

Natalia Winkelman
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‘Close to You’ Review: Clumsy Overtures of Support
This formless drama featuring Elliot Page as a trans man returning home relies on improvised dialogue.

‘Coup!’ Review: Pandemonium in a Pandemic — No, Not That One
In this obvious satire set amid the 1918 influenza, a wealthy, muckraking reporter hires a new chef who disrupts the estate’s hierarchy.

‘Join or Die’ Review: Come Together
This documentary about the work of Robert Putnam, who wrote “Bowling Together,” argues that Americans can save democracy by becoming joiners.

‘Confessions of a Good Samaritan’ Review: An Altruistic Story
In Penny Lane’s newest film, she turns the camera on herself to document her experience donating a kidney to a stranger.

‘Summer Solstice’ Review: Through Thick and Thin
A triumph of sensitivity, Noah Schamus’s debut feature tracks a rural reunion between old friends struggling to recover their bond.

At the Tribeca Festival, Vision and Vibe
The festival favors abundance, which can make it easy for cinema fans (and critics) to miss the loveliest trees for the sheer breadth of forest.

‘Ezra’ Review: This Father Doesn’t Know Best
This drama centers on a boy with autism and his divorced dad, with a cast featuring Robert De Niro, Rose Byrne, Whoopi Goldberg and Bobby...

‘Mother of the Bride’ Review: An Old Flame in a Tropical Locale
Brooke Shields plays a single mother who comes face to face with her college ex-boyfriend at her daughter’s destination wedding in this tired romantic comedy.

‘Turtles All the Way Down’ Review: 10 Things I Hate About Germs
Hannah Marks’s adaptation of John Green’s blockbuster young-adult novel builds a dynamic depiction of a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

‘The Stranger’ Review: Somewhere Over the Freeway
In this tense thriller on Hulu, Maika Monroe plays Clare, a Kansas transplant in Los Angeles who parallels Dorothy in Oz.