Film
Twinless | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Twinless is slightly sorta like Vertigo, on poppers, running on the energy of an off the walls 2000s movie laced with the spirit of a Hitchcockian thriller.
Michel Abdulaziz
Michel Abdulaziz is a reviewer and film journalist with interest in the intersection between film and culture and all the politics therein.
Festivals
Esta Isla is A Grueling Love Letter to Puerto Rico | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Esta Isla films in the dialect of Tropical Realism, austere and surreal, a bit verité: it makes no attempts at hiding because it holds itself plain to see.
Film
Paradise Records | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Paradise Records is of a lost artifact type, when punky, punchy storytelling was the rage. It's tone more flaccid in spaces, its pace bogged, trips on jokes better off left on the cutting room floor, yet the heart is there and the ride lively.
Film
The Scout | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Paula Gonzalez-Nasser brings her background as a professional location scout for a metatextual meditation on the arrangements we make of the places that we live in. Her camera stoic, purposeful, and never once without a point to what it's capturing.
Festivals
Birthright | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Inheritances Writ in Mud and Chlorine - Birthright is a Thrilling Battle of the Generations.
Film
Slumlord Millionaire: Housing is a Human Right
Across five boroughs, the film passes through the lives of these everyday New Yorkers, their hurdles examined and felt, deeply, out through the screen.
TriBeCa 2025
Preview: TriBeCa Festival 2025
Our top picks so far, and our most anticipated going forward
Deep Dive
The Genius of Poker Face (Video Essay)
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Deep Dive
The Genius of Poker Face (Paid Aficionados Version)
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Film
Audience Etiquette and Minecraft Memes.
The biggest movie in the world right now is kind of a mess, but not for the reasons a movie that's based on yet another intellectual property might have you think it is.
Film
People Will Die…Of Fun!; The Sunny Bright But Horrific Delights of Hell of a Summer
A joyful breath of fresh pinewood air, indebted to a great legacy of 80s slasher classics yet still wholly (and funnily) original.
The Curious Cases of Anora; Sean Baker, Intimacy, and Aesthetics Without Thought
Michel breaks down the allegations about the working conditions on Anora, and how this may be changing the context of the film's message, and reception by audiences, in real time.