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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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Sign Up With the Second-Wave Lesbian Revolutionaries of Bruce LaBruce’s <i>The Misandrists</i>

Sign Up With the Second-Wave Lesbian Revolutionaries of Bruce LaBruce’s The Misandrists

By Alan ScherstuhlJuly 23, 2018

Like 2004’s The Raspberry Reich, a satire of what LaBruce has called “terrorist chic,” The Misandrists soaks audiences in the doings (and I do mean doings) of a radical cell of sexual dissenters

<i>The Equalizer 2</i>: Denzel Thinks Globally, Kills Locally

The Equalizer 2: Denzel Thinks Globally, Kills Locally

By Alan ScherstuhlJuly 19, 2018

All that lashing wind and rain, and Fuqua’s sometimes haphazard storytelling, deny us the grim pleasures of Denzel’s methodical slayings, which often take clever advantage of whatever tools happen to be handy

Eugene Jarecki’s <i>The King</i> Loads Elvis and America Into a Wood Chipper Aimed at Your Face

Eugene Jarecki’s The King Loads Elvis and America Into a Wood Chipper Aimed at Your Face

By Alan ScherstuhlJuly 16, 2018

… It’s as scattered and disorienting as the infamous LP Having Fun With Elvis On Stage, an official cheapie that consisted of nothing but the King’s between-songs ‘70s stage banter

<i>Skyscraper</i> Sure Has a Lot of Mass Shootings for a Family-Time Adventure Movie

Skyscraper Sure Has a Lot of Mass Shootings for a Family-Time Adventure Movie

By Alan ScherstuhlJuly 11, 2018

Skyscraper is a family-bonding adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell and two elementary-aged children who are as good at appearing darling (in the early scenes) as they are at playacting the role of traumatized hostages (in the later scenes)

Rob Reiner’s <i>Shock and Awe</i> Takes on Bush’s War and the <i>New York Times</i> — and Wins

Rob Reiner’s Shock and Awe Takes on Bush’s War and the New York Times — and Wins

By Alan ScherstuhlJuly 10, 2018

Shock and Awe is a 90-minute liberal told-you-so, a polemic that, like a long Rachel Maddow segment, is more cheery than thunderous, even as it names the names that must be named

<i>Eating Animals</i> Demands We Face the Truth About Factory Farming

Eating Animals Demands We Face the Truth About Factory Farming

By Alan ScherstuhlJuly 2, 2018

… Eating Animals proves persuasive mostly in its diagnosis of what has gone wrong, and in its account of how it went wrong on such a massive scale (through thumbnail histories of KFC, Tyson, and Chicken McNuggets)

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<i>Mary Shelley</i> Desperately Needs the Spark of Life

Mary Shelley Desperately Needs the Spark of Life

By Alan ScherstuhlJune 25, 2018

… Much like a paper by a student who has read the wiki but not the work, Mary Shelley marshals its evidence without revealing more, without connecting to the soul of the matter.

It’s the Sisters Who Are Spectacular in Lea Thompson’s <i>The Year of Spectacular Men</i>

It’s the Sisters Who Are Spectacular in Lea Thompson’s The Year of Spectacular Men

By Alan ScherstuhlJune 19, 2018

Thompson and screenwriter Deutch center their young women’s choices, desires, mistakes, disappointments and work in a welcome parody of Hollywood’s treatment of young women

“Who Gets to Be a <i>Girl</i> Is Contested”: Alice Bolin Talks <i>Dead Girls</i> and Women’s Pain

“Who Gets to Be a Girl Is Contested”: Alice Bolin Talks Dead Girls and Women’s Pain

By Alan ScherstuhlJune 18, 2018

Like the shows she’s considering, Bolin soon expands out from comely corpses to survey a wider world, in this case many of her pop obsessions …

Lea Thompson on Directing (and Learning From) Her Daughters, Madelyn and Zoey Deutch

Lea Thompson on Directing (and Learning From) Her Daughters, Madelyn and Zoey Deutch

By Alan ScherstuhlJune 15, 2018

Her daughter Madelyn wrote and scored the film; Madelyn stars in it alongside Zoey, and Thompson appears with her daughters in the featured role of — you guessed it — their mother

<i>Ocean’s 8</i> Barely Bests a Tricky Problem: How to be Familiar <i>and</i> Surprising

