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...
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...
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.
