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    Articles by Alan Scherstuhl
    A watery Cirque prelude.
    Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3-D: Just What...
    By Alan Scherstuhl • December 21, 2012 12:00 am

    The ravishing and kitschy Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3-D is the rare movie whose title accurately indicates whether you’d…

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    Mann and Rudd make a plausible couple.
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    By Alan Scherstuhl • December 18, 2012 12:00 am

    Sadly, country songwriters stand as nearly the only entertainers in our popular culture who craft memorable art on the subject…

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    Murray gets little support from his script.
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    By Alan Scherstuhl • December 11, 2012 12:00 am

    It’s dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses,…

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    Smith (right) on the set of Illegal Aliens.
    Warming the Corpse of a Dead Celeb
    By Alan Scherstuhl • November 28, 2012 12:00 am

    Deep into Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates’ bouillon-dense fever dream of a novel, Marilyn Monroe at last manages to make it…

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    Smith on the set of her last movie.
    Addicted to Fame: The Unseemly End of Anna...
    By Alan Scherstuhl • November 27, 2012 12:00 am

    David Giancola’s cheapo, disingenuous doc contributes one painful scene to the collective understanding of what it must feel like to…

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    The president visits the battlefield.
    Spielberg’s Lincoln Comeback
    By Alan Scherstuhl • November 14, 2012 12:00 am

    The first few minutes of Lincoln (review) play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg’s detractors. The Great…

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    What are they waiting for? Harrelson (left) and Walken.
    Seven Psychopaths: Colin Farrell as a Troubled Hollywood...
    By Alan Scherstuhl • October 9, 2012 12:00 am

    Writer/director Martin McDonagh contrives to have his hero, an Irish screenwriter with the “get it” name Marty (Colin Farrell), dressed…

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    Shut Up, Little Man!: Worst. Roommates. Ever
    Shut Up, Little Man!: Worst. Roommates. Ever
    By Alan Scherstuhl • September 21, 2011 12:00 am

    On the cuss-filled tapes that made them unwitting (and unknowing) celebrities, San Francisco roommates Raymond and Peter provided the bleakest…

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