Earning a grand jury prize at this year's Sundance, The Russian Woodpecker is an exhilarating collaboration between US-based filmmaker Chad Gracia and Ukrainian...
Thought Crimes gets a lot of mileage out of its subject: the online activity of Gilberto Valle aka the NYPD’s Cannibal Cop whose fantasies involved kidnapping a...
Irritably charming, Les Combattants (which will be released later this month as Love at First Fight in the U.S.) is a warm summer romance destined to be remade ...
At multiple points throughout Tim K. Smith’s Sex and Broadcasting we’re told its subject, the Jersey City radio station WFMU, should not exist. It's not an NPR ...
While generations of high school films have used the prom or homecoming as a climax, the stakes have never simultaneously been so high or paradoxically as low a...
As odd as it is endearing, Michael Showalter’s Hello, My Name is Doris is a rare character-driven comedy that hinges upon the believability of its central relat...
Inspired by Dan Ariely’s book of a similar title, (Dis)honesty: The Truth About Lies provides anecdotal experiences with various justifications for lying alongs...
While the state of Maryland debates the difference between absentee and free-range parenting, God Bless the Child, directed by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda...
Those that find Noah Baumbach too neurotic ought to stand clear of a entirely different brand of neurosis from American-Turkish Brooklynite writer-director-star...
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.
