Here I’m Alive, Joshua Z. Weinstein’s follow-up to his 2017 breakout Menashe, is an intimate and claustrophobic mosaic of New York City life, a film that is bo...
Alex Vlack’s The Revisionist has all the elements of a great comedy of manners before reverting to something quite obviously foreshadowed in the film’s opening...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 SXSW coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29.
A film squarely in the wheelhouse of co-...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 SXSW coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 22.
A parody of dialectical materialism (you...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 10.
Sensitive and nuanced, Katarina Zh...
Thornton Wilder’s meta-play Our Town, a staple of high school productions and English-class readings, has been used countless times onscreen—from its own adapt...
As far as dumb comedies go, Pizza Movie is a masterclass in throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It doesn’t always land, but when it does, it re...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on February 13.
Offering a twist on the body-sw...
Working with her sister Anna—a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a developmental disability—director Liz Sargent’s sensitive drama Take Me Home is both witty and...
A kaleidoscopic celebration of creativity and inquiry into the boundaries of free speech, David Shadrack Smith’s Public Access revisits the birth of cable tele...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
