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.
Director Bryan Buckley’s follow-up to The Bronze tells the true story of Ja Bahadur, a rookie journalist who traveled to Somalia to embed with the country’s pirates. Based on the resulting book, The Pirates of Somalia, Dabka stars Evan Peters as Bahadur and Barkhad Abdi as his translator in a movie Screen Daily’s Nikki Baughan describes as a “solid take on a fascinating story.”