John Fink

Montclair Review: Is That Black Enough For You?!? is a Warm and Wise Exploration of Blaxploitation Film

A comprehensive, personal, and kaleidoscopic look at representation, Elvis Mitchell’s Is That Black Enough For You?!? is a passionate and loving walk through f...

Montclair Review: I Like It Here is a Captivating Present-Day Meditation on the Past

A meditation on growing old, growing wiser, and all of life’s transitions, Ralph Arlyck’s personal documentary I Like It Here is a warm, witty, loose, discursi...

Elvis Mitchell on the History of Black Cinema and the Path to Diversify Hollywood

Film connoisseur, cultural critic, and master conversationalist Elvis Mitchell crafts a kaleidoscopic yet personal history of Black cinema with his feature fil...

TIFF Review: V/H/S/99 is a Fun Enough Rewind to the Dawn of Y2K

The inescapable problem at the core of any omnibus or anthology film with multiple cooks in the kitchen is, by all design, things will be uneven. Yet V/H/S/99 ...

Clerks III Review: A Jersey Boy Comes Home Again

For die-hards who have been there from the beginning, it can be frustrating to watch the evolution of a filmmaker's work as they branch out and try their hand ...

Tribeca Review: Subject Turns its Lens Inwards to Interrogate Documentary Ethics

The relationship between documentary subject and documentarian has been fraught with conflict since the genre’s evolution beyond “actualities” and into a narra...

Tribeca Review: B. J. Novak’s Directorial Debut Vengeance is a Smart Comic Thriller

Despite its generic title, B.J. Novak’s feature-directing debut Vengeance is a smart, subversive fish-out-of-water comedy about a stereotypical coastal elite t...

Tribeca Review: The Drop Falls Flat

Considering comedy is entirely subjective and in the eye of the beholder, I suspect fans of the comedians in Sarah Adina Smith's The Drop––allowed free reign t...

Tribeca Review: Aisha is a Minor But Impactful Work of Social Realism

Roger Ebert once said movies are like a machine that generates empathy. Such is the third feature by Frank Berry (Michael Inside, I Used to Live Here). Followi...

Tribeca Review: The Black Phone Exists in an Uncanny Valley Between Realism and the Supernatural

Despite the rich texture of its late-1970s setting—the beginning of the latch-key kid era—Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone fails to transcend its central pre...

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Reviews

Cannes Review: All We Imagine as Light is a Drama of Profound Beauty

Cannes Review: Misericordia is a Galvanizing Ode to the Power and Subversiveness of Desire

The Best Films of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Cutter’s Way, Princess Mononoke, Jacques Rivette, & More

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Interviews

“Films Can’t Fix Lives”: Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers!, The Fabelmans, and Jean-Luc Godard

Yorgos Lanthimos on the Caligula-Inspired Kinds of Kindness and Finding Hope in Humanity

John Wilson on Viewing Habits, Burning Man Regrets, and Life After How To…

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Classic – Field of Dreams (with Noah Gittell)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Eric Bana

The Film Stage Show Ep. 538 – I Saw the TV Glow (with Katie Rife)

John Fink

Montclair Review: Is That Black Enough For You?!? is a Warm and Wise Exploration of Blaxploitation Film

Montclair Review: I Like It Here is a Captivating Present-Day Meditation on the Past

Elvis Mitchell on the History of Black Cinema and the Path to Diversify Hollywood

TIFF Review: V/H/S/99 is a Fun Enough Rewind to the Dawn of Y2K

Clerks III Review: A Jersey Boy Comes Home Again

Tribeca Review: Subject Turns its Lens Inwards to Interrogate Documentary Ethics

Tribeca Review: B. J. Novak’s Directorial Debut Vengeance is a Smart Comic Thriller

Tribeca Review: The Drop Falls Flat

Tribeca Review: Aisha is a Minor But Impactful Work of Social Realism

Tribeca Review: The Black Phone Exists in an Uncanny Valley Between Realism and the Supernatural

John Fink