In 'Cold Copy,' Mia discovers whether she can live up to her journalistic dreams when confronting the flinty icon of cable news, Diane Heger.
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Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Downtown Owl’ Starring Lily Rabe
Small-town life in Owl, North Dakota reveals quirky characters and a fine performance by Lily Rabe in the world premiere at Tribeca 2023 of 'Downtown Owl.'
Read More »New York Film Festival Documentary Reviews: ‘Descendant,’ ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’
'Descendant' and 'Is That Black Enough for You?!?' explore misrepresentations and lies in Black history.
Read More »New York Film Festival Reviews: ‘Alcarras,’ ‘One Fine Morning,’ ‘Return to Seoul’
'Alcarras,' 'One Fine Morning,' and 'Return to Seoul' made their New York City premieres at NYFF60.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Triangle of Sadness’
Beautiful celebrity models Carl and Yaya strike it lucky as influencers, going on a luxury cruise as a perk. But things don't turn out as expected.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’
'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' focuses on Nan Goldin's intersection of photographic artistry and fierce activism.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘White Noise’
In Noah Baumbach's film adaptation of Don DeLillo's 'White Noise' the American obsession with death and inability to look at it realistically floats in air like a toxic plume.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Reviews: ‘Attachment’ and ‘A Wounded Fawn’
Two horror films turn the genre upside down and tweak gender stereotypes in the service of horror.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘A Rising Fury,’ Ukraine at War
Through the testimony of a Ukrainian soldier, a documentary blows the whistle on Putin's long-range plans to invade Ukraine.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Review: ”We Might as Well be Dead’
'We Might as Well be Dead' focuses on a dystopian world in a Tower community that lives by strict rules and evicts those who violate them
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