John Fink

[Review] Junior

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...

[Review] Off Label

Diving into the challenging subject of “off label” drug use, Off Label examines a distinctively American epidemic  -- as Bill Maher joked about Michael Jackson ...

[Review] The Smurfs 2

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...

[Review] The To Do List

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...

[Review] Terms and Conditions May Apply

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 ...

[Review] Grown Ups 2

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...

[Review] Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain

Directed by Leslie Small and Tim Story, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain is more of a Comedy Central special than a theatrical film. This isn’t to say Kevin Hart does...

[NYAFF Review] Juvenile Offender

Yi-Kwan Kang’s Juvenile Offender is a film 2Pac would have endorsed, as its struggle feels completely universal: misguided youths are bound to repeat when anoth...

[Review] The Secret Disco Revolution

More snarky than academic, Jamie Kastner’s Secret Disco Revolution begins with the thesis that disco was an underground movement orchestrated by the shadowy pow...

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.