I feel as if I learned very little from One Direction: This is Us, a movie that is more of a consumer product or an event than an actual feature film. My guess ...
Screen Gems ought to have waited to release The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones in early September while the critical world was distracted at the Toronto Inte...
Actor-turned-director Jeff Chamberlain’s Abandoned Mine is harmless enough, which is a major letdown considering this is a horror/thriller. The premise is simpl...
Jobs is the kind of biopic that I arrive at with baggage; while I did not personally know Steve Jobs, I’ve been a follower of his life, from his famous product ...
Jenna Rosher’s Junior is an extraordinary, intimate look at a the Belasco family. Eddie is a 75-year old guy who has retired from a life of hard drinking and wo...
Diving into the challenging subject of “off label” drug use, Off Label examines a distinctively American epidemic -- as Bill Maher joked about Michael Jackson ...
Screening The Smurfs 2 on the day of Ariel Castro’s sentencing, the film took on a whole aura of disturbing; we follow a smurf-napping of little blonde Smurfett...
Above all, the To Do List announces the arrival of Aubrey Plaza, movie star, with a role that takes full advantage of the awkward persona she's now best-known f...
In 2009, Ondi Timoner (briefly interviewed in Terms and Conditions) chronicled an art project turned quasi-cult in her remarkable account of Josh Harris’ Quiet ...
File this one under, "how can it be wrong when it feels so right." Grown Ups 2 isn’t quite a guilty pleasure, but as a fun summer comedy it hits the spot, or pe...
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.
