Arriving a few years after Jim Jarmusch’s rosy portrait of New Jersey’s third-largest city, Paterson, Jean-Cosme Delaloye (Stray Bullet) returns to the town. ...
Set in the remote village of Ainu, a UNESCO World Heritage site that has been transformed into a tourist destination filled with shops and performances, Ainu M...
Well-meaning but often repetitive, Hydration is a behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the inaugural year of the much-needed Something In The Water festival...
Avoiding the trappings of other melodramas about the short lives of terminally ill teens, Asia is a restrained and nuanced exploration of the relationship betw...
Any professional dealing with routine levels of stress and trauma is bound to develop a morbid sense of humor–and the funny horror-comedy 12 Hour Shift might b...
Before a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour a few years ago at the New York Film Festival, programmer Dennis Lim read a note from t...
Exploring the relationships between comedians and the women that made them funny, Call Your Mother is a fun and sincere ode to the creative process. Directed b...
There’s something wonderful about a childhood experience like those chronicled in Through the Night, a film that mostly looks at the hardships of motherhood bu...
Channeling both his debut feature The Lie and Humpday, his mumblecore outing with director Lynn Shelton, Joshua Leonard's Fully Realized Humans is an emotional...
Even with its two-hour running time, the experience of watching Spike Jonze’s "live documentary" Beastie Boys Story has the feeling of a breezy, intimate, and ...
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.
