An evocative personal journey and study of globalization and loneliness, Andrew Hevia’s Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window often veers into silliness as th...
A superbly entertaining new thriller from Ricky Tollman, Run This Town offers a fictionalized account of late Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s well-documented issues ba...
Showing rather than explaining the greatness of Beto O’Rourke as a retail politician who is both engaging and engaged, Running with Beto might not shine too muc...
Despite some endearing passages, Gene Stupnitsky’s uninspired crude tween comedy Good Boys is a cringe-inducing affair. The Seth Rogen-produced summer release f...
With a healthy dose of the occasional crude joke and casual drug use that’s become the hallmark of Seth Rogen’s brand of humor, Long Shot is Notting Hill with g...
I must open this review by simply stating the obvious that some critics might be overlooking: we may not be the audience for Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funera...
By design, there’s a very bad romantic comedy at the center of Isn’t It Romantic. Unfortunately, a one-note romantic comedy with all the tropes isn’t exactly th...
Compelling if messily constructed, Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia tells the story of 83-year-old photographer Letizia Batteglia who took on the Sicilian ma...
When aspiring indie filmmakers first turn their lens on their family, often they’re met with a certain amount of reluctance. For his directorial debut The Disap...
Often hilarious and always a delight, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins is the conversational, down-home story of the Smith College-educated Texan...
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.
