Lullaby is the kind of film that’s best described as a having been cobbled together from an indie scrapyard. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Andrew...
At a recent panel at the Montclair Film Festival, Michael Moore and several filmmakers working within the mode of documentary film discussed the tension between...
At the risk of sounding like a critic full of zingers, The Big Ask requires just that of the audience: a suspension of disbelief. The problem is we’ve seen this...
Lacking the hype of virtually every other film franchise releasing its latest installment this summer, Chinese Puzzle is the latest in Cédric Klapisch’s trilogy...
Cyber-Seniors, a personal documentary directed, narrated and edited by Saffron Cassaday (who remains mostly off camera), opens with the explanation that the ins...
Entertaining in moments, but not terribly progressive, Moms' Night Out presents an aspirational film that we rarely see in -- dare I say -- the “secular media,"...
Opening with the fitting quote “I get knocked down, but I get up again" (attributed to Vince Lombardi instead of the British pop band Chumbawamba), Intramural i...
Perhaps the lessons in history class have changed in the era of transparency, however, the 1971 burglary of an FBI field office in Media, PA seems to have been ...
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State is comprehensive biographic documentary of the fiery, hilarious Texas grandma-turned-governor Ann Richar...
Every Secret Thing effectively melds the sensibilities of its director Amy Berg (best known for her feature documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memph...
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.
