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Articles by Andrew Schenker
Protective parents Wang (left) and St. John.
In the Family: The Ardors of Being a...
By Andrew Schenker • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

With an incisive understanding of character, believably naturalistic acting, and lengthy scenes that don’t feel so much stretched out as…

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It's always a good time to see Willis in action.
Looper: Bruce Willis Tries to Kill Himself
By Andrew Schenker • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

Early in Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sits at a diner and chats with his self from 30…

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Wright arranges her outing to maximum media effect.
Wish Me Away: A Country Star’s Carefully Stage-Managed...
By Andrew Schenker • July 2, 2012 12:00 am

What it lacks in artfulness, Wish Me Away makes up for in emotive force. Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf’s documentary…

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High School: Making Pot No Fun at All
High School: Making Pot No Fun at All
By Andrew Schenker • May 29, 2012 12:00 am

Its opening shots replete with heavily fetishized close-ups of kids taking hits off joints and its dialogue peppered with lines…

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Somebody's not what they seem: Grace (left) and Gere.
The Double: Richard Gere, Fire Your Agent
By Andrew Schenker • November 1, 2011 12:00 am

Michael Brandt’s post–Cold War spy film is grade-B hokum, but it’s not without its occasional generic thrills. Apparently more adept…

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Markopolos testifies before the Senate Banking Committee.
Chasing Madoff: The Whistleblower’s Lament
By Andrew Schenker • September 13, 2011 12:00 am

Brimming over with outrage not so much at the eponymous Ponzi schemer as at the government body that failed to…

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Two old villagers study a likewise depleted tree.
The Sky Turns: The Portrait of a Dying...
By Andrew Schenker • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

An award winner at Rotterdam way back in 2005, Mercedes Álvarez’s The Sky Turns, a film that aims to both…

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Director Gerima.
Teza: Ethiopia, Then and Now
By Andrew Schenker • April 27, 2010 12:00 am

Spanning two decades of his nation’s fraught history and invoking the legacy of at least three more, Haile Gerima’s Teza…

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Huppert defends her roadside abode.
Home: Isabelle Huppert Versus the Freeway
By Andrew Schenker • February 16, 2010 12:00 am

The opening scenes of Home—a nighttime game of street hockey, a bathing session that turns into a five-way splash fight—establish…

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The End of Poverty?: The Economic Meltdown Is Global
The End of Poverty?: The Economic Meltdown Is...
By Andrew Schenker • December 1, 2009 12:00 am

“Colonialism is always part of the expansion of capitalism,” opines Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in Philippe Diaz’s devastating,…

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