While several films open every year chronicle the multiple facets of the European Jewish experience of World War II, there's only a select few about the Armenia...
With all the markings (and trappings) of his usual tastes, Woman in Gold is a minor entry into the canon of Harvey Weinstein auteur theory, a film that has part...
If the bank of trustworthiness requires constant investment, Alex Gibney’s previous work pays dividends in what is his most challenging film to date, Going Clea...
If there's one lesson director Bert Marcus ought to have learned from his subjects is that focus and determination is everything. Like a young kid channeling al...
An unexpected franchise (both the hotel and the film), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is essentially a gentle sitcom. It's a form of comfort food that de...
With more substance than a run-of-the-mill Todd Phillips comedy, Unfinished Business pairs a team that knows the territory of fatherhood well: writer Steven Con...
A vanity project that is, above all, a mixed bag, Ryan Piers Williams has committed the sin of New York filmmakers of a certain status with access to crews and ...
In the wake of Rolling Stone’s sloppy journalism chronicling a campus rape at UVA, a trend of defection has painfully occurred: slut-shaming, victim blaming and...
There is conservative and then there is conservative. Old Fashioned, released as a kind of counter-programing to another very creepy picture about contractual m...
The transgender community are having a moment and now they have a date movie that above all succeeds as a well-written romantic comedy, if not a bit too on the ...
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.
