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Alan Scherstuhl

Alan Scherstuhl is film editor and writer at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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Beyond Roma: Here Are 4 Other New Netflix Films as Good as Anything in Theaters

By Alan Scherstuhl
Dec 29, 2018

Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance
Top 10 Films of 2018

By Alan Scherstuhl
Dec 28, 2018

The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone
A Toast to 2018, the Year Movies Roared Back

By Alan Scherstuhl
Dec 28, 2018

The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter
Welcome to Marwen Crashes Into the Limits of Hollywood’s Imagination

By Alan Scherstuhl
Dec 27, 2018

At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination
On the Basis of Sex Shrewdly Makes RBG Into a Feminist Jimmy Stewart

By Alan Scherstuhl
Dec 23, 2018

Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband ... argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals