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.
Goodbye to All That writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s latest—which won the festival's screenplay award—is a North-Carolina-set tale about a sister and brother (Amy Ryan and Terry Kinney) dealing with their father’s death and the arrival of three mysterious brothers who have a connection to their family farm.
The FilmStage believes the film is a “quiet moving portrait of good people,” and on Ryan’s much-praised performance, Variety’s Peter Debruge writes, “It’s a pleasure to see such a fine actress navigate the nuances of her role."