Best & Worst Films at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor
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.

12 of 18 photo by Giacomo Belletti

Keep the Change

Rom-com | USA
Directed by Rachel Israel

Adapted from her own short film, Rachel Israel's debut feature—an unconventional rom-com centering on two adults (played by non-professional actors) on the autism spectrum—was the big winner at this year's festival, winning the top award for U.S. narrative films. In a "B" review, Indiewire's Michael Nordine admires a "refreshingly uncynical" film that "positions itself to join the pantheon of New York rom-coms."

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