A superbly entertaining new thriller from Ricky Tollman, Run This Town offers a fictionalized account of late Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s well-documented issues ba...
Showing rather than explaining the greatness of Beto O’Rourke as a retail politician who is both engaging and engaged, Running with Beto might not shine too muc...
Despite some endearing passages, Gene Stupnitsky’s uninspired crude tween comedy Good Boys is a cringe-inducing affair. The Seth Rogen-produced summer release f...
With a healthy dose of the occasional crude joke and casual drug use that’s become the hallmark of Seth Rogen’s brand of humor, Long Shot is Notting Hill with g...
I must open this review by simply stating the obvious that some critics might be overlooking: we may not be the audience for Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funera...
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...
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.
