Best & Worst Films at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
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.
The highest-scoring film at the festival (among entries receiving enough reviews to earn a score), director David France’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague returns to another moment in LGBT history with an investigation of the death of “street queen” Marsha P. Johnson, who founded S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries) with Sylvia Rivera (also profiled in the film). Nick Schager calls it a “stellar documentary” that derives “additional emotional power from its formal beauty.”
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