Tribeca 2022 Festival Preview: 24 Films & TV Series To Watch

A sibling is usually your first friend and your first enemy, someone who cares about you like your parents but will get into shenanigans with you. These relationships are complicated, especially when you go in different directions in life and potentially feel estranged from the complex trappings of family.

Penelope Cruz looked delightful in pink, as she stepped onto the red carpet at theTribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner, hosted by Chanel, in New York on Monday.TheVicky Cristina Barcelona star, 48, showed off her toned arms in the flowing hot pink gown, which she accessorized with a matching pink quilted Chanel purse.The celebrity-studded annual dinner celebrates the artists who make the pieces that later become prizes for film winners at the festival, founded by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. Pink delight: Penelope Cruz, 48, looked delightful in pink, as she stepped onto the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner, hosted by Chanel, in New York on MondayCruz added a touch of bling to her look with round gold hoops.

A standard hagiography that is far less interesting than the subjects it features, “Turn Every Page” aspires to none of the depth and complexity it champions throughout its too-long 112 minutes. A serviceable accounting of both a historian and a historically important editor, the documentary makes a strong case for the importance of both, yet in so doing, demonstrates that these men need no such help.

Artfully toggling between the ephemeral memories associated with the infamous Chelsea Hotel, and the more granular concerns of its present residents, Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt’s new documentary, the Martin Scorsese executive produced “Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel,” is a concise reflection of the erasure of historical monuments in the name of gentrification. Centralizing the protracted construction process that closed down the hotel in 2011, but allowed its long-term residents to stay, the doc mainly follows the hold-outs in their ninth year of construction, many who view the hotel as one the last examples of bohemian, and affordable, living in Manhattan.

The movies have given us man-children for decades, dating back to Carl Reiner’s “The Jerk,” leading all the way to a bumper crop of “dudes stuck in arrested development” productions through the 2000s and 2010s: “Cyrus,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up,” “Adult Beginners,” “The Comedy,” “Step Brothers,” “Jeff Who Lives at Home.” Alex Heller’s feature debut, “The Year Between,” descends from this overdone tradition and leaves a new wrinkle on the formula: Bipolar disorder, a formidable condition characterized by extreme mood swings and thus a clear goldmine for slacker burnout comedy.

B.J. Novak’s feature directorial debut, “Vengeance,” does not begin like you would expect B.J.

A minor but affecting character study about buried family trauma, Clara Stern’s feature-length narrative debut “Breaking the Ice” works well as both a sports drama — focusing on an Austrian minor-league women’s hockey team — and a romantic drama. While perhaps too contained within its protagonist’s point of view, Stern’s film is nevertheless an impressive debut.

Set in the Fall of 2005, Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s piercing feature debut, “Good Girl Jane,” tracks the grooming of the title character (Rain Spencer), Jane, a young outcast teenage skater enduring an endless summer that nearly undoes her. Jane and her older sister Izzie (Eloisa Huggins) have recently transferred to a new school.

“American Dreamer” is a mess of a movie, in which scenes of startling wit and emotional truth co-exist alongside entire subplots that are utterly inexplicable. It’s all over the damn place; its good ideas in near equal proportion to its bad ones, feeling less like a polished production than a filmed first draft, released as a rough assembly.

Aisha Osagie wakes up early. She bathes and prays.

This weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival, Academy Award-winning documentarian Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”) debuts his newest documentary, “Of Medicine and Miracles,” to the world. The film tells parallel stories of an incredibly resilient child battling a rare form of leukemia and the researcher who pioneered her treatment.

Ray Romano is a good actor, and seems like a nice guy. These are the two primary takeaways from “Somewhere in Queens,” which the stand-up comedian, character actor, and sitcom star co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in.

“I come from a family of geniuses and criminals,” confesses inventor David Hanson. And it’s not at all apparent if Hanson is the former, or a less pernicious version of the latter.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorTo many fans of “Sex and the City,” Kim Cattrall was the definition of glamorous. So perhaps it’s only fitting that her next TV project will be “Glamorous,” a Netflix series in which Cattrall will be starring as a makeup mogul.“Glamorous,” which had originally been ordered as a pilot at The CW in 2019, tells the story of Marco Mejia (played by actor, singer and YouTuber Miss Benny), a gender non-conforming queer person who goes to work for Cattrall’s cosmetics queen Madolyn Addison.

The horrors of opioid addiction, greed, corporate interests, and the exploitation of the drug and patients are nothing new, and shows like “Dopesick” have done a great job of putting the epidemic in a great cultural, capitalistic and political context. But a new true-crime documentary, “American Pain” is showing one specific slice of the story that’s almost too unbelievable to believe.

“The Wizard of Oz” is the all-movie; in my film school days, professors would use King Vidor’s canon cornerstone as a teachable exemplar for just about everything, from the usage of color to the dream-logic of cinema to the mechanisms of Golden Age Hollywood manufacturing. The new documentary “Lynch / Oz” applies this lens as a way of seeing the works of David Lynch with greater clarity and understanding, and in doing so, draws on the seemingly infinite number of angles from which the foundational fantasy can be analyzed.

making its long-awaited return to in person red carpets and screenings.MORE: Robert De Niro and Benjamin Millepied suit up for new Ermenegildo Zegna campaignThe film debut of choice for its exciting opening night was none other than Jennifer Lopez' highly-anticipated Halftime documentary, which follows her multi-decade career with a focus on her Super Bowl Halftime performance in 2020.HELLO! had the opportunity to attend the global premiere, and exclusively spoke with the one and only Robert De Niro about his hopes for the festival – looking out for guests as he revealed fears over returning to public gatherings.WATCH: The trailer for J.Lo's Halftime documentaryMORE: Meet the hotelier! Robert De Niro's luxury hotelsThe Academy Award winner founded the iconic festival in 2002 alongside Jane Rosenthal, who was also in attendance, and Craig Hatkoff, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan, in hopes of sparking a cultural and economic revitilization in the city.As he presented JLo's movie, he made note of the parallel between the emotional reason behind the festival's inception and how as it makes its return to in person gathering for the first time since the pandemic, he once again felt the urge to reinvigorate the New York film community.Robert was in good spirits during the red carpet, looking dapper in a blue polo shirt and gray jacket, and while he was excited about the incredible turn out, he couldn't help but express concern over the crowds.

“Thank you so much for coming I didn’t plan to say anything. I was going to sneak out,” said Jennifer Lopez from somewhere near the stage but hard to spot at the end of Halftime, the Amanda Micheli documentary on the iconic pop star that opened the 21st Tribeca Festival Wednesday night.

Jennifer Lopez hits the red carpet in a hot, sheer cutout dress for the premiere of Halftime during opening night of the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on Wednesday (June 8).

The trailer for one of Ray Liotta's final projects has been released. Before his death, Liotta completed the Apple TV+ series "Black Bird." The actor filmed six episodes as the character Big Jim Keene. Other projects Liotta had worked on before his sudden death include "Dangerous Waters" and "Cocaine Bear." The "Goodfellas" star had recently made an acting comeback with his role in the Apple TV+ series "Black Bird" along with "The Many Saints of Newark." A preview of one of Ray Liotta's last projects was released Tuesday.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFor the first time in two years, Tribeca Festival is going back indoors.After canceling the 2020 edition and staying mostly outside in 2021, the annual gathering is returning to traditional premieres, panels and parties to celebrate its 21st edition. It’s also staying put in Manhattan, a change from last year’s version that spanned all five boroughs of New York City.“We’re back to normal,” says Jane Rosenthal, who founded Tribeca Festival with Robert De Niro in 2002. “We are watching things together as a community.