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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 18 Apr 2017

So much of the film is done so well and so thoughtfully, with such seriousness of intent pulsing through the batshit concept, that audiences…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 18 Apr 2017

The Promise will not be denied as George powerfully dramatizes stunning acts of both savagery and decency…

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Review of David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 18 Apr 2017

Lynch mostly sticks to generalizations about each major period discussed, rarely offering the poignant anecdotal touches that would keep a…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 18 Apr 2017

Human scale and recognizable emotions are a poor match for the ever-escalating spectacles of a franchise veering cosmically-deranged one mile…

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Review of The Promise (2016)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 18 Apr 2017

The Promise will not be denied as George powerfully dramatizes stunning acts of both savagery and decency…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Walker Macmurdo (18) for Willamette Week (516) on 12 Apr 2017

The action is a blurry mess of jump cuts and extraordinarily annoying slo-mo flips [but] director Rupert Sanders has created one of the most…

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Review of Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 12 Apr 2017

Remember this, moviegoers: You deserve better than the Smurfs…

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Review of Gifted (2017)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 11 Apr 2017

Picture Kramer vs…

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Review of Going in Style (2017)

By Jack Rushall (4) for Willamette Week (516) on 11 Apr 2017

What one might not expect is a plot that's fairly heinous, both morally and logistically, with characters who remain justified and likable throughout…

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Review of Tommy's Honour (2017)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 11 Apr 2017

The film ultimately collapses because it's too slow and tasteful to deliver the crowd-pleasing fervor that a great sports film demands…

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Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer (41) for Willamette Week (516) on 11 Apr 2017

Heartfelt to the end, Brigsby cherishes a thought experiment on the blissful, solipsistic delusion any superfan occasionally harbors: Did somebody…

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Review of Life (2017)

By Isabel Zacharias (10) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Mar 2017

The lazy choice of villain and the throwaway story it occupies serve as reminders that big-budget movies, even given every opportunity to be…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Isabel Zacharias (10) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Mar 2017

The graphic novel's initial intention was to parody the Sunday funnies, which it executed with an impeccable wit and subtlety that cannot,…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By Walker Macmurdo (18) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Mar 2017

Marillier seamlessly transitions from cloistered nerd to hypersexed party wastrel, playing her discovery that she's a beautiful young woman…

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Review of The Boss Baby (2017)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Mar 2017

Sadly, this breathtakingly ludicrous premise is undermined by the film's insultingly obvious lessons about the virtues of teamwork…

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Review of The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer (41) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Mar 2017

Frankly, it's the kind of movie that if it were any good would have been released in November as quintessential awards bait…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Isabel Zacharias (10) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Mar 2017

The graphic novel's initial intention was to parody the Sunday funnies, which it executed with an impeccable wit and subtlety that cannot,…

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Review of Donald Cried (2017)

By Isabel Zacharias (10) for Willamette Week (516) on 23 Mar 2017

Donald Cried employs that darkly comedic, funny but almost unwatchable sensibility that is slowly becoming…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 23 Mar 2017

By setting our anti-heroes' self-mythologizing against Veronika's own willfully-blocked horrors or the waking nightmare of Spud's all-too-clear-eyed…

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Review of The Last Word (2017)

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 23 Mar 2017

The Last Word is a mechanically sentimental film about a fiercely unsentimental woman…

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