John Fink

[Review] Rock the Kasbah

What a difference a year makes. The loveable Bill Murray gave one of his most touching and bittersweet performances last fall in St. Vincent. This year, Murray ...

[TIFF Review] Women He’s Undressed

A performative exploration of Australia’s own Orry-Kelly, perhaps most infamously known as Cary Grant's lover, Women He's Undressed is a playful look at the man...

[TIFF Review] Thank You For Bombing

An angry satire, Thank You For Bombing, the latest film from Barbara Eder (Inside America) takes dead aim upon the industry of journalism in war zones. No one i...

[TIFF Review] The Family Fang

The Family Fang provides fuel for a future auteur study of its director Jason Bateman: haunted by his past as a child actor, his work in front of and behind the...

[TIFF Review] Invention

Honoring the spirit of the namesake of TIFF’s Wavelengths program, another Toronto-based filmmaker masterfully plays with space and time creating what has been ...

[TIFF Review] Born to Dance

Apparently kids from Baltimore to County Durham to Auckland have the same problem: parents just don’t understand. So little has changed since Will Smith and DJ ...

[Review] Big Significant Things

Diagnosed some 37 years ago by the poet laureate of the great state of New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen’s song and album of the same name, The Darkness on the Edge...

[Review] Mala Mala

Colorful and beautifully shot, Mala Mala is occasionally as tender and provocative as some of Pedro Almodóvar’s best work. Told through nine subjects, directors...

[Montclair Review] Most Likely to Succeed

There has yet to be a great documentary about education reform. A politicized issue if there was ever one, Greg Whitely, director of Mitt and New York Doll trie...

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.