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1 week ago | filmfestivaltoday.com | Christopher Reed

A Tree Fell in the Woods (Nora Kirkpatrick, 2025) 3 out of 5 starsThere’s a lot of fraught and frantic activity in A Tree Fell in the Woods, writer/director Nora Kirkpatrick’s feature debut. Some of it proves comically effective, while other parts come across as merely hyperactive. When the magic works and the ensemble comes together, it’s an entertaining romp about relationships and cheating; when neither go quite according to plan, it drags.

1 week ago | filmfestivaltoday.com | Christopher Reed

Tribeca Review: “Widow Champion”Widow Champion (Zippy Kimundu, 2025) 3½ out of 5 stars Throughout human history and across cultures, the institution of marriage has almost always been a means by which property is carefully controlled (usually by men). Amongst royals and the nobility, such title transfers might involve vast estates, territories, or even entire countries. In poorer communities, the acreage may be smaller, yet the stakes are no less high for those involved.

1 week ago | filmfestivaltoday.com | Christopher Reed

Widow Champion (Zippy Kimundu, 2025) 3½ out of 5 starsThroughout human history and across cultures, the institution of marriage has almost always been a means by which property is carefully controlled (usually by men). Amongst royals and the nobility, such title transfers might involve vast estates, territories, or even entire countries. In poorer communities, the acreage may be smaller, yet the stakes are no less high for those involved.

1 week ago | filmfestivaltoday.com | Christopher Reed

Tribeca Review: “Oh, Hi!”Oh, Hi! (Sophie Brooks, 2025) 3½ out of 5 stars At the start of Sophie Brooks’ sophomore feature, a young woman, Iris (Molly Gordon, Theater Camp), frantically greets a friend, Max (Geraldine Viswanathan, Thunderbolts, who has come to the door late at night, apparently in answer to a summons for help.

2 weeks ago | filmfestivaltoday.com | Christopher Reed

Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print (Cecilia Aldarondo/Alice Gu/Salima Koroma, 2025) 4 out of 5 starsThe groundbreaking, feminist Ms. magazine (groundbreaking because it was feminist), founded in 1971, changed the media landscape by bringing women’s concerns directly into the mainstream (where they should always have been). Though the publication faced some initial misogynist pushback, it quickly caught on and became one of the decade’s success stories.