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Review of Summer of 84 (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2018

If you’re patient, though, and not put off by the familiarity of this material, Summer of ’84 gains in interest and urgency as it goes…

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Review of Milla (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Aug 2018

We observe moments of living rather than the beats of a story, all that natural lighting and everyday quiet stirring the sense of lives taking…

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Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jul 2018

What’s lost in comedy is not matched by a gain in emotional engagement…

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Review of Gavagai (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Jul 2018

Gavagai offers moments of sublimity unlike anything you'll see in most contemporary movies. It also tests the patience…

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Review of Puzzle (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jul 2018

Since it’s hard to buy the character, it’s hard to buy the story, no matter how good Macdonald is…

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Review of Puzzle (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Jul 2018

Since it’s hard to buy the character, it’s hard to buy the story, no matter how good Macdonald is…

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Review of The Equalizer 2 (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jul 2018

It’s hard to appreciate the hero’s crafty planning when we can’t really make out what he’s crafted…

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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jul 2018

It’s wild and singular, often beautiful, a feast and feat of self-definition through verbal dexterity…

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Review of Generation Wealth (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2018

By turns, Greenfield’s survey is alarming, hilarious, and indulgent, sometimes strained and a little dull, prone to overstatement and an…

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Review of Skyscraper (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2018

I almost admire the laziness of the scripting…

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Review of Woman Walks Ahead (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jun 2018

The good intentions it carries out to the plains don’t make up for the tentative falseness at its center, a hero who could herself benefit…

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Review of Mrs. Hyde (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Jun 2018

The movie comes to life, at times, especially in its detours…

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Review of The King (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jun 2018

I'd probably love this film's wandering spirit and Elvis-is-everywhere philosophizing if it were half as fast or twice as long, if it pinned…

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Review of The King (2021)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jun 2018

I'd probably love this film's wandering spirit and Elvis-is-everywhere philosophizing if it were half as fast or twice as long, if it pinned…

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Review of The King (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jun 2018

Honestly, I’d probably love this film’s wandering spirit and Elvis-is-everywhere philosophizing if it were half as fast or twice as long,…

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Review of The Year of Spectacular Men (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Jun 2018

Lea Thompson’s first film as a director — a brisk, breezy, sharp-elbowed, sexually frank, occasionally shout-y, often hilarious comedy…

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Review of Eating Animals (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Jun 2018

As a work of sustained, thoughtful inquiry, Eating Animals is a bust; as a reminder of what we should all be thinking about, though, it’s…

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Review of Bernard and Huey (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Jun 2018

As you might hope for a film with a script from the great Jules Feiffer, Dan Mirvish’s Bernard and Huey bristles with anxious, circuitous,…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2018

Simply put, the clockwork heist that Ocean’s 8 promises (and, by its end, dazzles with) limits the film’s ability to offer what you might…

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Review of Upgrade (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 May 2018

Upgrade offers memorable, legible fights, a compelling bombed-out retro-apocalyptic look and a mystery that seems obvious at the start but…

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