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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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," ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
