| June 5, 2026 
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Hey there, movie fans! The Tribeca Festival, (perhaps the scrappiest of all the major festivals) began on Wednesday and runs through June 14. This marks the festival’s 25th year since its founding shortly after the 9/11 attacks as a way to revive Lower Manhattan. The critic Natalia Winkelman provided highlights from this year’s slate, including “Funk,” which, she wrote, “plays like a Brazilian funk version of ‘A Star is Born,’ if that star spent as much time twerking as vocalizing.” Winkelman also liked “Act One,” which she called “a wickedly charged thriller” about a cultlike local theater company. We had a round table conversation with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, who founded the event, as well as Rebecca Glashow, the new leader of Tribeca Enterprises. They looked back at Tribeca’s best moments and looked ahead to its future. “Who knows where it’ll wind up or where it’ll go,” De Niro said, “but it’ll certainly be interesting.” Outside the festival circuit, plenty of great new movies are opening in theaters. One of those is “The Little Sister,” a coming-of-age film about a French Algerian teenager discovering her sexuality. In her critic’s pick review, Alissa Wilkinson praised the film’s subtlety, writing, “a movie about a teen from a religious family grappling with her sexual identity is hardly uncommon. But ‘The Little Sister’ is an unusually gentle take on this story.” Another critic’s pick this week is “Carolina Caroline,” a lovers-on-the-lam drama starring Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner. In her review, the critic Beatrice Loayza wrote, “Nestled into its classic blueprint like a pair of old, reliable jeans, it banks on the quality of its ingredients — its magnetic stars and soulful sincerity — to revitalize its timeworn premise.” As a resident Kyle Gallner fan (if you haven’t seen “Dinner in America,” you must), I will be seated with my popcorn. At the festival or at your local cinema, enjoy the movies! |
