John Fink

[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...
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[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...

[TIFF Review] Greetings from Tim Buckley

Dan Algrant’s Greetings from Tim Buckley simultaneously tracks the artistic development of musician father and son Tim and Jeff Buckley at around the same times...

[TIFF Review] Ship of Theseus

The opening title explains that the Ship of Theseus was replaced, piece by piece, and rebuilt into a new ship – therefore the questions is asked: which ship is ...

[TIFF Review] Seven Psychopaths

It takes a deranged mind to be this fascinated with psychopaths, let alone seven of them. Colin Farrell’s Marty gets to quite literally take his work home with ...

[Review] 2016: Obama’s America

I’m not sure what to make of the core argument of 2016: Obama’s America, a film with exotic locations and a logic that seems to fall apart as it hurls towards i...

[Review] The Expendables 2

Sylvester Stallone is a senior citizen. And he’s not too old for this shit. The Expendables 2 is a glorious summer guilty pleasure – unapologetically badass, it...

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.