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Alan Scherstuhl

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  • Miami New Times
  • PhoenixNewTimes
  • Houston Press
  • Dallas Observer
  • Westword
  • New Times Broward
  • Village Voice
  • LA Weekly

Past articles by Alan:

‘If an Animal Talks, I’m Sold’: An Interview with Ann and Jeff Vandermeer

Ann and Jeff Vandermeer discuss talking animals, the weird/fantasy divide, and the ‘rate of fey’ as an organizing principle in their new anthology of classic fantasy. → Read More

On the Basis of Sex Shrewdly Makes RBG Into a Feminist Jimmy Stewart

Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband ... argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals → Read More

Beyond Roma: Here Are 4 Other New Netflix Films as Good as Anything in Theaters

Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance → Read More

List of Year's Favorite Films Ends With Amazing Grace

The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone → Read More

Moviegoing Experience Just Got Bigger, Better, Broader in 2018

The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter → Read More

Moviegoing Experience Just Got Bigger, Better, Broader in 2018

The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter → Read More

Beyond Roma: Here Are 4 Other New Netflix Films as Good as Anything in Theaters

Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance → Read More

Welcome to Marwen Crashes Into the Limits of Hollywood’s Imagination

At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination → Read More

List of Year's Favorite Films Ends With Amazing Grace

The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone → Read More

Ten Best Films of 2018: Roma, Into the Spider-Verse, If Beale Street Could Talk

The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone → Read More

Vice Can’t Make Sense of Dick Cheney, but It Can Give You a Headache

Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either → Read More

Beyond Roma: Here Are 4 Other New Netflix Films as Good as Anything in Theaters

Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance → Read More

On the Basis of Sex Shrewdly Makes RBG Into a Feminist Jimmy Stewart

Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband ... argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals → Read More

Vice Can’t Make Sense of Dick Cheney, but It Can Give You a Headache

Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either → Read More

Welcome to Marwen Crashes Into the Limits of Hollywood’s Imagination

At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination → Read More

Welcome to Marwen Crashes Into the Limits of Hollywood’s Imagination

At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination → Read More

Emily Blunt Rules, and Mary Poppins Returns Is Not at All Atrocious

True to the spirit of the chipper, somewhat aimless live-action Disney day killers that inspired it, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns gets better the further it wanders from its actual story. → Read More

Aquaman Proves Superheroes Are Better Down Where It’s Wetter

Not incidental to Aquaman’s pleasures is its vision of a mixed-race hero, played by a mixed-race actor, fighting to protect and understand clashing aspects of his heritage → Read More

Emily Blunt Rules, and Mary Poppins Returns Is Not at All Atrocious

True to the spirit of the chipper, somewhat aimless live-action Disney day killers that inspired it, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns gets better the further it wanders from its actual story. → Read More

Emily Blunt Rules, and Mary Poppins Returns Is Not at All Atrocious

True to the spirit of the chipper, somewhat aimless live-action Disney day killers that inspired it, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns gets better the further it wanders from its actual story. → Read More