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Review of The Devout (2015)

By Zach Middleton (16) for Willamette Week (516) on 10 Nov 2016

In his feature debut, British Columbian writer and director Connor Gaston shows narrative vision, resourcefulness (the few special effects…

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Review of Tower (2016)

By Zach Middleton (16) for Willamette Week (516) on 10 Nov 2016

Some animations are effective, like the hallucinogenic visions of a pregnant woman bleeding out on the pavement, or the angular, adrenalized…

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Review of Gimme Danger (2016)

By Nathan Carson (10) for Willamette Week (516) on 10 Nov 2016

Jarmusch leaves no fingerprints, making this documentary a rather straightforward, artless exercise…

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Review of The Pearl (2016)

By Walker Macmurdo (18) for Willamette Week (516) on 10 Nov 2016

The Pearl isn't some late-night infomercial selling transgender rights to an uneducated audience. It simply wishes to show trans humanity…

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Review of Beware the Slenderman (2016)

By Zach Middleton (16) for Willamette Week (516) on 10 Nov 2016

What may be the spookiest insight of Beware the Slenderman isn't the storybook monster, or the disturbed children, but the potential for hellish…

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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 10 Nov 2016

A morally repugnant bloodbath from its shallow, sermonizing first act to its ferociously brutal finale…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer (41) for Willamette Week (516) on 02 Nov 2016

Every piece of Moonlight is staged in service to a humanist question: What would love mean to a boy who's been conditioned to hide…

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Review of Supersonic (2016)

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 02 Nov 2016

Future documentarians, please don't put your films in the hands of a rock-'n'-roll band. They'll throw it all away…

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Review of Under the Shadow (2016)

By Grace Culhane (5) for Willamette Week (516) on 25 Oct 2016

Anvari employs only the cream of the horror-trope crop, from decapitated dolls to creepy mute children and a newly abandoned Cold War-era apartment…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Walker Macmurdo (18) for Willamette Week (516) on 25 Oct 2016

The Handmaiden is an undeniably lush, meticulously constructed film whose celebration of perversity is among the most artful you'll see…

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Review of The Lost Arcade (2015)

By Curtis Cook (17) for Willamette Week (516) on 25 Oct 2016

The Lost Arcade is an endearing documentary, but the film nonetheless feels significantly longer than its sub-hour and twenty minute run time…

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Review of Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 19 Oct 2016

The Joneses, blessedly, draws down the scope and extends each scene for lovingly etched performances to flesh out the creeping unease of marital…

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Review of Do Not Resist (2017)

By Curtis Cook (17) for Willamette Week (516) on 11 Oct 2016

Sure to affirm those who already agree with the documentary's ideology, convert a few wavering civilians, and shame anyone out there who legitimately…

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Review of White Girl (2016)

By Walker Macmurdo (18) for Willamette Week (516) on 11 Oct 2016

When White Girl isn't dressing up as a morality play, it sharply confronts the social and political anxieties of the most idealistic generation…

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Review of Phantasm: Ravager (2016)

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 04 Oct 2016

For all the OTT schlock spectacle and community-theater-quality performances, there's a tangible bond between the characters that gathers emotive…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Grace Culhane (5) for Willamette Week (516) on 04 Oct 2016

What emerges is an empathetic, often harrowing depiction of life in the poorest crevices of the American heartland, a sometimes sweet, sometimes…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 04 Oct 2016

Cameraperson still commands your attention, hooking you with loose, tender moments…

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Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

By Walker Macmurdo (18) for Willamette Week (516) on 04 Oct 2016

Nation is a big, difficult, still important mess…

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Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Sep 2016

Deepwater Horizon is too incoherent to be gripping and doesn't acknowledge that the Deepwater tragedy not only gave rise to courage under oil…

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Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer (41) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Sep 2016

Get caught up in the sentiment, brush past some glaring overdubbing, and this is the kind of story you'll know very well told in rare fashion…

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