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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.

‘Girls State’ Review: One Nation, Under Girls

Balancing confidence with broad smiles, the high school students in this documentary understand that camaraderie goes hand in hand with political ambition.

‘Asphalt City’ Review: Arbiters of Life and Death

Sean Penn plays a flinty paramedic showing a rookie the ropes in this maddening drama about emergency medical workers in New York.

‘Stormy’ Review: Trials and Travails

A new documentary on Stormy Daniels traces how fame, frenzy and legal battles involving a former president upended her life.

‘Cabrini’ Review: Embarking on a Pious Mission

From the team behind “Sound of Freedom,” this biopic of an Italian nun in 19th-century New York City is stuffed with sanctimonious speeches.

‘Shayda’ Review: Finding Refuge in Community

This stirring film from Noora Niasari follows an Iranian woman and her daughter living in a women’s shelter in Australia.