If I didn’t chuckle once or twice, I’d be filing a complaint against Sony with the Better Business Bureau for marketing Sex Tape as a comedy. Although not quite...
Hal Hartley’s latest, My America, began in collaboration with Baltimore-based Center Stage as a series of monologues written by 50 American playwrights call...
Collaborating with Baltimore-based Center Stage in My America, director Hal Hartley directs a series of monologues and performances attempting to crack a specif...
Heatstroke, in large part, feels like a very long chase film during its opening. Set in South Africa, it has several bright spots including a first act that inv...
Enduring and funny, Premature, much like last year’s The To Do List, is a useful entry into that time test genre of the summer teen sex comedy. It’s a shame now...
What opens as a slick, promising police procedural quickly jumps off the rails following an awfully efficient first act in Deliver Us From Evil. At around the h...
A timely New York story for any orientation, Love is Strange is Ira Sachs’ most accessible film, until its frustrating ending. Sachs, despite edging towards the...
Taking a page from its 2012 predecessor, crossed with a little Last Vegas and The Hangover, Think Like a Man Too delivers exactly what’d you'd expect; fortunate...
An essential documentary given the dominance of headlines chronicling a new heroin epidemic, Laura Naylor’s The Fix, currently screening at AFI Docs, is a simpl...
A Coffee in Berlin, also known by the name Oh Boy, is calm, cool and collected, a black and white German indie thats as much French New Wave as it is early Rich...
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.
