Examining the growing pains of The 19th*, a non-profit, non-partisan news agency founded right before COVID swept the United States in 2020, Breaking the News ...
It was just as well that Cypher was the only public screening I attended at this year’s Tribeca Festival that wasn’t preceded by an introduction from a member ...
After getting off to a shaky start, David Duchovny’s second directorial feature Bucky F*cking Dent delivers some hard truths and profound wisdom against the ba...
Robert Evans claims to have told Francis Ford Coppola, after an initial private screening of The Godfather, "You shot a saga, but you turned in a trailer." Unf...
A low-key, poetic exploration of life’s ironies, Monica Sorelle’s feature debut Mountains frames the disappearance of Miami’s Little Haiti with a warm, compass...
With the unfortunate history of portrayals of many marginalized communities, the first films to kick open the door to mainstream representation were often made...
Suffering from genre dysphoria, Renfield has all elements in place for a hilarious comedy but ultimately takes itself just a little too seriously for its conce...
Suffering from many of the same issues as Kasi Lemmons’ Witney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Spinning Gold contains too rich of a life for its 137-minu...
Beginning with the thesis statement “does anything really last," Ian Chaney’s obsessive inquiry The Arc of Oblivion wonders if the act of archiving is really a...
Not unlike the rage sparked within Bong Joon Ho’s now-classic Parasite, Paris Zarcilla's Raging Grace explores a perverse relationship between a wealthy estate...
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.
