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Review of We the Party (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Apr 2012

The movie spends almost as much time allowing the filmmaker, playing a progressive-minded teacher, to push his students to be better citizens…

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Review of God Save My Shoes (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Mar 2012

There's no escaping the fact that Benasra's documentary does little more than perpetuate the myth of women - all women - as vapid materialists…

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Review of The Beat Hotel (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 26 Mar 2012

The fact that it's far more concerned with burnishing an overly fetishized lit movement than serving as an in-depth exploration of the hotel's…

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Review of The Island President (2012)

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

The film successfully positions its point of view with the developing countries that suffer the most immediate consequences of global warming…

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Review of Brake (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 2012

Until its pair of ludicrous twist endings, which complicates its message and logistics in ways that make little sense, Gabe Torres's Brake…

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Review of Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2012

For the most part, this is a boys-will-be-boys movie that excuses everything its pair of protags do in the name of some sort of cosmic order…

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Review of Project X (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Mar 2012

Awesomeness seems to be the chief quality prized by both the film and its characters; all other considerations--like safety, property damage,…

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Review of Project X (1987)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Mar 2012

Awesomeness seems to be the chief quality prized by both the film and its characters; all other considerations--like safety, property damage,…

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Review of Act of Valor (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Feb 2012

A movie whose cinematic ineptitude is matched only by its ideological rottenness, Act of Valor features a cast of real-life active-duty Navy…

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Review of Bombay Beach (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Feb 2012

Rather than bringing out the symbolic inner lives of the characters, these sequences seem like the intrusion of an aggressive authorial personality…

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Review of Michael (2011)

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

Markus Schleinzer turns the film's victim into little more than a kicking, screaming cipher whose sufferings, while not exploited, are nonetheless…

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Review of Michael (2011)

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

A (relatively) tasteful and restrained approach to potentially lurid subject matter isn't necessarily any better than one that gives in freely…

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Review of Buried Prayers (2011)

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

Documentary's insistent inflation of buried gold jewelry and watches into symbols of heroic defiance and transcendental tragedy rings hollow…

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Review of Laredoans Speak: Voices on Immigration (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2012

The movie's argument only occasionally transcends its oozy nonspecificity and feel-good bleeding-heart vibe…

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Review of Windfall (2012)

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

Given the film's inability to posit any significant objections - or, for that matter, alternatives - to the turbines, it all feels like so…

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Review of Chronicle (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Feb 2012

Offers up little more than a tired morality play about the dangers of power, rehashing stale insights about the narcissism of the documentary impulse…

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Review of Splinters (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 31 Jan 2012

While marred somewhat by the griminess of its HD imagery, Splinters nonetheless successfully integrates the sport and an attendant subculture…

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Review of Eulogy for a Vampire (2009)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Jan 2012

This is one gay vampire film that's surprisingly anemic…

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Review of Crazy Horse (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jan 2012

Crazy Horse is the story of the interplay of commerce and art, the possibility of the latter always reliant on the support of the former…

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Review of Albatross (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jan 2012

Albatross is simply a compendium of bad ideas…

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