Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...
Written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, Dhoom 3 is a stand-alone film that has been breaking global box-office records. If you, like me, missed the first...
All the Light in the Sky, the latest film from Joe Swanberg, brings us back to his closed world of film festivals, recruiting filmmaker pals like Ti West and So...
Paul Walker, who will forever be remembered as an action star, is an interesting choice to lead Eric Heisserer’s Hours, a drama with elements that seem borrowed...
Guess who’s coming to dinner? It’s Madea and Larry the Cable Guy. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas is another fascinating trainwreck of a Tyler Perry film. Like ...
I admit I’m unfamiliar with Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, a libretto that serves as the source material for Fox Searchlight's latest release, but I have a fe...
A little over two years ago, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, I walked into a small Toronto art house and discovered the gem that is Starbuck, the French-Canadian c...
Walk with me back to a kinder, gentler time before Tyler Perry; The Best Man arrived in 1999 as another entry into a movement that was long overdue. Love Jones ...
With his latest feature, prolific documentary legend Frederick Wiseman continues his cycle of examining institutions, beginning in a Massachusetts hospital ...
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is a rather challenging film to review; like his other, rather useful The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (and his collaborations with...
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.
