{"id":258270,"date":"2026-06-07T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:22:10","slug":"tribeca-review-new-york-city-anthology-human-theories-finds-the-humor-in-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258270\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribeca review: New York City anthology \u201cHuman Theories\u201d finds the humor in everyday life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) &#8211; \u201cHuman Theories\u201d had its world premiere Saturday at the Tribeca Festival, screening as part of their Viewpoints section. WEAU\u2019s Maddy at the Movies watched it as part of her coverage of the festival and her thoughts are below!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Right from its jazzy opening credits, \u201cHuman Theories\u201d puts you in a New York state of mind. I\u2019m dubbing it a \u201csuper anthology\u201d \u2013 there are countless small moments woven together to fill the movie\u2019s 71-minute run time. This innovative spin on the anthology flick is something that fits so perfectly in its setting: New York City. It could probably be done in different places but is uniquely New York; you can bump into someone on the street who has their own life and crazy story.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"&quot;Human Theories&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FDH65OITMNCINABF4Y7SZFZC7U.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"466\" \/>&#8220;Human Theories&#8221;(Alina Pictures)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Like I mentioned, \u201cHuman Theories\u201d is made up of a bunch of bite-sized stories and interactions between New Yorkers. The movie starts with someone getting off the subway and is handed off to the person who\u2019s following her a little too closely. These small interactions (or object connections\u2026 like two scenes with cameras) push the story along, taking us bad date to awkward roommate interaction. The moments are cringe-inducing at times, and often funny, finding humor in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">I liked \u201cHuman Theories.\u201d It\u2019s a fresh take on the anthology, structure I\u2019ve always liked (but not loved) in film. \u201cHuman Theories\u201d doesn\u2019t overstay its welcome and comes to a satisfying and mundane conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">I\u2019m giving \u201cHuman Theories\u201d a 3\/5. I would revisit it again.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WEAU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) &#8211; \u201cHuman Theories\u201d had its world premiere Saturday at the Tribeca Festival, screening as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100642,4969,749,21276,100641,8562,35501,35666,9,56,63,65,64,100644,100643,6071,71225],"class_list":["post-258270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-anthology","tag-feature","tag-film","tag-film-festival","tag-human-theories","tag-humor","tag-movie","tag-movie-review","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-shorts","tag-small-stories","tag-tribeca","tag-tribeca-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}