A funny, light, and heartfelt situation comedy, Go Back to China finds a fashion school graduate Sasha (Anna Akana) in her father’s toy factory after she’s cut ...
A charming remake of the Belgian comedy Hasta La Vista, inspired by actual events, Richard Wong’s Come As You Are is the story of three men with various disabil...
Filmmakers and cinephiles undoubtedly remain haunted by certain urban legends in film. When my mother told me about Snuff, an alleged South American snuff film ...
A brief and ugly affair, Tito is a weird for the sake of weird midnight cult film that overstays itself welcome by design: the patriarchy and its byproduct of o...
Framed with a haunting letter from his grandfather Jack, Everybody’s Everything is a messy portrait of deeply flawed rising star Lil Peep, who passed away at ag...
Set in the pre-broadband era of Las Vegas, 1998, Numa Perrier’s Jezebel is a sensitive rather than exploitative look at legal, entry-level sex work that’s reali...
It’s unthinkable to imagine the intimacy and immediacy of a self-shot film like For Sama even just years ago, without the access to DSLR and mobile phone camera...
A triumph for diversity in casting, The Peanut Butter Falcon is an enormously endearing and often funny drama about two outlaws: Zac (Zack Gottsagen), a 22-year...
An evocative meditation on sight, cinema, and the tools of filmmaking, Rodney Evans' latest feature documentary Vision Portraits is an intimate and generous loo...
Similar to last year’s inclusive comedy Blockers–which proved teen girls deserve their own kind of high school sex comedy like the boys have enjoyed for years–Y...
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.
