There’s an entire universe out there, even when it feels like your corner of the world has been turned upside down. Who has not felt like they’ve been roaming ...
By design, Ed Perkins’ The Princess keeps a healthy, mediated distance from its subject, the late Princess of Wales. After all, the news is the first draft of ...
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2021, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
It’s...
Bouncing between multiple timelines before, during, and after the US’s “War on Terror," Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan is a film that unfolds rather ...
Early in McCurry: The Pursuit of Color, renowned photographer Steve McCurry bemoans that the world is becoming an endless airport terminal, devoid of color and...
Despite having premiered in 2019 with some subsequent updates, Alexandra Dalsbaek's documentary We Are Russia still feels as if it is a work-in-progress beyond...
Directed by Marc Shaffer and framed with interviews by film historians, photographers, and actor Gary Oldman, Exposing Muybridge is a fascinating look at a fig...
At the center of Now Return Us to Normal is the desire to understand the trauma of so-called “wilderness schools," remote camps built around the shaky principl...
Directed by former NHL videographer Steven Hoffner, The Cannons follows a year in the life of the Fort Dupont Cannons, one of the nation’s first Black hockey t...
"How can anybody have you and lose you. And not lose their minds, too?"
The criticism of any film, narrative or documentary, wherein a musical artist plays ...
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.
