Alan Scherstuhl

Alan Scherstuhl

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:
Alan Scherstuhl is film editor at the Village Voice. He also covers books, music, and other matters for the Voice, in addition to writing Studies in Crap, his ongoing humor column about bizarre books and ephemera found at junkshops. He is on Twitter at @studiesincrap.
Total Reviews:
55

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
—— The World Before Her (2013) " With extraordinary access, Pahuja illuminates extraordinary conflicts and contradictions facing modern girls in a country even less ready for them than ours." — Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
—— Occupy Love (2013) " Vague as all this is, the photography is beautiful, the scenes of crowds and their signs arresting, and the interviews with individual protesters-in Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, teargassed Oakland, and even melting Greenland-are often inspiring." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
83% What Maisie Knew (2013) " The film is admirably committed to simulating the messy experience of life as a real Maisie might live it." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
—— Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic () " Zenovich has assembled better-than-usual talking heads, all sympathetic even when dishing the worst bad behavior." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 29, 2013
—— Dark Touch () " For all its soaring cutlery, Dark Touch, like much of the best horror, works the fears that connect to real life." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 24, 2013
42% Midnight's Children (2013) " So lavish and unwieldy is the book, Rushdie's best, that a film of it can't help but feel like a helpless reduction, like a bucket of water passed off as an ocean." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
—— Mortem (2013) " Atlan films it with such black-and-white brio that complaints that none of its depths really to warrant your plumbing seem beside the point." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
98% Mud (2013) " McConaughey, of course, is excellent." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
87% Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) " What sticks with you is Jay, supremely calm, his body's every stray movement natural and normal even as you come to suspect that they're anything but." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2013
56% Oblivion (2013) " Director Kosinski proves himself talented in ways his Tron: Legacy didn't suggest." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2013
77% 42 (2013) " A likable hagiography as nuanced as a plaque at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 11, 2013
76% It's a Disaster (2013) " Perhaps the first great indie apocalypse potluck comedy." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 10, 2013
68% Disconnect (2013) " While well-crafted and at times moving, screenwriter Andrew Stern's cautionary tales can't help but feel behind the curve, the news they're so urgently sharing already fully absorbed by the culture." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 9, 2013
92% Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) " That T. rex is worth the wait, but the wait itself is even more memorable." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
9% The Host (2013) " The Host's infelicities-drab dialogue, ridiculous plotting, more emotional crises than there is story-are enlivened by its thematic eccentricities." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 29, 2013
28% G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) " It's not enough to call this the rare franchise action movie to bring the goods; it's the even rarer one whose creators seem to understand what the goods even are." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 27, 2013
70% Wrong (2013) " The film's heady buzz is invigorating, and there are substantial pleasures-and laughs-to be found in all its real-life-just-gone-sour strangeness." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 27, 2013
59% Detour (2013) " During the best sequences, Detour feels like three heady improvisations all happening at once ..." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 26, 2013
90% My Brother The Devil (2013) " A tender, bracing fraternal drama of London's gang life, the immigrant experience, and questions no smaller than what "manhood" might mean to young men whose traditional cultures are colliding with the worst-and the best-of the secular west." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
45% Leonie (2013) " "Love is one of life's most spiritual and beautiful chapters," Mortimer is forced to purr. Later: "It seems I am fated to move wherever it is I seek to build my dream."" — Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
92% Top of the Lake (2013) " Jane Campion's smart, bracing, hugely enjoyable mystery rural noir ..." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 13, 2013
67% Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013) " Roth was dashing, charming, a little dangerous, one of his college friends tells us, but she doesn't need to say it. It's manifest, and it's still true." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
38% The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) " Carell again plays oblivious in the fitfully inspired magician comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, but he doesn't play human." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
50% Clip (2013) " Maja Milos's aggressive and upsetting first film ..." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
—— Citizen Hearst (2013) " Sometimes Citizen Hearst feels as breezy and electric as the newsreels Hearst pioneered; other times it feels like the video they'll make you watch during orientation on your first day at 300 West 57th." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 6, 2013
40% The Other Side of the Ice (2013) " Too much of the movie is just people being crabby (or, later, dumb!) in fascinating places, which is less enthralling than the places themselves." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 6, 2013
63% The Monk (2013) " The finale, in which godly rites are juxtaposed against the vilest of sins, builds to an unholy power." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
35% Dark Skies (2013) " Stewart has some lofty ambitions, some of which he almost fulfills." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 24, 2013
15% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " No two viewers will assemble the same narrative from this Rorschach of running men, crashing glass, and hollered exposition." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 13, 2013
45% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " Its primness aside, the movie is terrific fun and much more affecting than Twilight or Supernatural." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2013
27% Saving Lincoln (2013) " Imagine the stiffness of a Star Wars prequel but without the bravura technique." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2013
20% Identity Thief (2013) " McCarthy gets bashed about like a Stooge, and she bashes back with riotous abandon. Sadly, the rest of the movie is a shambles." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2013
100% Sound City (2013) " Grohl treats us to just more than an hour celebrating the history of Sound City, the Van Nuys dump where a clutch of rock's great records were bashed out-but the movie's 107 minutes long." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2013
87% Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) " It's fitting that this film of people making do with what they have should itself look somewhat humble, without lyricism, a work not of beauty but of work-which is the thing that makes it beautiful, no matter who directed it." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2013
100% Stolen Seas (2013) " This drama is couched in illuminating context ..." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2013
50% Clandestine Childhood (2013) " A charming, involving first feature, Clandestine Childhood muscles its familiar coming-of-age material into something more vibrant and urgent than the usual." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 9, 2013
47% Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (2012) " The rare movie whose title serves as an accurate indicator of whether you will enjoy seeing it." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 19, 2012
95% West of Memphis (2012) " This is a movie that can stun you." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
52% This is 40 (2012) " Much like marriage, This Is 40 is somewhat formless, and it almost never hurries up. But life is improved by having the option." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
37% Stand Up Guys (2013) " It plays out like you would fear." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2012
88% Tchoupitoulas (2012) " Questions about the literal truth of Tchoupitoulas are thorny and perhaps besides the point. After all, the filmmakers aren't hiding the artifice." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 5, 2012
38% Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) " It's dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses, should exhibit so little interest in what engaged its hero ..." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
80% Wagner & Me (2012) " This sprightly doc considers one of the tougher questions of morality and aesthetics ..." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
27% Addicted To Fame (2012) " Cheap-o, disingenuous ..." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 27, 2012
89% Lincoln (2012) " Lincoln is the work of a different director, one truly fascinated by why his subjects do what they do, one who invests each moment with the artistry he has often reserved for setpieces." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
79% Miami Connection (2012) " Absurd, yes, but director Richard Park and his game and guileless cast have the highest of spirits, and the nonsense bubbles like a bottle uncorked." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2012
45% The Details (2012) " As if to justify its own title, The Details is familiar in its plotting but uproarious in its incidents." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2012
25% Dinotasia (2012) " If they're never fully convincing as photo-realistic figures, they're certainly as much good gory fun to watch as any old-school monster kids had to stick with dreary first acts to see." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2012
90% Bad 25 (2012) " Spike Lee has given the world the first tribute that fully measures up to Jackson the artist. Come on and get you sham on." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 17, 2012
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