Bleak and harrowing, Starred Up is a prison picture that pushes the boundaries. The film opens with the graphic examination of Eric (Jack O’Connell) a teen ...
Riveting entertainment, Dinosaur 13 is one of those happy accidents of documentary filmmaking. Speaking on a panel before its screening at the Montclair Film Fe...
After four entries into the Step Up saga I knew exactly what to expect upon entering the latest, Step Up All In. Like the pornography of yesteryear, the Step Up...
I feel a bit like François Truffaut diagnosing “A Certain Tendency of French Cinema," but after In Our Nature, The Big Ask, Lullaby, and now Jesse Zwick’s About...
The Dog is a lively, epic documentary biography of John Wojtowicz, an anti-hero of sorts in New York’s gay rights movement. A later episode in his life would be...
Shifting modes from his previous personal investigations, Alex Gibney, perhaps the second-greatest documentary filmmaker working today, is absent from his lates...
The strangest thing about Come Back to Me is once all the clues are revealed in an improbable bit of exposition, the ideas behind the film could spawn a strange...
As far as first introductions go, The Fluffy Movie slightly overstays its welcome. I admit this is my first exposure to Fluffy (aka Gabriel Iglesias), a Mexican...
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...
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.
