Cinema is often a space for abstract, subconscious expressions that require airing. Under The Shadow is an inspired psychological thriller from Iranian filmmake...
Tender and haunting, So Yong Kim’s Lovesong is a carefully observed, nuanced character study beautifully written, directed and edited. Much of the action, like ...
They may be “red and white and never blue” and they may “not even supposed to be here today,” but the clerks of Eh-2-Zed are certainly having an abnormal adoles...
A wise woman named Sheryl Crow once said, “a change will do you good." For Irene, a pretty 23-year old-ish artistically inclined misfit, it’s as simple as a hai...
Three bank robbers walk into a dysfunctional home on the prairie in JT Mollner's cold-blooded Outlaws and Angels, filmed and premiering at Sundance in glorious ...
Premiering at Sundance 25 years after his seminal second feature film, Slacker, Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny, produced for the PBS series American Master...
Perhaps the most inside-baseball of films at Sundance this year, JJ Garvine and Tai Parquet’s Film Hawk is an intimate look at film consultant extraordinaire Bo...
An exploration of movement, motion, liminality, childhood and racial politics, The Fits is a fascinating psychological study of Toni (fearlessly played by Royal...
When it works, it works -- and, more often than not, Dirty Grandpa lands big, sometimes awkward laughs. While more Todd Phillips than Solondz, director Dan Maze...
We get it. Ice Cube is the stone-cold straight man and Kevin Hart is incapable of subtly. The first Ride Along was an occasionally fun romp; imperfect, but it k...
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.
