By design, there’s a very bad romantic comedy at the center of Isn’t It Romantic. Unfortunately, a one-note romantic comedy with all the tropes isn’t exactly th...
Compelling if messily constructed, Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia tells the story of 83-year-old photographer Letizia Batteglia who took on the Sicilian ma...
When aspiring indie filmmakers first turn their lens on their family, often they’re met with a certain amount of reluctance. For his directorial debut The Disap...
Often hilarious and always a delight, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins is the conversational, down-home story of the Smith College-educated Texan...
Diagnosing the fire that fuels the extreme right wing in Sweden as well as the business interests (publications, record labels, the political machine) that it p...
As far as PG-13 horror films released in January go, Escape Room exceeds expectations despite a fairly sloppy (yet efficient) set-up which traces three of the s...
Playing out like a Saturday Night Live or Funny or Die sketch that does go on for a beat–or several hundred–too long, writer-director Etan Cohen’s adaption of S...
A time capsule that’s as fresh and powerful an experience as it must have been when recorded live in Watts in 1972, Amazing Grace is arguably one of the year’s ...
Who among us hasn’t watched a TV series and felt as if we had gotten to intimately know our favorite characters? Certain shows barely get the opportunity to “ju...
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.
