Highest rated movie: Examined Life (2008)
Lowest rated movie: What Is Democracy? (2018)
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Movies starring Astra Taylor have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
Examined Life - released in 2008 - is Astra Taylor's highest rated movie, with a score of 68% based on 55 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Astra Taylor is What Is Democracy? - released in 2018 - with a score of 63% based on 8 reviews.
Astra Taylor (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1979) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for her 2005 film, Zizek!, about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and for her 2008 film, Examined Life.
Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia, and was unschooled until age 13. She attended Brown University for a year and holds an MA in Liberal Studies from the New School. She has taught sociology at the University of Georgia and SUNY New Paltz. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, and in 2006 Filmmaker Magazine listed her as one of "25 new faces to watch." She is the sister of painter and disability activist Sunny Taylor, and is married to Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. She is a vegan.
Astra Taylor has acted in films with Slavoj Žižek, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Cornel West.
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