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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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Review of Carol (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

A slow, intellectual, coming-of-age romance, Carol is a stunningly filmed piece of emotionally distant art…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

A slow, intellectual, coming-of-age romance, Carol is a stunningly filmed piece of emotionally distant art…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

Gerwig and her cast and crew make Lady Bird look so easy that you might initially write it off as charming and slight - but this cinematic…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

It's hard to see where to land... and Beatriz at Dinner doesn't stick the landing…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

It's so rare to see a film about adults struggling with adulthood that feels like a life rather than a collection of clichés…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

A slow, intellectual, coming-of-age romance, Carol is a stunningly filmed piece of emotionally distant art…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

This is Diana's journey, and it is a beautiful and affecting indictment of the kind of people who have power yet can move through the world…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 26 Aug 2018

A movie that improves on the novel on which it's based is a rare bird - and Room is all the more rare, as Emma Donoghue wrote both…

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