Andrew Barker is a film critic and frequent features contributor for Variety. He grew up in Stuttgart, Arkansas and Claremont, California, studied English and Italian literature at the University of Southern California, and currently lives in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. A serious cinema buff ever since he accidentally signed up for a seminar on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue in college, Andrew spends his free time writing fiction, attempting to cook, and composing lengthy, excursive essays on the hermeneutics of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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