Set deep in the heart of Texas, Daniel Laabs’ Jules of Light and Dark explores the landscape of recovery as an unlikely friendship is formed between college stu...
If anything, Safe Spaces gets right what it’s like to be on the lowest wrung of the career ladder in academia. Justin Long stars as Josh, a creative writing and...
Beyond Cinderella’s castle and Universal’s Islands of Adventure is the long-forgotten Redneck Orlando. I use the term because the family at the center of Red, W...
Directed by sound editor Midge Costin, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound provides a rich overview of motion picture sound, from the era in which sounds w...
You don’t need immersive technologies like Dolby Cinema, Screen X or 4DX to feel the effects of The Hustle. After 94 minutes without a single laugh, you’ll defi...
The well-crafted What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a fascinating tribute to a maverick film critic who celebrated high and low art indiscriminately...
A riveting and creepy slow burn, Something Else imagines a second kind of “darkness on the edge of town," that feeling one might experience right between teenho...
We learn early in Framing John DeLorean that many films about the famed car maker have died on the vine in pre-production, yet Don Argot and Sheena Joyce try–wi...
An affectionate documentary chronicling the life of 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and taboo breaker Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, is often de...
From the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland to Freehold, New Jersey the emotions are all the same: young men and women dream of abandoning the “suicide trap” of a sm...
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.
