Best & Worst Films at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
and Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor – April 30, 2017
The 16th Tribeca Film Festival closes today after 10 days of world premieres. Below, sample the critical response to over a dozen key films (and one TV series). Note that one of Tribeca's biggest debuts, The Circle, just opened in theaters and so is not included below (nor are the TV shows Genius and The Handmaid's Tale, which also debuted to the public last week). Movies that previously debuted elsewhere, such as Manifesto, are also excluded.
In Brian Shoaf’s debut feature, Zachary Quinto stars as a psychologically troubled man whose therapist (Jenny Slate) begins a relationship with his brother, a famous TV actor played by Jon Hamm. TheWrap’s Dan Callahan believes the result is “frustrating because there does seem to be an unusual story about mental illness, acting and family that wants to emerge, but the script has only worked out the first third of its mission.”