Alan Scherstuhl
Alan Scherstuhl is film editor and writer at Voice Media Group and its film partner, the Village Voice. VMG publications include LA Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, Houston Press and Dallas Observer.
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6 days ago | Film ReviewsThat impulse — to continually stoke our fury with Twitter takes, cable news shouters and breaking news updates — gets lanced throughout The Oath, which writer-director-star Barinholtz has set in a now just as fevered as ours
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Here's some welcome news about The Oath, Ike Barinholtz's tense and shouty comedy about a family trying to get through Thanksgiving as their not-quite-ours America boils over in rage. While watching the film, I not only laughed a lot and...
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9 days ago | Film and TVNetflix has recently offered two modest stabs at this stabbing-est of genres, a pair of animated series, one of which bristles with promise
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11 days ago | Film and TVThe teacher in question, played by an excellent Maggie Gyllenhaal, takes an insistent interest in the life and (apparent) art of 5-year-old student Jimmy (Parker Sevak), who occasionally goes into a shuffling trance and mumble-recites evocative ve...
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12 days ago | Film ReviewsAs her marriage opens up, and Colette begins to take lovers of her own, Knightley summons up a moving sense of both relief and recklessness
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12 days ago | Film ReviewsEach beat of this plays out with exquisite delicacy, as does the exchange where the crook lays out, with exacting detail, how he’d rob this diner if it were a bank — and then takes it all back, letting her think he was joking
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