Review: “28 Years Later”

Hope. That’s the element of Danny Boyle’s 2002 apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later that surprised me the most. Of course, a lot of my reaction can likely be credited to the fact that, despite its generally enthusiastic reception, it passed me by until I finally sought it out a couple months ago, and that […]

Review: “Sally”

Many things can be attributed to Sally Ride. She was the first American woman in space. She was also the youngest at the time of her initial flight in 1983. Before that, she served as the ground-based CapCom for the second and third space shuttle flights, and helped develop the shuttle’s robotic arm; after that, […]

Review: “Materialists”

It’s a scene straight out of every frothy romantic comedy you’ve seen before: attractive and successful New York City matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson) glides into a party thrown for her by her work colleagues. It’s a swanky get-together, replete with balloons and cake and bubbly, celebrating the impending ninth marriage of a couple Lucy introduced. […]

Tribeca 2025: “Cuerpo Celeste”

Summer is a dream rendered in warm and hazy tones by writer and director Narya Ilic Garcia in her sophomore feature Cuerpo Celeste. It’s Chile circa 1990, and Celeste (Helen Mrugalski) is 15 years old. In a collage of scenes that deftly convey the slippery nature of that lazy, in-between time, Celeste spends the holidays […]

Review: “The Phoenician Scheme”

Zsa-Zsa Korda ought to be dead. He’s lying face-down in a cornfield, his limbs splayed at odd angles, some feet away from where the wreckage of the plane he was flying in before it began to crumple in mid-air smolders. The remnants of his belongings are similarly scattered about, licked by flames. They’re odd items, […]

Tribeca 2025: “Runa Simi”

The image on the screen is familiar: two lions, one big, one small, sitting side-by-side on a hill, gazing out over the land below them. The language, however, is different. When we first meet Fernando Valencia, an Indigenous voice artist from the Peruvian Andes, he’s working on dubbing a scene from the classic 1994 Disney […]