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Review of The Childhood of a Leader (2016)

By Mark Asch (48) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 20 Jul 2016

It's to the film's credit that, for long passages, The Childhood of a Leader feels more mysterious and nuanced than its central allegory…

Review of Breaking a Monster (2015)

By Mark Asch (48) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 23 Jun 2016

A tense glimpse of the limits of precocity and into the retro teen-idol grooming, viral brand-building and cavernous infrastructure of the…

Review of Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2016)

By Mark Asch (48) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 26 May 2016

Interesting and valuable for its sense of Jia at low-key ease in almost incomprehensibly different worlds, among aunties, accountants and artists…

Review of Pervert Park (2014)

By Mark Asch (48) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 19 May 2016

For degree of difficulty-as a social problem, a filmmaking subject, and a test of the viewer's emotional equilibrium-it's hard to beat Pervert Park…

Review of The Wrestler (1971)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 16 May 2016

A quarter-century (and, one senses, a lot longer in Rourke Years) since he pulled the popcorn-bag trick on Carol Heathrow and then talked his…

Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 16 May 2016

A quarter-century (and, one senses, a lot longer in Rourke Years) since he pulled the popcorn-bag trick on Carol Heathrow and then talked his…

Review of (500) Days of Summer (2009)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 16 May 2016

Similar taste in stuff, it seems, is not reason enough to love a movie…

Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 16 May 2016

A quarter-century (and, one senses, a lot longer in Rourke Years) since he pulled the popcorn-bag trick on Carol Heathrow and then talked his…

Review of In the Loop (2009)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 16 May 2016

Some have found In the Loop shallow for detaching its fevered gamesmanship from actual reasoning or consequences -- but isn't it rather chilling,…

Review of Humpday (2009)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 16 May 2016

Humpday works because... its moments of truth and familiarity aren't isolated…

Review of Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

By Mark Asch (48) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 25 Apr 2016

An inspired, delightful piece of cinema-pure cloudcuckooland escapism, and very much of a piece with Prince's genius…

Review of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 12 Dec 2015

[Brief Interviews] is within the limits of the medium, a rigorous record of the process of thought…

Review of Tokyo Sonata (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Sep 2015

The family is just one of the nuclear units on the brink of systemic collapse in Kurosawa's mordant contemporary opus, which…

Review of Get Smart (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Jul 2015

The movie is hurt more than helped by having to carry over character names and shoehorn in the show's greatest hits, Carell and Hathaway's…

Review of The Love Guru (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Jul 2015

The Love Guru just feels lazy, filling time with jokes about Celine Dion, Oprah Winfrey, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Myers and Kanye…

Review of You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Jul 2015

It's perhaps not much of a schtick, but it's a cohesive schtick, with the sub-schticks of the entire cast well integrated in support and counterpoint…

Review of National Gallery (2014)

By Mark Asch (48) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 08 Jan 2015

Wiseman shows us the “how” of art appreciation, from politics to philosophy, in a film vast in scope, and richly suggestive in insight…

Review of Girlfriend Experience (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 30 Sep 2014

Given the film's timestamp and the illusory nature of Chelsea's transacted affections, she may be the Aughties bubble economy incarnate…

Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 30 Sep 2014

Given the film's timestamp and the illusory nature of Chelsea's transacted affections, she may be the Aughties bubble economy incarnate…

Review of Diary of the Dead (2007)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 29 Sep 2014

One needn't be a splatter junkie to miss Romero's marshalling of action across multiple theaters…

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