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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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<i>The Insult</i> a Reminder That Sometimes It’s Good to Be Totally on the Nose

The Insult a Reminder That Sometimes It’s Good to Be Totally on the Nose

By Alan ScherstuhlJanuary 10, 2018

The Insult is a little pushy, sometimes even tough to swallow, but no more than actual geopolitics

Suspenseful <i>Django</i> Imagines the King of Gypsy Jazz at War

Suspenseful Django Imagines the King of Gypsy Jazz at War

By Alan ScherstuhlJanuary 8, 2018

Like Reinhardt playing that party in Thonon-les-Bains, on the border between France and Switzerland, Django director Etienne Comar refuses the limitations imposed on him

Powell and Pressburger’s Cosmic Pageant <i>A Matter of Life and Death</i> Remains a Heartening Celebration of American Diversity

Powell and Pressburger’s Cosmic Pageant A Matter of Life and Death Remains a Heartening Celebration of American Diversity

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 27, 2017

… Powell and Pressburger are after something richer than the laughs of Here Comes Mr. Jordan and more expansively philosophical than It’s a Wonderful Life

<i>Jumanji</i> Returns With Weak Jungle Action and Not-Bad Dick Jokes

Jumanji Returns With Weak Jungle Action and Not-Bad Dick Jokes

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 21, 2017

The new one is bigger and dumber than the previous, a feat considering the relentless clatter of the 1995 iteration …

The Most Interesting Thing in <i>Pitch Perfect 3</i> Is Anna Kendrick’s Boredom

The Most Interesting Thing in Pitch Perfect 3 Is Anna Kendrick’s Boredom

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 20, 2017

The Pitch Perfect films have offered an increasingly unpalatable blend of pop-song empowerment, rah-rah women’s friendship and broad gross-out comedy

<i>Downsizing</i> Has the Vision to Shrink Matt Damon, but Not to Dare a New POV

Downsizing Has the Vision to Shrink Matt Damon, but Not to Dare a New POV

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 19, 2017

Any thinking person watching Downsizing is 10 steps ahead of Damon’s blinkered schlub, and watching him piece together the bare facts about how this future America works — and how our America works today — makes for a frustrating sit

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Errol Morris’s <i>Wormwood</i> Descends Into Time-Killing Conspiracy Fan Fiction

Errol Morris’s Wormwood Descends Into Time-Killing Conspiracy Fan Fiction

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 18, 2017

Morris’ film dramatizes Olson’s last days between interviews with Olson’s son Eric and journalists and lawyers who have taken the case as a cause

The Twelve Best Films of 2017

The Twelve Best Films of 2017

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 13, 2017

First, these are my favorite movies of the year, not a claim to rank the definitive best, so don’t write to tell me that your favorite should have made it

<i>Darkest Hour</i> Finds Gary Oldman in Full Roar as Britain’s Last Lion

Darkest Hour Finds Gary Oldman in Full Roar as Britain’s Last Lion

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 12, 2017

Wright’s film is fleet but not especially thoughtful, wholly convincing in its production design, and in one crucial sense something rare: Here’s a war movie about rhetoric rather than battle scenes

<i>Wonder Wheel</i>’s Nostalgic Glow Can’t Hide Its Creator’s Score-Settling

Wonder Wheel’s Nostalgic Glow Can’t Hide Its Creator’s Score-Settling

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 7, 2017

As Ginny and her life unravel, Allen’s sympathy for her seems to dry up, and she becomes something like the villain of the piece

<i>Felicite</i> Is Both a Rousing African Musical and a Scarifying Portrait of One Woman’s Indomitability

Felicite Is Both a Rousing African Musical and a Scarifying Portrait of One Woman’s Indomitability

By Alan ScherstuhlDecember 6, 2017

Vero Tshanda Beya, the Congolese singer turned actress making her screen debut in Alain Gomis’s tough-minded life-in-Kinshasa character study Felicite, can pierce your heart with her croon, rouse your soul with her shout, move you with her mien of cussed indomitability, cut you with her look of wary, weary appraisal…

In Netflix’s <i>Voyeur</i>, Gay Talese Learns That Maybe You Shouldn’t Trust a Peeping Tom

