In more confident hands, Truth or Dare might have been something worthwhile. The concept of a viral Truth or Dare game where the main rule is “if I’m lying, I’m...
After a four-year hiatus from melodrama, Tyler Perry has returned with one of his most rousing pictures yet, Acrimony, which lands somewhere between Douglas Sir...
After finishing up HBO's cult hit Vice Principals last year, Jody Hill returns to the big screen (or, rather, small, as it's headed to Netflix) with The Legacy ...
Stretching what would have made a delightfully compelling short film into a feature of unbearable length, From All Corners feels like the worst kind of branded ...
There’s an exciting world beyond the typical Manhattan-centric image that comes to mind when we think “New York City." Jeremy Workman's documentary The World Be...
Despite being billed as a documentary about the subject, Alt-Right: Age of Rage doesn’t know what to make of the modern day neo-Nazi movement. At least some of ...
A trippy take on genetic engineering, Perfect is a mind-altering film that, depending on the viewer's sensibilities, will either be an expressionist gem or a ho...
Set in a dry, dystopian future where a half gallon of clean water goes for $12, Julia Hart's Fast Color is a superhero origin story about a unique family on the...
Adapted from the novel by Nic Pizzolatto, the fourth feature from Mélanie Laurent, Galveston, focuses on perhaps the least interesting part of its narrative, cl...
An indictment of modern hook-up culture, The New Romantic offers an often surprisingly funny look at one aspiring journalist’s experimentation with a sugar dadd...
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.
