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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

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

As Eilis Lacey, Saoirse Ronan carries this film so splendidly that in any year that was not so utterly Brie Larson's, it would be a crime not…

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Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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

Waititi's genius is for finding comedy gold in the little interactions between people - the misunderstandings, the callbacks, the connections,…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

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

Thoughtful, smart and eerily timely in its look at the dangers of blind loyalty, it's easily one of the best films of the year…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

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

As the Rogue One draws to its utterly stunning space-battle close, it seems to feel it needs to hold hands with A New Hope - when it really…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

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

What is The Revenant if not mythologizing…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

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

Funny, tense, clever and assured, Get Out speaks to the lie of the post-racial world without ever letting the white part of its audience off the hook…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

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

An angry, uncomfortable Hunger Games is not the thing of box office records. So here we are. At the end, unsatisfied, but victorious…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

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

But on many levels, The Last Jedi is the antithesis of the virulent discourse it generates: a reminder that flaws can give way to strengths,…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

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

Each woman gets her portrait painted in the course of the film, from youth to adulthood, and Mills is generous and unjudging in these scenes…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

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

Homecoming can't get too deep into the darker side of heroic activity - it's Spider-Man's movie, after all, his coming-of-age, his acceptance…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

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

At least these superfriends can still crack a joke (I've never been more grateful for Anthony Mackie's light touch) and, for all its seriousness,…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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

T's by no means a perfect film, but it's an action movie with a heart and a mind, built to do much more than just make you feel as if you've…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

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

Dizzying, biting, full of great performances…

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Review of Don't Think Twice (2016)

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

Through the arguments and the sadness and the jealousy, Don't Think Twice remains a quietly jubilant film, celebrating the way improv makes…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 23 Aug 2018

[Morgan] Neville is a clear-eyed, empathetic documentarian (his 20 Feet from Stardom is a must-see), and his take on Fred Rogers is a movie…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 23 Aug 2018

Writer-director Andrew Haigh's Lean On Pete is a pitch-perfect adaptation, gorgeously made and difficult to watch…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 23 Aug 2018

At best, it revels in a sense of creeping dread, loss of ownership over yourself, and the fear of experiencing without understanding…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 23 Aug 2018

Call Me By Your Name doesn't insist on your attention for much of its two-hour running length; it lets you fall in and out, its scenes glazed…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 23 Aug 2018

These characters are among the best parts of Solo, which does have good moments amid the awkward choices and ticky-boxing approach to Han's backstory…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Molly Templeton (111) for Eugene Weekly (OR) (121) on 23 Aug 2018

Key parts of the novel are there, but the essential weirdness of the book is missing, replaced with something unexpectedly gentle and inspiring…

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