The 9 Best Movies…

Every spring the film world converges upon Lower Manhattan for two weeks of incredible movies, television, video games, music and panel discussions at the Tribeca Festival. From June 5-16, 2024, people from around the world flocked to Tribeca (and its adjacent neighborhoods) to check out the latest in media, and we at Parade were on site to take it all in. 

The Tribeca Festival, originally called the Tribeca Film Festival, was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as a way to revitalize a neighborhood that had been largely destroyed by the September 11 attacks. Over the years, the festival earned a reputation for curating a lineup of exceptional movies both from filmmakers in the U.S. and abroad. And while, the festival has expanded its lineup to showcase media beyond movies, film is still very much at the heart of Tribeca.

I spent the last week two weeks in theaters all across Manhattan, so I could let you know which films from this year’s festival were the best of the best. Here are 9 movies from Tribeca Festival that you should definitely check out: 

1. Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

2. Quad Gods

3. Adult Best Friends

4. Sacramento

5. Dust to Dust

6. Black Table

7. I’m Your Venus

8. Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. 

9. Lake George