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Paul Schrodt

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Brüno (2009) 68% EDIT “At the very least, Brüno signals that while politics lag behind, the culture are ready to move on.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 19, 2018 Full Review Sleepwalk With Me (2012) 83% EDIT “The narrative of the struggling comedian on the road is the one Sleepwalk with Me gets right.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Spring Breakers (2012) 67% EDIT “The sheer indistinctiveness of the plot allows Korine to rub up against it in his own distinctive way, cake it in the grime and dreamy, elliptical asides he's known for. Along the way, the movie becomes something more than the sum of its very cheap parts.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Mixed Nuts (1994) 16% EDIT “Even for a Christmas comedy, it's blasphemous -- delightfully so.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% EDIT “Certainly the funniest and possibly the truest comedy about male friendship.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review The Last Stand (2013) 61% EDIT “The refusal to make fun of these kind of Old West tropes is, oddly, what makes The Last Stand most relevant of all.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Hunger (2008) 90% EDIT “It's hard to say what's more visceral: Fassbender's embodiment of a whittling body that refuses to give out, or McQueen's extended shots of prison brutality and the mess of cleaning it up.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Okja (2017) 87% EDIT “Okja has a heart and an original story that's about actual ideas.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 21, 2017 Full Review When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “Spike Lee's political statement is one of humanism, and the result is his most potent work in years.” – Slant Magazine May 21, 2015 Full Review EDIT “Although I'm not sure two movie credits qualify Lucky McKee as a "master" of horror, the young director has managed to contribute by far the most compelling episode yet to Showtime's hit-or-miss series.” – Slant Magazine May 21, 2015 Full Review Cosmopolis (2012) 67% EDIT “It's effective for all the reasons, as propaganda, it's not: It's messy and goofy and unsettling.” – Esquire Magazine Aug 21, 2012 Full Review Good Neighbours (2010) 67% 1.5/4 EDIT “The tone of the film is off-key from the beginning, a fact that's not helped by the presence of Speedman, onetime Felicity heartthrob.” – Slant Magazine Jul 28, 2011 Full Review Jig (2011) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “The documentary Jig presents a world that approaches child pageantry in its self-contained weirdness.” – Slant Magazine Jun 15, 2011 Full Review Beautiful Boy (2010) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “Its unmoored, oxygen-deprived atmosphere reflects the current mood of grief literature, inspired by Joan Didion's groundbreaking The Year of Magical Thinking.” – Slant Magazine Jun 3, 2011 Full Review Spork (2010) 55% 1.5/4 EDIT “Never feels authentically out-there because it still more or less toes the line of every teen comedy from Welcome to the Dollhouse to Mean Girls.” – Slant Magazine May 27, 2011 Full Review Hard Breakers (2010) 14% 2/4 EDIT “The film might be the closest approximation to the gender inverse of an Apatow flick.” – Slant Magazine May 19, 2011 Full Review The Conspirator (2010) 56% 2/4 EDIT “The Conspirator is an über-genre movie, a hybrid of two classic Hollywood modes--the historical reenactment and the courtroom drama--that tries to satisfy the demands of both.” – Slant Magazine Apr 14, 2011 Full Review Trust (2010) 79% .5/4 EDIT “Characters are less characters than placards in a revved-up PSA about the Gen Y horrors of teen rape.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2011 Full Review Mala Noche (1986) 96% EDIT “White and other critics have accused the director of "race and class indifference," but Van Sant's approach has always been personal and deeply confessional, if not outwardly political.” – House Next Door Mar 4, 2011 Full Review The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966) EDIT “It would be hard to believe that Gus Van Sant hadn't seen The Velvet Underground and Nico, Andy Warhol's landmark recording of an hour-long performance by the band, before he made Last Days.” – House Next Door Mar 4, 2011 Full Review Putty Hill (2010) 74% 3/4 EDIT “As with the nod to skating culture, Porterfield reclaims cheesy pop-culture detritus to illuminate his characters' need for escape.” – Slant Magazine Feb 17, 2011 Full Review Dressed (2011) 0% 1.5/4 EDIT “As movies about the fashion world go, Dressed isn't very fabulous.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2011 Full Review The Dilemma (2011) 24% 1/4 EDIT “Ron Howard movies inspire that rare kind of allergic reaction: They're so unremarkable they're actually frustrating.” – Slant Magazine Jan 13, 2011 Full Review Gulliver's Travels (2010) 19% 1.5/4 EDIT “Marketed as a hip, modern adaptation of a classic, the movie feels more like a Christmastime TV special projected in 3D.” – Slant Magazine Dec 22, 2010 Full Review Life as We Know It (2010) 29% 2/4 EDIT “It's easy to become cynical about a certain brand of funny-sad familial comedies like Life as We Know It.” – Slant Magazine Oct 13, 2010 Full Review
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