John Fink

[Tribeca Review] Run & Jump

Steph Green’s Run & Jump is a film that will grow on you, slowly and subtly absorbing you into its world. With an observant structure, we are the third whee...

[Tribeca Review] Lil Bub & Friendz

Oh, the internet. I wonder if you really have lead to a decrease in my productivity: on one hand, it’s full of almost everything, including cute cats. Then ther...

[Tribeca Review] Lenny Cooke

Lenny Cooke is to basketball as Anvil is to rock-n-roll, and like Anvil, he now has a documentary. A departure for filmmakers Ben and Joshua Safdie who’s previo...

[Tribeca Review] Frankenstein’s Army

Frankenstein’s Army is a B-movie in every sense of the word. Not without laughs, moments of blood, gore and primitive surgery as its name suggests, the film unf...

[Review] The Brass Teapot

A few years ago a professor of mine once cautioned that when times get tough, young people are more likely to sell their soul for cash, allowing themselves to b...

[Review] InAPPropriate Comedy

I should sue TV pitchman Vince Offer for false advertising: a comedy implies humor and potentially laughter, yet not one laugh is found within easily the worst ...

[SXSW Review] Good Vibrations

“When it comes to punk:, New York has the haircuts, London has the treasures, but Belfast has the reason, ” Terri Hooley remarks in Good Vibrations, the latest ...

[SXSW Review] Medora

Medora is an especially powerful and perceptive film, telling a story all too familiar and perhaps all too real -- this is what the shrinking middle and lower c...

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.