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Review of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Jan 2013

It's fitting that this film of people making do with what they have should itself look somewhat humble, without lyricism, a work not of beauty…

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Review of Stolen Seas (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jan 2013

The protracted 2008 ship-napping of the CEC Future...is couched in illuminating context…

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Review of Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Dec 2012

The ravishing and kitschy Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away is the rare movie whose title serves as an accurate indicator of whether you will enjoy…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Dec 2012

Much like marriage, This Is 40 is somewhat formless, and it almost never hurries up. But life is improved by having the option…

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Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Dec 2012

That makes this the most rare of films: one that indisputably matters. And one that stuns…

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Review of Stand Up Guys (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Dec 2012

But by the end, the feeling the movie inspires isn't suspense but relief: Thank God that the producers behind Grumpy Old Men and The Sunshine…

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Review of Tchoupitoulas (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Dec 2012

Bill and Turner Ross - the directors, producers, camera operators, and troublemakers behind Tchoupitoulas - could do posterity a service if…

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Review of Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Dec 2012

For stretches of the film, he (Murray) is enough to recommend Hyde Park on Hudson, especially as he toys with his houseguests, England's King…

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Review of Wagner & Me (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Dec 2012

Most of the time, though, Fry is an unabashed appreciator…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Lincoln is the work of a different director, one truly fascinated by why his subjects do what they do, one who invests each moment with the…

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Review of The Details (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Nov 2012

Top-shelf cast, headed by Tobey Maguire, slips into familiar grooves of adultery, lies, blackmail, and pet poisoning, it's the spectacular…

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Review of Dinotasia (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Oct 2012

If they're never fully convincing as photo-realistic figures, they're certainly as much good gory fun to watch as any old-school monster kids…

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Review of Bad 25 (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Oct 2012

Spike Lee has given the world the first tribute that fully measures up to Jackson the artist. Come on get your sham on…

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Review of Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Oct 2012

Seriously, if this is the best promotion of itself that the free market can manage, it really would benefit from the help of a Ministry of…

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Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

Remember the shitty crime comedies every Hollywood brat tried to make after Pulp Fiction? It took an Irish playwright to get it right…

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Review of My Father And The Man In Black (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

As Cash might say, it has the heart, and it has the blood, and by the time childhood chatter is played back again, feeling is soaked through…

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Review of Headshot (2011)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

The awesome shit's awesome; the ponderous is ponderous; and the bloody corpses are arranged as artfully as wedding bouquets…

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Review of Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (2011)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Sep 2011

Still, the tapes are great. More than just a flophouse Punch and Judy show, the Raymond vs…

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Review of Scarecrow (1973)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 May 1981

A flawed, fascinating testament to a time of discovery in Hollywood: of how stories could be told onscreen, of what great actors might find…

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