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Alan Scherstuhl

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Alan Scherstuhl is film editor at the Village Voice. He also covers books, music, and other matters for the Voice, in addition to writing Studies in Crap, his ongoing humor column about bizarre books and ephemera found at junkshops. He is on Twitter at @studiesincrap.

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Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) 100% “The movie is an immersion as much as it is a narrative.” – Village Voice Sep 27, 2024 Full Review The Girl Is in Trouble (2012) 61% “Columbus Short proves a sturdy, appealing lead in a fractured, low-key suspense thriller distinguished by novelistic detail about its New Yorkers and its New York.” – Village Voice May 21, 2024 Full Review On the Basis of Sex (2018) 72% “Leder's film never lets us forget that it's a feel-good Hollywood fantasy "inspired" by real life, but there's a heart thumping beneath the gloss, with some fire in its blood - and some hurt, too.” – Denver Westword Dec 25, 2018 Full Review Welcome to Marwen (2018) 33% “At its worst, Zemeckis' Marwen isn't an exploration of the limits of the imaginations of Zemeckis' generation of moviemakers - it's an example of it.” – Miami New Times Dec 25, 2018 Full Review Aquaman (2018) 66% “[Aquaman[ has seven seas' worth of the simpler kind of wonder, the razzle-dazzle imaginative kind.” – Miami New Times Dec 17, 2018 Full Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018) 79% “Newsie dancing and performing bicycle tricks. Those spoonfuls of sugar help the plotty, predictable lows go down.” – Miami New Times Dec 17, 2018 Full Review Ben Is Back (2018) 81% “Ben Is Back's pained heart is a flinty, confident Julia Roberts character realizing at last that there are some problems she can't conquer.” – Denver Westword Dec 17, 2018 Full Review Mortal Engines (2018) 25% “This adaptation lurches too abruptly from set piece to set piece to make the basics clear, and between the occasional bursts of wonder, I found the film too dark and uninviting to command my full attention.” – Miami New Times Dec 12, 2018 Full Review Mary Queen of Scots (2018) 62% “It's a film of two faces, one exposed and glowing, the other blotted out entirely, its vulnerability painted over.” – Denver Westword Dec 11, 2018 Full Review Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 97% “Its funky pulse, vibrant cartooning and neon-graffiti aesthetic make the other movies about Marvel superheroes look staid and safe by comparison.” – Miami New Times Dec 10, 2018 Full Review Schindler's List (1993) 98% “Schindler's List is monumental because it demands that we imagine the abominable, but it's great because of its creator's conviction that to ignore injustice is to sanction it.” – Miami New Times Dec 4, 2018 Full Review Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) 52% “I found Mowgli magnificent, the best kiddo adventure movie I've seen this year, a spirited pulp extravaganza of surprising thematic weight.” – Miami New Times Dec 3, 2018 Full Review Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 91% “Happy as Lazzaro offers no explanations for its disruptions of time and space, for its jolting inconsistencies, for its baldly symbolic surprises or even for its characters' continued hopefulness.” – Denver Westword Dec 2, 2018 Full Review The Mercy (2018) 73% “Here's a man-vs.-nature sailing story with a significant difference. Rather than a rousing testament to the human spirit, James Marsh's The Mercy examines a failure to triumph, the kind of tragedy that rarely gets blown up into a movie.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 28, 2018 Full Review United Skates (2018) 100% “Round and round it flows - why not jump on in?” – L.A. Weekly Nov 28, 2018 Full Review Creed II (2018) 83% “Creed II does have a pulse, even if you know almost everything that's going to happen a couple of breaths before it does.” – Miami New Times Nov 19, 2018 Full Review At Eternity's Gate (2018) 79% “At Eternity's Gate is committed to what its subject saw - how its subject saw - rather than just how commandingly its star reels through his big speeches.” – Denver Westword Nov 19, 2018 Full Review A Private War (2018) 87% “Hard-edged and harrowed, Rosamund Pike is magnificent in A Private War.” – Denver Westword Nov 15, 2018 Full Review Anchor and Hope (2017) 79% “Too often, viewers just have to take a movie love story's word for it that its characters actually belong together. Not so in Carlos Marques-Marcet's loose, observant Anchor and Hope.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Chef Flynn (2018) 70% “What sets this lively, engaging doc apart is that we see Flynn become a culinary star through the eyes of his mother.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Under the Wire (2018) 85% “The film unfolds as a sort of first-person procedural, a vivid step-by-step account of a reporting trip to hell.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018) 91% “Little here will surprise cineastes but much of it will charm them.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 9, 2018 Full Review River Runs Red (2018) 22% “The acting is stiff, the pacing sluggish, the framing uncertain, the music an intrusive mush and the scenario schematic.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 8, 2018 Full Review Outlaw King (2018) 63% “Mel Gibson's film isn't just this movie's unofficial prequel: It's the larger animal upon which this one is a parasite.” – Denver Westword Nov 8, 2018 Full Review The Angel (2018) 73% “Ortega and Ferro portray this gorgeous sociopath as utterly disaffected, a young man turned on mostly by desires he can't quite articulate, even to other criminals.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 8, 2018 Full Review
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