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Review of The Way (2010)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2011

The making of The Way must have been a nice moment for father and son, but why must the rest of us suffer…

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Review of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Sep 2011

Nuri Bilge Ceylan has to be the least kinetic of working filmmakers - and not simply in the sense of static camerawork or lack of narrative momentum…

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Review of Surrogate Valentine (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Sep 2011

The relationship between the two leads neither deteriorates nor seriously improves and last-minute romantic developments don't so much as give…

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Review of The Loneliest Planet (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2011

Much of the film's final act is given to alienated walking, which too often plays as an abstract study of triangular arrangements in which…

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Review of Journey from Zanskar (2010)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Sep 2011

Although the film might be forced to rely rather heavily on Richard Gere's narration simply to situate the Western viewer, the actor does unify…

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Review of A Bird of the Air (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

Naturally, given the film's somewhat precious air of spiritualism, the parroted phrase that speaks most clearly to Lyman is a quotation from…

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Review of There Was Once... (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

A not insignificant act of oral history, Gabor Kalman's There Was Once… makes for considerably less compelling cinema whenever it turns its…

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Review of Jane's Journey (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Sep 2011

Any analysis of her philanthropy or character is traded for blind idol worship; only intermittent footage of the subject interacting with the…

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Review of Prince of Swine (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2011

Played as broadly and as crudely as you please (in terms of acting, direction, edgy dialogue), Prince of Swine paints a grimly ugly portrait…

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Review of Berlin '36 (2009)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

Excepting a momentary late-film lapse into eye-rolling double-exposure tomfoolery, the film is as aesthetically bland as a film could conceivably…

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Review of Inside Out (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Sep 2011

Paul Levesque's over-the-top acting may be ideal for the larger-than-life world of WWE, where he grapples and grunts under the nom de ring…

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Review of Shaolin (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2011

Only Jackie Chan, in a comedic supporting role as a Zen-trained cook who applies his culinary techniques on the battlefield (he stir-fries…

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Review of My Kingdom (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Sep 2011

If this oddly delineated narrative often falls between two stools, then the replacement of brightly bombastic opera battles with dimly lit,…

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Review of Tanner Hall (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2011

Francesca Gregorini and Tatiana von Furstenberg's film is episodic, but the episodes don't achieve any kind of cumulative effect…

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Review of Rebirth (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 30 Aug 2011

Even as the subjects detail the processes of grieving, healing and moving on, Whitaker continually strikes a tone of reverent mawkishness,…

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Review of Rebirth (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 29 Aug 2011

Even as the subjects detail the processes of grieving, healing and moving on, Whitaker continually strikes a tone of reverent mawkishness,…

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Review of Seven Days in Utopia (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 29 Aug 2011

Director Matt Russell shamelessly pitches woo to the already converted with an unholy barrage of heavy-handed flashbacks and phony Christian…

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Review of The Family Tree (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Aug 2011

Surprise! The upper-middle-class family is still rotten to the core…

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Review of Chasing Madoff (2010)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Aug 2011

Too bad Prosserman can't trust his material: Overloading the screen with aesthetic dross, the director offers up tiresome symbolic imagery…

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Review of Our Idiot Brother (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Aug 2011

Shat makes Our Idiot Brother work is the endless appeal of watching Rudd's lovable idiot run roughshod over the sophisticated New York mini-universe…

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