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Alan Scherstuhl

Alan Scherstuhl is film editor and writer at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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Rosamund Pike Dazzles, but <i>A Private War</i> Puts a Reporter Before Her Reporting

Rosamund Pike Dazzles, but A Private War Puts a Reporter Before Her Reporting

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 14, 2018

Pike’s Colvin is haunted by visions of carnage she has seen, sometimes imagining that her London home is a bombed-out shell of itself, that a little girl she once saw die is lying in her own bed

In 1969, Stan Lee Told Angry Readers That Comics Must Stand Up for Civil Rights

In 1969, Stan Lee Told Angry Readers That Comics Must Stand Up for Civil Rights

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 12, 2018

From Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and John Romita and many more came the great flowering of ‘60s superheroes, the ones who seemed like human beings in ways that Superman or Batman didn’t

Netflix’s <i>Outlaw King</i> Is Just Beardo vs. Beardo in Scotland’s Mud Pits

Netflix’s Outlaw King Is Just Beardo vs. Beardo in Scotland’s Mud Pits

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 8, 2018

One lord scowls with even more surliness than the rest: Chris Pine is Robert the Bruce, a Scot who will, eventually, declare himself king of his country and wage guerrilla war against Edward

Peter Bogdanovich’s <i>The Great Buster</i> Sits Back and Gapes at a Legend

Peter Bogdanovich’s The Great Buster Sits Back and Gapes at a Legend

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 6, 2018

… The Great Buster at heart is an opportunity to hang with Bogdanovich as he screens favorite sequences from ol’ stone face’s 1920s two- and five-reel masterpieces

<i>Boy Erased</i> Exposes the Cruel Stupidity of “Gay Conversion Therapy”

Boy Erased Exposes the Cruel Stupidity of “Gay Conversion Therapy”

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 5, 2018

It documents with an incisive drabness the group sessions, garbled sermons and general shoddiness of Love in Action, the program that 19-year-old Jared (Lucas Hedges) gets enrolled in by his parents, played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe

The Corny Wiki-Like Biopic <i>Bohemian Rhapsody</i> Can’t Dim Freddie Mercury’s Star

The Corny Wiki-Like Biopic Bohemian Rhapsody Can’t Dim Freddie Mercury’s Star

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 30, 2018

It’s one of those biopics where everything significant that happened to a famous person happens all at once, in the couple of seconds of any given year that we see dramatized

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The Flashy <i>Studio 54</i> Keeps Too Much That Matters Behind the Velvet Rope

The Flashy Studio 54 Keeps Too Much That Matters Behind the Velvet Rope

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 30, 2018

Footage of Studio life — the lavish lights, the Broadway-style props and performance numbers, the heaving mass of beautiful people — plays here mostly in chaotic montage, with few shots related to the one coming next

The Teen Witch Meets Satan in Netflix’s Bloody Good <i>Chilling Adventures of Sabrina</i>

The Teen Witch Meets Satan in Netflix’s Bloody Good Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 23, 2018

… This new Sabrina dives headlong into the dark, weird truths that smart kids — and alarmed evangelicals — always assumed ruled the life of America’s favorite teenage witch, her sorcerous aunts and her black-cat familiar

Netflix’s <i>The Dragon Prince</i> Is a Fantasy Knockout, but Its <i>Disenchantment</i> Is a Slog

Netflix’s The Dragon Prince Is a Fantasy Knockout, but Its Disenchantment Is a Slog

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 16, 2018

Netflix has recently offered two modest stabs at this stabbing-est of genres, a pair of animated series, one of which bristles with promise

Thanksgiving-Ruining Comedy <i>The Oath</i> Makes America Funny Again

Thanksgiving-Ruining Comedy The Oath Makes America Funny Again

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 15, 2018

That 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

Maggie Gyllenhaal Tests Viewers’ Capacity for Cringing in <i>The Kindergarten Teacher</i>

Maggie Gyllenhaal Tests Viewers’ Capacity for Cringing in The Kindergarten Teacher

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 10, 2018

The 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 verses of his own invention

