John Fink

[Review] Fourplay

Kyle Henry’s Fourplay is a curious case: an anthology of individual films with production dates from 2010-onwards exploring broadly sex between species, heteros...

[Review] Movie 43

The day has yet come in which Tom Green’s Freddie Got Fingered has been considered a landmark of surrealism, nor I fear will it for the uneven, half-baked gross...

[Review] Parental Guidance

Silly and loveable, Parental Guidance hits me at a critical blind spot. It’s an entertaining piece of craft that harkens back to the silly post-Latchkey kid Chr...

[Review] The Guilt Trip

Perhaps the best advice on marriage is that you shouldn’t marry someone whom you can’t spend three days next to on a train. But as The Guilt Trip highlights, yo...

[Review] The Collection

The Collection is a rare horror film that touches a nerve, although perhaps I was in a receptive mood. Indulge me for a moment: the film is a fetishization, eve...

[Review] My Own Worst Nightmare

My Own Worst Nightmare is a distinctively French farce with Isabelle Huppert as Agathe, an executive director of an art gallery and a model member of the bourge...

[Review] Fun Size

Fun size candy is always a disappointment -- much like the movie of the same name, also misleading in suggesting it's both “fun” and a critique of “Halloween," ...

[Austin Review] Elemental

An intense focus on globalization connects three strands at the core of the Elemental. although the broader theme is we are all connected by virtue of starting ...

[Review] Paranormal Activity 4

Allow me to evoke the great Tom Petty once more: the waiting is the hardest part. The Paranormal Activity “brand”--  because at this point they aren’t movies, s...

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.