Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins reviews movies for NPR.org, as well as for , which covers the Washington, D.C., film scene with an emphasis on art, foreign and repertory cinema.
Jenkins spent most of his career in the industry once known as newspapers, working as an editor, writer, art director, graphic artist and circulation director, among other things, for various papers that are now dead or close to it.
He covers popular and semi-popular music for The Washington Post, Blurt, Time Out New York, and the newsmagazine show Metro Connection, which airs on member station -FM.
Jenkins is co-author, with Mark Andersen, of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. At one time or another, he has written about music for Rolling Stone, Slate, and NPR's All Things Considered, among other outlets.
He has also written about architecture and urbanism for various publications, and is a writer and consulting editor for the Time Out travel guide to Washington. He lives in Washington.
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Writer/director Susanna Nicchiarelli's scrappy biopic, which features a standout performance from Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, examines the final days of the '60s icon's life.
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In this goofy Wild West farce from the Zellner Brothers, a fop (Robert Pattinson) and his miniature horse (Butterscotch) set out to rescue a young woman (Mia Wasikowska) who needs no rescuing.
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Criminals converge on a grubby hotel that doubles as an underground hospital in this pulpy, violent take on Los Angeles noir that's not as assured or as stylish as it needs to be.
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A heist isn't as easy as the movies might lead you to believe. That's the lesson learned by four brats who try to steal expensive rare books in a fact-based story about being terrible at crime.
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Elle Fanning stars in this uneven, "perfumed account" of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's romance with poet Percy Shelley, and the fateful weekend that birthed her novel Frankenstein.
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Greg Barker's film favors candid emotional moments over a meaningful examination of how key policy initiatives were shaped in the closing months of the Obama presidency.
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A boy born with a facial disfigurement enters a new school in this low-stakes, superficial "sundae-sweet tale" from the director of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Norwegian director Joachim Trier's mercurial tale of a college student who develops frightening abilities once she leaves her strict family descends into standard scary-movie tropes.
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This documentary, compiled from 16 short films by different directors shot on Election Day 2016, offers "a tightly woven series of close-ups of a diverse, divided populace."
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Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund ruthlessly roasts the art community in this loose, leisurely paced series of deadpan vignettes.