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...
Haemoo is an effective moral thriller that immediately mirrors the best work of its co-writer and producer Bong Joon-ho. What starts as slow and straight-forwar...
Adapted from a New Yorker essay and directed by Isabel Coixet (Elegy), Learning to Drive is often tender and delightful. Traversing territory covered in her pre...
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.