Ocean’s 8 Barely Bests a Tricky Problem: How to be Familiar and Surprising

By Alan ScherstuhlJune 7, 2018

Simply put, the clockwork heist that Ocean’s 8 promises (and, by its end, dazzles with) limits the film’s ability to offer what you might actually want from it: the chance to relish this cast

In the Infuriating <i>American Animals</i>, Dumb Criminals’ Remorse Is Their Reward

In the Infuriating American Animals, Dumb Criminals’ Remorse Is Their Reward

By Alan ScherstuhlJune 4, 2018

For all its jittery heist drama, American Animals is, above all else, an accidental study in just how much white kids can get away with and still be welcomed back into society

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<i>Upgrade</i> Builds a Better Hyper-Violent Retro-Future Thriller

Upgrade Builds a Better Hyper-Violent Retro-Future Thriller

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 31, 2018

Teeming with abandoned buildings full of thugs to be dispatched, ruled over by shadow corporations and wicked artificial intelligence, Whannell’s film plays like the smarter-than-you’d-think 2018 version of some 1988 kill-’em-all VHS cheapie

Paul Schrader’s <i>First Reformed</i> Dares to Stare Right Into the Void

Paul Schrader’s First Reformed Dares to Stare Right Into the Void

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 30, 2018

The morality-tale obviousness of First Reformed’s plotting at times proves at odds with its sensitive detailing of its characters’ inner and spiritual lives

An Aggressive, Restless Film Adaptation Can’t Quite Kill Chekhov’s <i>Seagull</i>

An Aggressive, Restless Film Adaptation Can’t Quite Kill Chekhov’s Seagull

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 29, 2018

Michael Mayer’s sunnily bleak all-star film, I fear, squirms through the first acts of Chekhov’s masterpiece the way a cast member’s 8-year-old cousin might in a theater seat

The Symphonic Doc <i>Mountain</i> Inspires Nothing Short of Awe

The Symphonic Doc Mountain Inspires Nothing Short of Awe

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 29, 2018

Its heights might on occasion yank your stomach to the theater floor, but much of Mountain is a bit of a bliss-out, a chance to contemplate the planet’s most remote and dangerous places and our relationship to them

<i>Solo</i> Doesn’t Quite Got It Where It Counts, Kid

Solo Doesn’t Quite Got It Where It Counts, Kid

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 21, 2018

Like Rogue One, the other standalone Disney Star Wars film that suffered a famously troubled production, Solo has a just-finish-the-movie quality to it, an uncertainty about the pacing and seriousness of developments in its own story

In Arthouse Horror Film <i>Beast</i>, the Real Monster Is Youthful Misery

In Arthouse Horror Film Beast, the Real Monster Is Youthful Misery

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 21, 2018

This is what it’s like to be 27 and kind of a mess and totally sleepy and kind of miserable and suffering a headache and not sure who you are or who you should trust

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<i>Deadpool</i> Will Laugh at Anything Except the Sanctity of Superhero Movies

Deadpool Will Laugh at Anything Except the Sanctity of Superhero Movies

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 15, 2018

Here’s what you need to know: This is less Deadpool 2 than Deadpool Squared, a studio and its star (Reynolds is credited as co-writer) committing to hyper-violent self-referential comic-book buffoonery

Coralie Fargeat’s Ferocious <i>Revenge</i> Is a Pulp-Thriller Knockout

Coralie Fargeat’s Ferocious Revenge Is a Pulp-Thriller Knockout

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 8, 2018

In the most pivotal, unforgettable scene, Jen holes up in a cave to engage in a ritual you know from almost every movie ever made about violent heroism: She has to patch herself up

Desplechin’s <i>Ismael’s Ghosts</i> Keeps Adding More, More, More

Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts Keeps Adding More, More, More

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 8, 2018

If the original cut was a couple of Desplechin distinct movies loaded into a woodchipper and then splatted all out on the screen, this new, longer Ismael’s Ghosts at least can be said to beef up the splats

Yes, <i>Infinity War</i> Goes On Forever, but Thanos Makes It Worth the Time

Yes, Infinity War Goes On Forever, but Thanos Makes It Worth the Time

By Alan ScherstuhlMay 2, 2018

This epic, the first of two final Avengers films, finds the Class of ‘12 — the core Avengers — getting together for one last rager, joined by select newbies and spazzes from the ranks of sophomores and freshmen

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