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Andrew Bujalski's There There, a COVID-era experiment that uses lockdown-era restrictions to test the limits of interpersonal connection, would have seemed considerably less bizarre had it been released in time for the first of the film festivals. "virtual". Still at SXSW 2021, it might have been received as a defiant attempt to keep creating even when what his art relies on (humans sharing the screen while trying to share themselves) was unavailable, or at least quite inconvenient to organize. . More than a year later, with the filmmakers enduring whatever it took to deliver everything from small dramas to superhero movies, the compromises are harder to miss. Regardless of how Tribeca's audiences respond this week, it's hard to imagine that There There won't quickly become a curiosity championed only by Bujalski's biggest fans, who will quietly admit that he is the one they love least. Here, we never see two actors on screen at the same time. From the fir...