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Elio: Video Review by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

Critic : Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Works as film critic and journalist who covers stories about culture and sustainability. With a degree in Political Sciences, a Master’s in Screenwriting & Film Production, and studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Chiara has been working in the press since 2003. Italian by blood, British by…

How To Train Your Dragon : Video Review by Serena Davanzo

Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Serena Davanzo, a Pennsylvania native, graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a BA in Journalism and a BA in Theatre in December 2022. She currently works full time as a weekend anchor/producer and MMJ’s weekdays. She aspires to be an entertainment based journalist and actor! She’s loved…

Tribeca Festival: Everything’s Going To Be Great Review / Allison Janney and Bryan Cranston Excel in This Dramedy About Family and Dreams

@Courtesy of Lionsgate In ‘Everything’s Going To Be Great‘, screenwriter Steven Rogers ‘I, Tonya’ provided again the protagonist Allison Janney with a script that is fully capable of enhancing her already remarkable acting skills. And she repaid him with a bittersweet performance whose quality and solidity are, as always admirable. If we then add to…

Tribeca Festival: Tow Is the Perfect Vehicle for an Inspired (and Inspiring) Rose Byrne

@Courtesy of Tribeca Festival ‘Tow’ (Spotlight Narrative) could easily have been an intense drama, given the real-life event it is based on, but star and co-producer Rose Byrne managed to give the movie the gift of levity without making the whole story shallow or inconsistent, especially since it is really about serious facts and people…

Tribeca Film Festival Review: Takashi Miike’s ‘Sham’ Departs from His Genre Roots by Exploring True Life Drama

If you were to go into the Japanese crime-drama, Sham, without any advance knowledge, you might assume it’s the new film from Kore-eda or Oscar-winning filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car). Going into the movie knowing it’s directed by Takashi Miike is likely to lead to all sorts of expectations, since, for better or worse…

Tribeca Festival/ Dog of God is a Powerful Animated Horror

©Courtesy of Tritone Studio Latvian industry of animation movies seems to be experiencing an artistic moment of grace, to say the least. Following the success of Flow by Gints Zilbalodis, awarded with an Oscar for best animated film, Tribeca Festival 2025 (in the Escape from Tribeca section) presented the powerful Dog of God, directed by…

Tribeca Festival: Re-Creation Confirms That Jim Sheridan Hasn’t Given Up the Fight

@Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Jim Sheridan wrote important, if not fundamental, pages of British cinema beginning in the late 1980s, with such award-winning films as ‘My Left Foot,’ ‘In the Name of the Father,’ and ‘The Boxer‘. Around the beginning of the new millennium, though he got kind of lost in the oblivion of those…

Tribeca Festival/A Second Life Review: Chaos Meets Claude Monet When Titane Star Agathe Rousselle Crosses Paris on the Verge of the Olympics

Life was dark when French painter Claude Monet, regarded as the father of impressionism, took on the grand scale Water Lilies at the age of 74, a series of around 250 paintings depicting the water garden at his Giverny home. The year was 1914. His son had recently died, World War 1 had just begun,…

Tribeca Festival Review – ‘Long Live the State’ Documentary

In 2024, I was sitting in a packed theater in Times Square full of a few thousand people who were there for one thing and one thing only – a rare reunion by 8 or 9 of the original cast members of the MTV sketch comedy show, The State. I knew that they had sold…

‘Materialists’ Review: It’s So Different from ‘Past Lives’ But It’s Still So Genuine…

@Courtesy of A24 After the surprising (but totally deserved) success of Past Lives, Celine Song returns with another movie that confirms how she is capable of talking about our present days and their contradictions, even if she decided to go in a (almost) completely different direction. If her first feature film (Academy Award nominations for…

‘Ballerina’ : The John Wick Franchise Shows What It Means To “Fight Like A Girl”

The fifth film in the John Wick franchise newly unites Ana de Armas with Keanu Reeves, since the two had worked in the 2015 thriller Knock Knock and the 2016 drama Exposed. After a decade, we see them together again in Ballerina, that serves as a spin-off set between the events of John Wick: Chapter…