
Ted Scheinman
Movies reviews only
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) |
The movie offers something more valuable than a hagiography: a rich and bittersweet film that investigates, without romanticizing, some of the anguish that lurked beneath the cool. - Washington City Paper
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| Posted Jun 25, 2019
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Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America (2018) |
There's a fine line between capitalizing on counterculture and promulgating it, and Hefner straddled that line as it suited him, in the same sad arrangement that in more recent years has given us woke corporations. - Washington City Paper
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| Posted Apr 25, 2019
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Tazzeka (2018) |
All the more powerful as a portrait of south-to-north migration in the 21st century... - Washington City Paper
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| Posted Apr 25, 2019
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) |
The film itself is so charming that you almost forget to ask whether these people truly deserve our empathy. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 26, 2013
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) |
The film itself is so charming that you almost forget to ask whether these people truly deserve our empathy. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Mar 15, 2013
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Electrick Children (2012) |
Thomas has an aversion to the easy resolution-she knows precisely which mysteries to keep dangling. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 06, 2013
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Girls Against Boys (2012) |
The B-horror standbys that might rescue the film from self-serious tedium are nowhere to be found. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 03, 2013
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Sound City (2013) |
Given Dave Grohl's reputation for versatility and good taste, the film's sturdy sense of forward motion may come as no surprise. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2013
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The Comedy (2012) |
The Comedy may not aspire to be the portrait of a generation, but it certainly offers a scary dissection of a faux-careless Brooklynite sensibility that threatens to be the undoing of everyone involved. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 09, 2012
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Charlie Is My Darling (1966) |
The doc weaves its footage into a meditation on sex, art, and money among a band not yet wearied of all three. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Oct 25, 2012
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