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Review of Still Alice (2014)

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

That simple question is part of what gives Still Alice a particular resonance and makes its inexorable slide bearable; it's not a movie about…

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

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

It's just a life, full of strangeness and beauty, abounding with some things and lacking others…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

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

There's something deeply cynical in Payne's work, and Nebraska's uneasy balance of bitter and sweet makes it feel like a Willy Vlautin novel…

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Review of Enough Said (2013)

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

Bittersweet, smart and oddly comforting, Enough Said is further confirmation that Holofcener is one of the most perceptive writer-directors…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

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

For those of us who weren't there, the era seems so perfectly recreated that nothing escapes the film; it's like a short story you fall into…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

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

Watching Mason change over the years is gloriously authentic, but most of the change is external; his character never shifts very far from…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

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 How I Live Now (2013)

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

How I Live Now is a drastically different sort of film, though Ronan's performance is one of her best yet…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

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

12 Years a Slave is a story that shows, efficiently and clearly, how institutionalized bigotry is a thing that affects everyone, even those…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

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 Mistress America (2015)

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

Near the end, the story becomes central in a moral quandary that Baumbach and Gerwig are smart enough not to resolve with a tidy answer…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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

Age of Ultron goes big - big cast, worldwide destruction, giant robot army - but in the end, it feels like very little happened…

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Review of Kill Your Darlings (2013)

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

It's DeHaan, though, that makes this film…

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Review of Her (2013)

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 The Imitation Game (1980)

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

This isn't a movie with any ideas about that. It just wants to portray the Turing that beat Enigma, and in that it does a perfectly reasonable job…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

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

Shadows has a drawn-out sketch feel that renders it more The Real World: Vampires…

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Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

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

If Jarmush's atmospheric, blood-and-bohemians style is your thing, you might not want to leave…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

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

This isn't a movie with any ideas about that. It just wants to portray the Turing that beat Enigma, and in that it does a perfectly reasonable job…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

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

Longtime screenwriter and first-time director Dan Gilroy loses some of the resonance when Bloom starts crossing lines, but there's another…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

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

If nothing else, The Skeleton Twins taught me something I didn't know: I might be willing to watch Bill Hader in anything…

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