Stephin Merritt is one of my favorite songwriters and they’ve made a movie about him. Stephin embodies a part of New York City I love.

‘Strange Powers’, which surveys Mr. Merritt’s career and captures his uneasy relationship with fame (he wants it, but doesn’t want to be seen wanting it), sometimes feels like a cross between a standard rock biography and ‘Grey Gardens’.

Read the NY Times review of Strange Powers here.