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...
Lacking the accessibility of Guy Maddin’s earlier and most accomplished features, including My Winnipeg and Brand Upon The Brain, one ought to enter The Forbidd...
A rich and moving character-driven drama, Across the Sea, from first time filmmakers Nisan Dag and Esra Saydam, transposes a few tropes you might find in mumble...
Falling short of the best political sausage making films and TV series such as The War Room and Tanner 88, Sweet Micky For President is a somewhat insightful if...
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.
