[Review] Baggage Claim
During the first 20 minutes of Baggage Claim, it dawned on me: if you’re up for this movie, you’ll have a mostly good time. This is simple enough, until mid-fil...
John Fink
[Review] Battle of the Year 3D
Dance movies, typically, are amongst the best kinds of films for 3D, although motion is heavily regulated and carefully controlled. I remember listening to Jon ...
[TIFF Review] People In Places
Opening with a hilarious (and extremely awkward) first date at an empty restaurant, Juan Cavestany’s People In Places is unapologetically strange and often very...
[TIFF Review] Sex, Drugs & Taxation
Imagine for a moment if the heroes of Klown, Frank and Casper, landed in the 60's, at the height of the sexual revolution, and started taking over small Danish ...
[TIFF Review] Beyond the Edge
The narrative-driven documentary Beyond the Edge, arriving on the 60th anniversary of the first successful Everest summit by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norg...
[TIFF Review] Starred Up
In an opening sequence, as he's arriving to adult prison, Eric (Jack O’Connell) is given a thorough inspection in a moment that clues us in to the kind of movie...
[TIFF Review] The Finishers
The Finishers is a wonderful, crowd-pleasing tearjerker from director Nils Tavernier, inspired by the real-life Hoyt family from Holland, MA. Fabien Héraud star...
[TIFF Review] Lucky Them
Starring Toni Collette and directed by Megan Griffiths, Lucky Them is a strong character study centered around a Seattle rarely seen on film: infused with the h...
[TIFF Review] Blood Ties
Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties not only tells a story that’s been wrought so often, but, worse yet, in a manner that lacks the raw, rough, and ready energy of tho...
[TIFF Review] Tracks
A stunningly beautiful film, director John Curran's Tracks traces the physical and psychological 1,700-mile trek of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) from the cen...
John Fink
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.