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Andrew Schenker

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Home (2008) 93% EDIT “Working with all-star DP Agnès Godard, Meier effectively communicates the sense of upended privacy.” – Village Voice Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Walt & El Grupo (2008) 57% 1/4 EDIT “Whatever glamour theres to be found in this Yanks-below-the-border venture is imperfectly conveyed to the audience because of a scarcity of suitable archival material.” – Slant Magazine Apr 6, 2022 Full Review Tickling Leo (2009) 31% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Holocaust new wave continues with Tickling Leo, this time drawing on a little-known historical footnote as the haunted backdrop for an otherwise tepid contemporary drama.” – Slant Magazine Feb 28, 2015 Full Review Revenge of the Mekons (2013) 88% 3/4 EDIT “What emerges is a portrait of a fully committed band that could never quite make it and of the rock n' roll project as something between a (very serious) hobby and a full-time career.” – Slant Magazine Oct 26, 2014 Full Review Towheads (2013) 67% .5/4 EDIT “There's but one sequence in the entire movie that offers even the slightest bit of filmmaking verve, and even this speaks to the project's essential myopia.” – Slant Magazine Jan 19, 2014 Full Review S#x Acts (2013) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “In its refusal to bring an easy understanding to its main character's behavior, it comes dangerously close to presenting her as a willing perpetrator in her own victimhood.” – Slant Magazine Dec 1, 2013 Full Review Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) 61% 1.5/4 EDIT “A cursory history lesson with no interest in probing the deeper or more complex implications of Mandela's positions and their relationship to his country's shifting landscape.” – Slant Magazine Nov 23, 2013 Full Review GBF (2013) 80% 3/4 EDIT “The film, lensed in appealing candy-striped colors, has so much fun exploding stereotypes and radiates with such infectious comic gusto and genuine good nature, that it would be almost churlish to resist its charms.” – Slant Magazine Nov 22, 2013 Full Review It's Me, It's Me (2013) 2/4 EDIT “Alternating between self-consciously offbeat comedy and existential J-horror, It's Me, It's Me never quite satisfies in either mode.” – Slant Magazine Nov 4, 2013 Full Review A Case of You (2013) 47% 1/4 EDIT “Kat Coiro's film takes the comedy of discomfort to new levels of cringe-worthiness by presenting.” – Slant Magazine Nov 1, 2013 Full Review Paradise (2013) 20% 2/4 EDIT “The film smartly avoids the sort of cynical hijinks that characterize the majority of Vegas-set flicks, though it can't come up with anything more compelling to place in its stead.” – Slant Magazine Oct 14, 2013 Full Review The Invisible Woman (2013) 76% 2/4 EDIT “Ralph Fiennes's film feels not so much rooted in the past as it is mired in conventions about how to portray that past.” – Slant Magazine Oct 10, 2013 Full Review Stray Dogs (2013) 86% 4/4 EDIT “Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions.” – Slant Magazine Sep 25, 2013 Full Review On the Job (2013) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “A nose-to-the-ground crime thriller that also doubles as a wide-ranging portrait of official corruption in the Philippines, On the Job has little trouble delivering the genre goods.” – Slant Magazine Sep 23, 2013 Full Review At Berkeley (2013) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “The crisis that looms over every minute of the film's four hours is the ongoing threat and increasing actuality of budget cuts.” – Slant Magazine Sep 17, 2013 Full Review Like Father, Like Son (2013) 86% 2/4 EDIT “The film scores all of its thematic points early, commenting intriguingly, if ultimately rather obviously, on the demands of Japanese patriarchy.” – Slant Magazine Sep 17, 2013 Full Review Thanks for Sharing (2012) 50% 2/4 EDIT “Is an exploration of sex addiction, in all its different manifestations, the new flavor of the week in contemporary American cinema?” – Slant Magazine Sep 14, 2013 Full Review After Tiller (2013) 92% 3/4 EDIT “It gives a true sense of how the forces of a hypocritically religious country has burdened countless young women with a lifetime of misplaced guilt.” – Slant Magazine Sep 14, 2013 Full Review Don Jon (2013) 80% 1.5/4 EDIT “Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Don Jon, does for porn-dependence what Shame did for sex addiction by offering a surface-level look at the effects of its specific pathology on its lead male character.” – Slant Magazine Sep 11, 2013 Full Review GMO OMG (2013) 56% 2/5 EDIT “Why anyone would think that home movies of the director and his kids belong in a social-issues doc is a truly WTF question.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2013 Full Review Museum Hours (2012) 94% 4/5 EDIT “A look around Vienna's legendary gallery provides some unexpectedly enlightening moments.” – Little White Lies Sep 5, 2013 Full Review I Am Breathing (2013) 92% 2/5 EDIT “Unfortunately, the only other thing they're able to provide is Platt's bland encouragements to live life before it's too late.” – Time Out Sep 3, 2013 Full Review A Teacher (2013) 34% EDIT “Fidell seems ill-prepared to steer the film into strictly psychological territory, resulting in a project that loses its fraught sense of control at the same moment as its embattled protagonist.” – Village Voice Sep 3, 2013 Full Review Winnie (2011) 19% 2/5 EDIT “What starts as a standard worshipful biopic of Winnie Mandela (Jennifer Hudson) suddenly shifts gears after her release from a year-plus jail stint.” – Time Out Sep 3, 2013 Full Review Fire in the Blood (2012) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Only Gray's reliance on bland visuals and recourse to the conventional talking-heads docu-template dull the power of his imperative exposé.” – Time Out Sep 3, 2013 Full Review
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