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Review of Blackfish (2013)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Blackfish is a powerful reminder of how willfully ignorant - and how selfish - humanity can be…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Days of Future Past builds to an almost preposterously dramatic finale, but its central theme is rather more human-sized: the hope that people…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

If Jonze occasionally misses a beat... and he presses the too-sweet soundtrack on us in every scene - by the end, Her's sympathy is for everyone…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

So why am I so lukewarm on Suffragette? In short, it just doesn't add up…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Clever and playful and dark, it skips from notion to visual gag and back again so quickly that not all of its thoughts have a chance to gel…

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Review of Obvious Child (2009)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Obvious Child is a quiet movie, in a way; no one needs saving, and everyone's going to be ok. But it feels like a big film all the same…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

While We're Young is wickedly on the nose in its depiction of men so self-obsessed they can't see who they really are - or who their friends are…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

If occasionally the movie works too hard to manufacture dramatic points, that's easy enough to forgive in the face of the performances writer-director…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

While Amy is a thoughtful, intimate portrait of an imperfect, gloriously talented woman, it's also an indictment of not just celebrity culture…

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Review of Belle (2013)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Romantic, elegant and triumphant, Belle is as deft an exploration of the intersection of race, class and gender as I've seen on any kind of screen…

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Review of Pride (2014)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Pride is a lovingly crafted, affecting movie with an undercurrent of steel: Thirty years ago, these twentysomethings figured this out. Why can't we…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Part I is setup; it's the Empire Strikes Back of the Hunger Games series, ending on a note of moderate success, tempered by loss and steeped in grief…

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Review of Tangerine (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Baker is clear on the way comedy and tragedy fit together and isn't afraid to show one alongside the other…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Honest, smart and ugly in turns, it's a coming-of-age story on a wonderfully realistic scale, unaffected and perfectly cast…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

If Iñárritu's Biutiful couldn't let up with the ugly horrors of life, this one can't pause to inject some actual humanity into the neuroses…

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Review of The Overnight (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

It's no Your Sister's Sister; Brice isn't quite as deft at pacing or revealing details as Lynn Shelton - at least not yet…

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Review of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Shot in dreamy, lush black-and-white and full of long silences, it's a story about two loners connecting despite themselves…

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Review of Don Jon (2013)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Still, while Don Jon is far from subtle, it's still smart, honest, salaciously funny and, at times, pleasantly surprising…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

These are stories we should remember, even when imperfectly told…

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Review of Philomena (2013)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 27 Aug 2018

Bittersweet and smart, Philomena is a character piece that carefully weaves in ugly parts of American and Irish history, a story that's as…

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Molly Templeton has written reviews for:

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