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For non-commercial use only. webeditors@reedbusiness.com webeditors@reedbusiness.com http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947592?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 20 May 2012 19:40:11 PST Tribeca Reviews: Downtrodden and ragtag, yet resilient and animated in more ways than one, the protags of "Consuming Spirits" lead a hard-knock life in an Appalachian town rife with secrets. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947549?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:01:21 PST Tribeca Reviews: Amusingly casting a somnambulant, flesh-eating weirdo as a struggling artist's much-needed muse, Canadian-Danish genre mashup "Eddie" contemporarily tackles the rarely overlapping areas of parasomnia, cannibalism and creative block. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947526?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Tue, 8 May 2012 09:51:31 PST Tribeca Reviews: Turning slowly from gritty to pretty, Riker's drama boasts impressive perfs from Aussie thesp Abbie Cornish and talented non-pro Maritza Santiago Hernandez in the title role. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947519?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Mon, 7 May 2012 15:03:52 PST Tribeca Reviews: The pro-Detroit docu "Burn" never once mentions the auto industry, but nonetheless vividly illustrates the city's running-on-empty status. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947516?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 6 May 2012 18:11:18 PST Tribeca Reviews: "Off Label" is a pretentiously poetic docu-mosaic whose choices appear to have been made for pseudo-artistic rather than principled reasons. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947511?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 6 May 2012 17:11:34 PST Tribeca Reviews: This intimate character drama explores gay adoption rights, or rather the lack thereof, in 1970s Los Angeles without ever becoming preachy or pushing for contempo relevance. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947507?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 6 May 2012 15:34:47 PST Tribeca Reviews: The wedding-day waffling of a '30s-era Brit femme yields predictable comedy and melodrama in "Cheerful Weather for the Wedding." http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947502?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 6 May 2012 14:06:22 PST Tribeca Reviews: Film acerbically observes a group of bourgeois thirtysomethings who gather for a birthday meal in the countryside. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947492?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Thu, 3 May 2012 15:34:11 PST Tribeca Reviews: Helmer Susan Froemke excels at delineating process, a quality that distinguishes "Wagner's Dream." http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947482?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Tue, 1 May 2012 19:25:58 PST Tribeca Reviews: Women and India are the ostensible subjects of "The World Before Her," but Nisha Pahuja's docu hangs a big, fat question mark over the future of humankind itself. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947480?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Tue, 1 May 2012 18:00:00 PST Tribeca Reviews: A delightful surprise at the Tribeca Film Festival, partly because the film so little resembles its description, Stephen Maing's "High Tech, Low Life" ostensibly examines censorship of the Internet and news media in China. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947474?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:48:31 PST Tribeca Reviews: Overly one-note in its singular p.o.v., the pic nevertheless offers a welcome variation on the conquering frat boy or Ferris Bueller-type adolescent, and could graduate from fest to arthouse play. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947471?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:44:36 PST Tribeca Reviews: Michael Sladek's "BAM150" is a celebration of/advertisement for the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the occasion of its sesquicentennial, but runs out of storyline long before it runs out of footage. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947463?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:11:36 PST Tribeca Reviews: Intermittently appealing but overly familiar, reality TV-style docu "Fame High" follows a quartet of talented students at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947462?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:10:15 PST Tribeca Reviews: "Ballroom Dancer" follows onetime World Latin Dance champion Slavik Kryklyvyy as he tries to recapture his former glory. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947461?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:18:02 PST Tribeca Reviews: "Glee" thesp Chris Colfer plays another precociously creative and snark-slinging high schooler in "Struck by Lightning," a mediocre coming-of-age indie. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947460?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:16:19 PST Tribeca Reviews: A touching cameo turn by Tippi Hedren is the sole benefit of "Free Samples," a pathetically inept comedy-drama about a hungover law-school dropout's humiliating stint in a Los Angeles ice-cream truck. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947457?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:53:16 PST Tribeca Reviews: The film does all it can to maintain an objective perspective on the Texas textbook battle, but always stays one unsteady step away from hysteria. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947456?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:12:39 PST Tribeca Reviews: Inevitably best suited to fans, docu follows two of the last Major League Baseball pitchers who, at the time the pic was shot, continued to throw from their fingertips. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947455?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=4306 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:12:55 PST Tribeca Reviews: "Future Weather" integrates a green message into an emotional drama about intergenerational female conflict.