Clever but Empty, <i>Bad Times</i> Throws Back to the Tarantinoid ’90s

Clever but Empty, Bad Times Throws Back to the Tarantinoid ’90s

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 9, 2018

Bad Times is a much better time in its mysterious middle, which tingles with darkly comic possibility, than in its final 40 minutes, when Goddard’s cards are on the table

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<i>The Hate U Give</i> Gives Powerful Voice to a Young Woman’s Outrage

The Hate U Give Gives Powerful Voice to a Young Woman’s Outrage

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 8, 2018

The Hate U Give takes time to focus on the nuances of Starr’s life, on the ways Williamson has split her consciousness, on the effort of code-switching, on the layers of self that Starr must sort through in everyday interactions

Robert Redford Twinkles as <i>The Old Man & the Gun</i>’s Career Crook

Robert Redford Twinkles as The Old Man & the Gun’s Career Crook

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 8, 2018

Each 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

<i>Loving Pablo</i> Offers a Giddily Ridiculous Look at Pablo Escobar’s Rise and Fall

Loving Pablo Offers a Giddily Ridiculous Look at Pablo Escobar’s Rise and Fall

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 4, 2018

Double-stuffed with kill squads, killer ’80s couture, and mood-killing howlers, Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s Loving Pablo is more a greatest hits than a story, the kind of radically compressed life-of-a-legend movie where everything happens in a giddy, ridiculous gush

Tamara Jenkins’s <i>Private Life</i> Is the Best Reason This Year to Keep Your Netflix

Tamara Jenkins’s Private Life Is the Best Reason This Year to Keep Your Netflix

By Alan ScherstuhlOctober 3, 2018

Its leads, feminist writer Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti), a one-time wunderkind of no-budget theatrical productions, find themselves desperate to conceive a child even as the doctors they pay (with borrowed money) thousands to speak frankly of the odds

The Irrepressible <i>Science Fair</i> Charms and Pleases — but What About the Science?

The Irrepressible Science Fair Charms and Pleases — but What About the Science?

By Alan ScherstuhlSeptember 26, 2018

The cameras aren’t even there when the kids officially present their projects, but the filmmakers still wring the big day for all the drama they can, putting off as long as possible the revelation of whether any of their subjects win

Rock-Climbing Doc <i>Free Solo</i> Thrills and Terrifies

Rock-Climbing Doc Free Solo Thrills and Terrifies

By Alan ScherstuhlSeptember 26, 2018

The filmmakers capture Honnold’s 2016 and 2017 attempts to complete the first “free solo” climb of these granite cliffs, and the suspense is thrilling, agonizing, perhaps indecent

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<i>Pick of the Litter</i> Is a Good Dog Doc, Yes It Is, Yes It Is

Pick of the Litter Is a Good Dog Doc, Yes It Is, Yes It Is

By Alan ScherstuhlSeptember 25, 2018

The pups, named Primrose and Poppet and Phil and Potomac and Patriot, get dispatched from the organization Guide Dogs for the Blind to the homes of families dedicated to raising them for the first half of their training

Keira Knightley’s <i>Colette</i> Storms Paris and All the Rules of Sexuality

Keira Knightley’s Colette Storms Paris and All the Rules of Sexuality

By Alan ScherstuhlSeptember 24, 2018

As her marriage opens up, and Colette begins to take lovers of her own, Knightley summons up a moving sense of both relief and recklessness

<i>Love, Gilda</i> Lets Gilda Radner Speak for Herself

Love, Gilda Lets Gilda Radner Speak for Herself

By Alan ScherstuhlSeptember 19, 2018

Radner narrates, in a way, through her own audio diaries, plus some snippets of interviews and judicious excerpts from the audiobook of her perfectly titled — and just-barely posthumous — memoir, It’s Always Something

<i>The House With a Clock in Its Walls</i> Is Just the Right Kind of Scary

The House With a Clock in Its Walls Is Just the Right Kind of Scary

By Alan ScherstuhlSeptember 18, 2018

Roth’s film is a funhouse throwback, a scare-the-kids goof with a top-shelf cast, an antique shop’s worth of creepy windup dolls and more heart than you might expect — and, like those jack-o’-lanterns, it’s got more teeth, too

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