John Fink

[Tribeca Review] Nerdland

Providing an escape valve for Andrew Kevin Walker, known for far more serious films about would-be serial killers (8MM, Seven), Nerdland is an almost biting com...

[Tribeca Review] Women Who Kill

Morbid curiosities make for unusual romantic comedy fodder in Ingrid Jungermann’s perceptive and often very funny Women Who Kill. Set on the streets of Brooklyn...

[Tribeca Review] My Scientology Movie

The central problem of making a film about secretive organizations and pyramid schemes like Scientology or Herbalife is that they can retain some control of the...

[Tribeca Review] King Cobra

Throw Boogie Nights, Shooting Porn, Downloading Nancy, and Party Monster in a blender, add some cocaine, a scope of whey protein and squirt of lube and you’ve g...

[Tribeca Review] Do Not Resist

A film that may lead to important conversation regarding where the ethical lines are drawn between advancing technology and the extent to which peaceful protest...

[Tribeca Review] The Happy Film

So it turns out the key to happiness is Zoloft and a gorgeous women 20 years your senior. At least that's the message in Stefan Sagmeister and Ben Nabors' The H...

[Tribeca Review] Detour

A gleeful throwback to a genre that unfortunately jumped the shark years ago, Detour harkens back to the '90s noir that ultimately met its death with one too ma...

[Tribeca Review] Betting on Zero

A documentary reminiscent of The Big Short on a smaller and less-successful scale, director Ted Braun’s Betting on Zero has a narrow focus and an unlikely hero:...

[Tribeca Review] All This Panic

Shot over a three-year period in Brooklyn, All This Panic offers a frequently disjointed look at the interior lives of several ordinary, middle-class Brooklynit...

[SXSW Review] Tower

Utilizing an engaging mix of newly filmed footage rotoscoped à la Waking Life, archival materials, and interviews, Tower employs a verbatim style to capture the...

John Fink

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.