director’s attempt to make sense of a life that he has not, thus far, spent the way he intended.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.