Film & Documentary This year’s iteration includes titles about AOC, the making of movie sex scenes, and what’s happened to the “stars” of older documentaries. | Dan Schindel There are biographies of musicians ranging from Sinéad O’Connor to Lil Baby, sports figures like Colin Kaepernick and Derek Jeter, and activists and politicians including Al Sharpton, Rosa Parks, and Rudy Giuliani (in the form of a musical, of all things). Dreaming Walls, a document of the torturous renovation of the Chelsea Hotel, makes its NYC debut at the festival as well. Beyond such immediately and easily pitchable titles, there are a few others one should not overlook at Tribeca. Become a Member (BODY) HORROR Starring Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen, and Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future is funny, serious, and sexy all at once. | Sophie Monks Kaufman David Cronenberg understands that for voyeurs — aka cinema audiences — arousal is not stimulated by seeing sex acts so much as it is from seeing their participants’ pleasure. In Crimes of the Future, his first feature in eight years, half-closed eyes, low moans, and arched backs are as integral to his vision as shots of metal tools piercing and pulling apart flesh. Made over the course of 30 years by special effects legend Phil Tippett, this stop-motion animated epic is a feast of creatively horrifying imagery. | Dan Schindel DOCUMENTARIES THAT DIG DEEPER The Janes interviews former members of Chicago’s underground network that helped people secure abortions. | Dan Schindel The conservative assault on reproductive rights has been waged for decades now, and a film like The Janes exists to remind pro-choice activists of the stakes in this battle, looking back at the time when abortion was illegal. End of the Line captures five years of failed efforts to fix the city’s disastrously bad train infrastructure. | Dan Schindel ON MUSIC AND ART Her recent film Showing Up features Michelle Williams as a sculptor who’s constantly driven to distraction. | Sophie Monks Kaufman In 2017, the Paris Review published a piece by Claire Dederer called “What do we do with the art of monstrous men?” With her new film Showing Up, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, director Kelly Reichardt asks: What if you’re not a monster, and show up for the people in your life while still trying to be creative? As videos shot on film get refurbished for the digital age, we’re discovering more and more fascinating artifacts in the original materials. | Andrew Northrop | 