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 ...
Delightful and funny in a cheesy, silly way, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is a kind of cinematic sugar rush. While, like a Krabby Patty, not entirel...
A strong and impressive debut, Take Me To The River was one of the most accomplished features we saw at Sundance. Telling the story of a teenager Ryder (Log...
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.
