Opening in New London, CT, Lou Howe’s Gabriel begins with its title character (played by Rory Culkin) in search of his long-lost girlfriend Alice with the inten...
“We live in cities, you’ll never see on screen. Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things," says Lorde her hit Team. The opening moments of Home, Jame...
The latest cockumentary, The Final Member has somewhat grander ambitions than Brian Spitz’s quest UnHung Hero, where a size-conscious fellow attempts to unzip g...
Cuban Fury mostly delivers the kind of funny, silly and delightful comedy as you’d expect from something “based on an original idea” by Nick Frost, best known a...
A sort-of counter-balance to Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, The Retrieval is the story of Will (Ashton Sanders) on the run from, and in collaboration with, w...
A guy walks into a bar in a sleepy suburban town, asks a girl where the nearest motel is; girl takes boy home and asks him to stay for good. Jessica Goldberg’s ...
The general mood and tone of the reporting out of CinemaCon, the last week's Las Vegas-based conference for movie theater owners, is essentially, "well, what’s next?" With two anxieties -- international piracy and the digital transition -- quelled, the focus appears to be on new apps like recliner seating, laser projection, 4D, advertising, growing attendance and living in harmony with other “screens."...
Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez is an entertaining history lesson, but not quite an exact biopic; the story restricts its focus to a five-year period, ending with the...
Directed by David Ayer, Sabotage isn’t quite the police procedural-meets-character study of his previous feature, and his finest work, End of Watch. Ayer, inter...
A little too on the nose, Stay, directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld (best known for her work as an editor) is a romantic drama rich in atmosphere. Starring Taylor...
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.
