During the first 20 minutes of Baggage Claim, it dawned on me: if you’re up for this movie, you’ll have a mostly good time. This is simple enough, until mid-fil...
Dance movies, typically, are amongst the best kinds of films for 3D, although motion is heavily regulated and carefully controlled. I remember listening to Jon ...
Opening with a hilarious (and extremely awkward) first date at an empty restaurant, Juan Cavestany’s People In Places is unapologetically strange and often very...
Imagine for a moment if the heroes of Klown, Frank and Casper, landed in the 60's, at the height of the sexual revolution, and started taking over small Danish ...
The narrative-driven documentary Beyond the Edge, arriving on the 60th anniversary of the first successful Everest summit by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norg...
In an opening sequence, as he's arriving to adult prison, Eric (Jack O’Connell) is given a thorough inspection in a moment that clues us in to the kind of movie...
The Finishers is a wonderful, crowd-pleasing tearjerker from director Nils Tavernier, inspired by the real-life Hoyt family from Holland, MA. Fabien Héraud star...
Starring Toni Collette and directed by Megan Griffiths, Lucky Them is a strong character study centered around a Seattle rarely seen on film: infused with the h...
Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties not only tells a story that’s been wrought so often, but, worse yet, in a manner that lacks the raw, rough, and ready energy of tho...
A stunningly beautiful film, director John Curran's Tracks traces the physical and psychological 1,700-mile trek of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) from the cen...
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.
