Needy and broad, Take Care is an exhausting experience for all the wrong reasons. Expanding what might make for an effective 20-minute short with carefully obse...
Sweet and silly, Dr. Cabbie follows in the footsteps of broad Bollywood and Canadian comedies melding both sensibilities into a contemporary narrative that’s as...
Let’s just admit it up front: every religion has interesting, funny, good-hearted folks that are trying to make the world a better place. In fact, I’m willing t...
Tracing the life, times and political ideology behind Nas’ groundbreaking 20-year old album, Time Is Illmatic is a new seminal hip-hop documentary. Much like La...
At a certain point around the hour mark, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films starts to lose its energy. Beginning as a hilarious and insig...
Down on his luck and out one night at his local Bronx watering hole, Louis Ortiz, an unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx, is told for the hundredth ti...
Arriving in theaters a year after its initial festival bow, John Curran’s stunningly beautiful film Tracks traces the 1,700 mile trek of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) from the central Australian town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean....
Vibrant yet straight-forward, Alumbrones documents the condition Cuban artists of multiple generations face as they practice their work not within a vacuum, but...
Despite an opening suggesting we’re in for a meticulous modern Western, The Frontier, directed by Matt Rabinowitz, embodies the mood, atmosphere and longing fou...
Deceptively gentle and delightful, High Society is a distinctively French drama of manors from Julie Lopes-Curval who knows this territory intimately. (Lopes-Cu...
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.
