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Articles by Benjamin Mercer
The late Chapman in animated form.
A Liar’s Autobiography: Graham Chapman Is Still Dead
By Benjamin Mercer • October 30, 2012 12:00 am

Bent on futzing with the form, this biopic bears the strong authorial stamp of its subject, but nonetheless looks like…

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Director Clayman turns the camera on himself.
OC87: A Director Documents His Own OCD
By Benjamin Mercer • August 21, 2012 12:00 am

A largely first-person documentary about living with a range of disorders, OC87 is also, in a sense, about a long…

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Actually, few journalists are as gorgeous as Binoche.
Elles: Juliette Binoche Is Curious About Hookers
By Benjamin Mercer • May 1, 2012 12:00 am

As she prepares for a dinner party and fields rude dismissals from her two spoiled sons, journalist Anne (Juliette Binoche)…

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Hirsch gains remarkable access on an Iowa school bus.
Bully: OK, We Get It: Bullying Is Wrong
By Benjamin Mercer • April 10, 2012 12:00 am

Arriving in theaters on a wave of free publicity (its distributor, the Weinstein Company, butted heads with the MPAA over…

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Flour power?
Four Lovers: An Open Marriage Goes Predictably Bad
By Benjamin Mercer • April 3, 2012 12:00 am

Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap partners and…

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Jiro (left) with son Yoshikazu at the carving counter.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi: Yes, You’ll Be Hungry...
By Benjamin Mercer • March 27, 2012 12:00 am

Tucked away in the basement of a Tokyo office building, in a drab corridor attached to a subway station, the…

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Goldstein fights the good fight, and then some.
Battle for Brooklyn: Gentrification and Its Discontents
By Benjamin Mercer • October 4, 2011 12:00 am

Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s documentary recounts the tireless anti–Atlantic Yards efforts of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn co-founder Daniel Goldstein….

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We don't know how she does it: Kittelsen as people-pleaser.
Happy, Happy: Seriocomedy From Norway
By Benjamin Mercer • September 27, 2011 12:00 am

One miserable couple collides with another in this Norwegian cringe comedy. Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen), a chipper teacher of German and…

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Ifans as the Zelig of the international drug trade.
Mr. Nice: The True Story of an English...
By Benjamin Mercer • August 30, 2011 12:00 am

As might be expected of a globe-hopping, decades-spanning drug-smuggler biopic, Mr. Nice commences by trying to induce a contact high:…

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Peagler behind bars.
Crime After Crime: Battered Women Behind Bars
By Benjamin Mercer • August 23, 2011 12:00 am

On its face, the title is misleading. Crime After Crime sounds like a repeat-offender case study, but instead concerns the…

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