In Netflix’s Voyeur, Gay Talese Learns That Maybe You Shouldn’t Trust a Peeping Tom

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 27, 2017

An article, a book and now a film, Talese’s fascination with Foos’ voyeurism still hasn’t resulted in anything like rigorous journalism

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<i>Roman J. Israel, Esq.</i> Worries About the Right Things but Never Makes Them Thrilling

Roman J. Israel, Esq. Worries About the Right Things but Never Makes Them Thrilling

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 23, 2017

The drama is mostly interior, and Washington’s quiet performance tends to reveal the jittery surface rather than the tortured soul

Netflix’s <i>Cuba and the Cameraman</i> Charts 45 Years of Life Under Fidel Castro

Netflix’s Cuba and the Cameraman Charts 45 Years of Life Under Fidel Castro

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 23, 2017

Alpert checks in again and again with the same three families over 45 years of visits to the island, with sometimes heartbreaking results

A Rough Boy Learns Tenderness in the Potent Shepherds’ Romance <i>God’s Own Country</i>

A Rough Boy Learns Tenderness in the Potent Shepherds’ Romance God’s Own Country

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 23, 2017

Francis Lee’s stark, striking God’s Own Country is one of several significant films this year to depict hard-edged men softening, opening up, finding the courage to admit that everything they need to get through this life isn’t already inside them. The protagonist, raw-eyed farm boy Johnny (Josh O’Connor), has inherited…

No, <i>You’re</i> the One Bawling at Pixar’s Death-Carnival Wonder <i>Coco</i>

No, You’re the One Bawling at Pixar’s Death-Carnival Wonder Coco

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 22, 2017

Here’s a kiddo’s quest to define a self, in this case the descent of young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) into a land of the dead inspired by Dia de los Muertos celebrations

<i>The Man Who Invented Christmas</i> Is Plummy Fun but Could Use the Real Dickens’ Outrage

The Man Who Invented Christmas Is Plummy Fun but Could Use the Real Dickens’ Outrage

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 22, 2017

Nalluri’s emphasis is on amateur theatrical performances, magic-lantern projections and comically competitive authors.

Best Marvel Comic of Early ’00s Is Now an Agonizingly Slow Hulu Series

Best Marvel Comic of Early ’00s Is Now an Agonizingly Slow Hulu Series

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 16, 2017

This is the first time a Marvel TV show has stunned me: Why in the era of binge-able continued-narrative TV series would the producers kill dead their momentum

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Ai Weiwei’s Refugee Doc <i>Human Flow</i> Is the Rare Movie That Deserves to Be Called “Stunning”

Ai Weiwei’s Refugee Doc Human Flow Is the Rare Movie That Deserves to Be Called “Stunning”

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 14, 2017

You’re right not to trust a film critic who calls a move stunning. But let me say this about Human Flow, the epic new documentary surveying the scope of the global refugee crisis, from Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei: It stunned me, in the truest sense of the word. Again and…

Like Sex, the Musical <i>Hello Again</i> Is Best Live and in Person

Like Sex, the Musical Hello Again Is Best Live and in Person

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 8, 2017

Hello Again tasks its cast with impassioned miming of a panoply of sex acts, the singers conjugating each other like verbs in foreign language class

Netflix’s Magnificent <i>Alias Grace</i>: Not Just of the Moment, but Urgently of All Time

Netflix’s Magnificent Alias Grace: Not Just of the Moment, but Urgently of All Time

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 8, 2017

Over six episodes crafted with the rich complexity of the novel, “celebrated murderess” Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), tells her own story, Scheherazade-style, to a doctor (Edward Holcroft) with the power to arrange for her pardon

Year’s Scariest Film Is <i>11/8/16</i>, the Doc Tracking Americans’ Experience of Election Night

Year’s Scariest Film Is 11/8/16, the Doc Tracking Americans’ Experience of Election Night

By Alan ScherstuhlNovember 6, 2017

Yes, it’s hard to imagine wanting to watch 11/8/16 today. The film, a sweeping survey documentary created and produced by Jeff Deutchman, follows 16 Americans from across the country on election day of 2016: a Sikh New York cabdriver, a “Dreamer” in San Jose, a Massachusetts dad in a MAGA…

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