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Review of Icaros: A Vision (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 May 2017

Once in a while a narrator relates facts about the forest; occasional CGI flourishes don’t disappoint so much as they remind us of the challenges…

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Review of The Last Shaman (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2017

On occasion, director Degan attempts to capture the plant's power via psychedelic montage, layering colors over jungle footage and Freeman's…

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Review of Lowriders (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2017

Other than a from-nowhere burst of violence that nearly destroys the movie, Lowriders is a refreshingly muted celebration of family and forgiveness,…

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Review of The Wall (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 May 2017

Liman, for all his action acuity, struggles to make lying behind a wall exciting…

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Review of The Wall (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 May 2017

Liman, for all his action acuity, struggles to make lying behind a wall exciting…

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Review of The Circle (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2017

Ponsoldt’s film is caught between comedy and paranoid thriller. I fear he half-asses the latter…

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Review of Casting JonBenet (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Apr 2017

Green's doc — like the case at its center — defies resolution or easy answers…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Apr 2017

As drama and spectacle, it’s not quite first-rate — I rarely feared for these characters or believed that I knew their souls, and George…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Apr 2017

As drama and spectacle, it’s not quite first-rate — I rarely feared for these characters or believed that I knew their souls, and George…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2017

As drama and spectacle, it’s not quite first-rate — I rarely feared for these characters or believed that I knew their souls, and George…

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Review of LA 92 (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2017

LA 92 is about what this all looked like on TV, a sort of Los Angeles Burns Itself…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2017

As drama and spectacle, it’s not quite first-rate — I rarely feared for these characters or believed that I knew their souls, and George…

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Review of Killing for Love (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2017

The movie's an epic, but the characters are human-scaled; their desperate actions are refreshingly un-aestheticized…

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Review of The Promise (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2017

As drama and spectacle, it’s not quite first-rate — I rarely feared for these characters or believed that I knew their souls, and George…

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Review of Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Apr 2017

Gere jabbers amusingly, and there's something touching in his Norman's persistence…

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Review of Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Apr 2017

The talking heads (lower case) are fine, but the dream-drama music-video theater piece of Rock on a gurney while nurses and doctors consult…

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Review of A Kind of Loving (1962)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Apr 2017

Neither Vic nor Ingrid is an especially compelling presence, but the actors make the sad moments pierce and the bursts of jubilation explode…

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Review of The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Mar 2017

Few horror debuts unnerve and fascinate as much as this one…

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Review of Bokeh (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Mar 2017

Toward the end, the filmmakers relent on all the grieving sightseeing and offers up a couple plot developments, plus colloquies on matters…

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Review of The Belko Experiment (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2017

Don't expect style or invention, much less satire…

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