John Fink

[Tribeca Review] The Ticket

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, which is one of the lessons that the protagonist at the heart of Ido Fluk’s moral thriller The Ticket learns...

[Tribeca Review] Check It

The Check It, like many other gangs, arrived out of necessity to protect their own. In the case of the Washington, D.C.-based gang which counts over 250 members...

[Tribeca Review] Bugs

Somewhere between Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Food, Inc., at the intersection of culinary adventure and social justice, Nordic Food Lab’s head chef Ben Reade and l...

[Tribeca Review] Keep Quiet

Keep Quiet is a chilling and comprehensive documentary following the path to redemption – or a calculated political act – for Csanad Szegedi, a right-wing anti-...

[Tribeca Review] National Bird

Calling for a national conversation that we ought to be having on the use of lethal force, National Bird considers all sides of the program, from those pulling ...

[Tribeca Review] Nerdland

Providing an escape valve for Andrew Kevin Walker, known for far more serious films about would-be serial killers (8MM, Seven), Nerdland is an almost biting com...

[Tribeca Review] Women Who Kill

Morbid curiosities make for unusual romantic comedy fodder in Ingrid Jungermann’s perceptive and often very funny Women Who Kill. Set on the streets of Brooklyn...

[Tribeca Review] My Scientology Movie

The central problem of making a film about secretive organizations and pyramid schemes like Scientology or Herbalife is that they can retain some control of the...

[Tribeca Review] King Cobra

Throw Boogie Nights, Shooting Porn, Downloading Nancy, and Party Monster in a blender, add some cocaine, a scope of whey protein and squirt of lube and you’ve g...

John Fink

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.