[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...
John Fink
[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...
[Review] Taken 2
Opening next week, Seven Psychopaths contains a scene that sums up the MacGuffin driving Taken 2 – Sam Rockwell ponders the a validity of “an eye for an eye," c...
[TIFF Review] London – The Modern Babylon
London - The Modern Babylon inspires envy: someone needs to make a film like this about every town and city, worldwide. Many aren’t as culturally as significant...
[TIFF Review] First Comes Love
Perhaps all of the films are starting to run together. Nina Davenport’s often hilarious and extraordinarily brave First Comes Love finishes a trilogy of very ho...
[TIFF Review] Janeane from Des Moines
It’s so easy to take cheap shots at the Tea Party; in fact what Bill Maher can do in a joke or a monologue, Janeane from Des Moines spends 77 minutes doing with...
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.