Early in McCurry: The Pursuit of Color, renowned photographer Steve McCurry bemoans that the world is becoming an endless airport terminal, devoid of color and...
Despite having premiered in 2019 with some subsequent updates, Alexandra Dalsbaek's documentary We Are Russia still feels as if it is a work-in-progress beyond...
Directed by Marc Shaffer and framed with interviews by film historians, photographers, and actor Gary Oldman, Exposing Muybridge is a fascinating look at a fig...
At the center of Now Return Us to Normal is the desire to understand the trauma of so-called “wilderness schools," remote camps built around the shaky principl...
Directed by former NHL videographer Steven Hoffner, The Cannons follows a year in the life of the Fort Dupont Cannons, one of the nation’s first Black hockey t...
"How can anybody have you and lose you. And not lose their minds, too?"
The criticism of any film, narrative or documentary, wherein a musical artist plays ...
Taking place in the shadows of the Greater Toronto area and a liminal space of poverty, Scarborough isn’t an easy film to shake. A local, low-budget indie prem...
A home invasion thriller with a few predictable twists and turns, See For Me has an intriguing concept that could have transcended the boundaries of a well-wor...
It’s easy to approach as of yet with the same cynicism that one approaches many other pandemic-shot films that take place over text messages, group chats, and ...
Landing somewhere between intense, realistic family drama and arthouse horror, Jonathan Cuartas’ My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell it To is an oddly moving t...
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.
