One of the more emotionally taxing features to earn the classification of “midnight movie” -- at least in this year’s Sundance program -- fearless writer-direct...
A gentle and often whimsical look at the art of raising children at Ireland’s only primary boarding school, Headford, School Life is a warm work of cinéma vérit...
Highlighting the economies of migrant workers from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya living and working in Qatar as the country prepares for the 2022 FIFA World Cu...
Dedicated to Michael Brown Jr., Whose Streets? is an alarming and vital documentary chronicling the grassroots formation of Black Lives Matter as well as effort...
MoviePass, the innovative attempt at “interrupting” the model of traditional cinema exhibition, is finding itself in the line of attack from subscribers on social media due to a change to the how the service allocates tickets to subscribers and subsequent system glitch....
If Sleepless doesn't seem like it is doing anything new it's, well, not. A remake of Frederic Jardin’s 2011 thriller Nuit blanche (Sleepless Night) rebooted as ...
Filmmaker Peter Berg is not in the business of subtlety. He creates action films at a human scale, and Patriots Day is just that, trying to do too much in its 1...
Undoubtably the dirtiest mainstream comedy of the year, Bad Santa 2 is lacking the critical elements of surprise and heart the first film had underneath its nih...
Making a film often requires one to exhibit behaviors therapists associate with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), which is territory the filmmaker Rebbie R...
Pleasant, if not completely convoluted with too many characters and not enough development with any, the family ensemble comedy Almost Christmas is well-meaning...
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.
