It's a shame pop musician Charli XCX wasn’t quarantined with anyone with formal film training during the pandemic. Alone Together, her debut feature as co-cine...
Completing his planned trilogy about gay life in Sandusky, Ohio––a town known by most outsiders as the setting for Chris Farley’s Tommy Boy and the home of amu...
Violet, Justine Bateman’s often sharp commentary on a certain side of the movie business, suggests what might have happened if the protagonist of Kitty Green’s...
One of several timely films offering a personal and global perspective on COVID-19, Hannah Olson’s medium-length documentary The Last Cruise is a stirring pers...
Several years ago, South Park asked the question: at what point is it acceptable to make a joke about a tragedy? The answer within that universe was 20 years. ...
What more can you say about a guy who’s been an open book for the last two-and-a-half decades? Herein lies the challenge of Malcolm Ingram’s warm, American Mas...
Flipping a traditional formula on its head, Mari Walker’s haunting feature film debut See You Then begins simply enough: we're introduced to a reunion that tak...
Arriving on the festival circuit just as a group of Ivy League-educated millionaires in Congress punted on raising the minimum wage, Edson Jean’s Ludi is an of...
Sidestepping the curse that has befallen lesser behind-the-scenes documentaries taking on subjects with an immense archival body amassed over the course of dec...
It’s difficult to know where to begin when telling a story as vast as California’s wildfires, which with stunning frequency seem to have an impact on two very ...
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.
