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.

8 of 18 photo by Mason Hendricks

74 A Gray State

Erik Nelson’s investigative documentary reveals the tragic demise of Army veteran and aspiring filmmaker David Crowley. Due to Crowley’s alt-right following, conspiracy theories spread quickly when he and his family were found dead in their Minnesota home in January 2015. THR’s Frank Scheck believes “the film makes its case methodically and persuasively,” and Chris Barsanti of The Playlist finds it to be a “compelling, highly dramatic piece of documentary filmmaking.”

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