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Review of Looper (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Thrilling in its deft juggling of complex narrative elements, utterly clear in its presentation, and unfolding with what feels like serious…

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Review of Pitch Perfect (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2012

Jason Moore's film is more or less successful in inverse proportion to the degree that it plays its material by the book…

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Review of The Other Dream Team (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Sep 2012

Draws on archival footage and firsthand accounts from both players and outside observers to reveal the complex interaction of politics and…

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Review of They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 17 Sep 2012

Only Lieberman's intrusive, slightly arrogant onscreen presence distracts from the profile, introducing an unwanted hint of American privilege…

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Review of Hellbound? (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2012

Fitfully engaging, but the documentary turns into a touchy-feely isn't-it-wonderful-we're-all-saved love fest as soon as the universalists…

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Review of To Rome with Love (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 12 Sep 2012

The film's litany of bad ideas overshadows any of its thematic concerns…

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Review of Step Up to the Plate (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 11 Sep 2012

Step Up to the Plate doesn't skimp on the food-porn goods, but the dynamic between its two stoical subjects is too undercooked to truly resonate…

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Review of Snowman's Land (1939)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Sep 2012

The tone here is unhurried and the bursts of violence and narrative played at an aesthetic remove, but the cycles of languor and activity ultimately…

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Review of Liberal Arts (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Sep 2012

Still, in the central relationship, the writer-director shows an understanding of human interaction that marks his second feature as a quantum…

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Review of Snowman's Land (2010)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Sep 2012

The tone here is unhurried and the bursts of violence and narrative played at an aesthetic remove, but the cycles of languor and activity ultimately…

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Review of Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 04 Sep 2012

A breezily entertaining profile of painter, puppeteer and performer Wayne White, Beauty Is Embarrassing places the kindhearted, foulmouthed…

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Review of Serving Up Richard (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Sep 2012

Glory's inconsistent characterization defeats rather than builds tension, and the tepid soon gives way to the ridiculous…

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Review of Hello I Must Be Going (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Sep 2012

With a digital sheen exacerbating the aura of slightness, Hello vamps along in its low indie-rom-com key toward a climactic mother-daughter…

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Review of For a Good Time, Call... (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2012

While the heart of the movie is the at-times strained relationship between the two leads, it all unfolds rather by the numbers, dictated more…

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Review of Premium Rush (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Aug 2012

Proves how invigorating genre filmmaking can be in the hands of a savvy, perpetually inventive director…

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Review of Death By China (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Aug 2012

The bulk of the film contains as much hysterical rhetoric as sober analysis…

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Review of Why Stop Now? (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2012

Shifting between wacky situation comedy and somber familial drama, Why Stop Now…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Aug 2012

It seems as if Craig Zobel wants to implicate the audience in these proceedings, but he doesn't have a very clear idea how to go about it…

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Review of Supercapitalist (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 06 Aug 2012

Mostly, this DOA movie is an excuse to hammer home that there's more to life than making a shit-ton of money. Take that, Wall Street…

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Review of It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

The film doesn't exactly sizzle, but it does manage to provide a straightforward (if perspective-challenged) biographical sketch of a major…

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