John Fink

[Tribeca Review] Very Semi-Serious

Like Live From New York!, the Saturday Night Live documentary which also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, underscores the difficulty of making a picture a...

[Tribeca Review] TransFatty Lives

TransFatty Lives is a stunning personal documentary directed by Patrick O’Brien aka DJ Transfatty, an artist/filmmaker living with ALS. Produced, written and co...

[Tribeca Review] Live from New York!

Unfortunately lacking deep insight into the Saturday Night Live dynasty, Live From New York! plays as a series of mini-documentaries that might come packaged wi...

[Tribeca Review] In Transit

Ripe with rich source material each worthy of their own feature films, In Transit provides a glance into various lives and narratives. Some intersect and intera...

[Tribeca Review] King Jack

An impressive debut feature from Felix Thompson, King Jack is a powerful day-in-the-life drama following two lower-middle class families at war with each other ...

[Tribeca Review] Killing Them Safely

Killing Them Safely is, above all, an example of excellent, ethical, fair, and balanced journalism allowing both sides to state their case. What emerges in its ...

[Tribeca Review] A Faster Horse

The branded documentary is a curious creation. On one hand, it is dismissive to consider A Faster Horse a car commercial, but as one, it works. The bind the pic...

[Tribeca Review] Dirty Weekend

Returning again to the scope of his previous dialogue-driven films, Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend is a playful buddy comedy with notes of Neil Simon – and a littl...

[Tribeca Review] Cartel Land

Following in the footsteps of the late, great, cinematic badass Michael Glawogger, whose work often put him on the front-lines of the most dangerous jobs (or at...

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.