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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) |
In an age of glowering caped crusaders, Homecoming reminds us that we should be having fun watching men in tights smack into walls. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jul 13, 2017
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Baby Driver (2017) |
It takes a scant five minutes for Baby Driver to feel like one of the best car-chase films of all time. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jun 29, 2017
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It Comes at Night (2017) |
It's the minimalist apocalyptic nightmare we never knew we needed, and a master class in lingering, universal fear. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jun 07, 2017
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Tracktown (2016) |
Though often overreaching, Pappas is most effective when focusing on Plumb's personal relationships. - Willamette Week
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| Posted May 11, 2017
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) |
Vol. 2 isn't the jolt that the first one was, but between all the action and its surprisingly poignant finale, it's a welcome addition. - Willamette Week
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| Posted May 03, 2017
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Kills on Wheels (2016) |
There are some fun bits here, but the tonal shifts -- from dark comedy to crime caper to hyper-earnest coming-of-age tale to generic family drama -- jackknifes far too often for most of it to work. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Mar 01, 2017
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The Student (2016) |
Half the film comprises a teenager screaming Bible verses, making it as much an endurance test as an invigorating cautionary tale. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Mar 01, 2017
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John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) |
John Wick was a surprise hit that might just be the best action movie of the decade. Its sequel could end up becoming a contender for second-best. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Feb 17, 2017
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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) |
Kubo transcends its kiddie-flick leanings to become a modern fable, emerging not just as the year's best animated film, but as an instant classic. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Aug 18, 2016
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Sausage Party (2016) |
This is a film that starts out funny and ratchets up the insanity. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Aug 11, 2016
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The Conjuring 2 (2016) |
When Conjuring 2 is scary, it's in a class its own. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jun 09, 2016
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The Nice Guys (2016) |
This movie starts at full speed and never stops. While there are flaws, watching these actors let loose amid a collage of explosions, gunfire, drugs and filth is just too fun to slight Black for some clichés. - Willamette Week
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| Posted May 19, 2016
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Captain America: Civil War (2016) |
Civil War is fun. It's smart. It's coherent. And, most importantly, it allows its heart to beat strongly amid the chaos, with character moments and set pieces working in tandem to create perhaps Marvel's best film so far. - Willamette Week
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| Posted May 18, 2016
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London Has Fallen (2016) |
London Has Fallen... a huge-budget debacle that simply looks like a direct-to-video toss-away, with action sequences that at best are shootouts and at worst look like cutscenes from an old Playstation game, with added gay panic and racism. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Mar 10, 2016
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Sworn Virgin (2015) |
The film presents a fascinating look at gender, and though it's often a bit dull and completely whiffs the ending, its approach is a prime example of drawing robust characters without resorting to broad strokes. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Feb 25, 2016
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Sivas (2014) |
Despite its stark realism-shot with shaky camera, so you know it's gritty-this Turkish coming-of-age drama is a classic story of a boy and his dog. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Feb 25, 2016
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Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) |
The actors are wonderful in the play's extremely long takes. Problem is, their characters-he an adulterous doofus, her a bore-aren't engaging enough to make you want to do this once, let alone twice - Willamette Week
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| Posted Feb 23, 2016
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Office (2015) |
It's a marvel to look at, and even if you're not into modern musicals, there's no denying this is the work of a master craftsman trying-and succeeding-to do something completely different. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Feb 23, 2016
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The Witch (2015) |
A film of deliberate pacing, painterly beauty and cold brutality, freshman director Robert Eggers' The Witch is a strange beast: a combination horror film and period piece that functions at the highest tier of both genres. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Feb 18, 2016
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Point Break (2015) |
It's as though somebody took the original, stripped it of its charm and character dynamic, then let it soak in a bucket of Mountain Dew, Red Bull and Axe body spray, then plopped it onscreen, dripping and bulging for all to see. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 07, 2016
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The Revenant (2015) |
In terms of pure spectacle and cinematic beauty, Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant approaches masterpiece status. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 07, 2016
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Ant-Man (2015) |
Ant-Man is a largely self-contained, breezy, hilarious and gorgeous heist film that manages a feat few recent superhero films do: It stands up well on its own. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 02, 2016
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The Assassin (2015) |
It's glorious to look at and impossible to stop pondering. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Nov 05, 2015
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Crimson Peak (2015) |
Crimson Peak is a vision that is del Toro's and del Toro's alone, and while it's not his most compelling work, it's very surely his most beautiful. That alone makes it worth the price of admission. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Oct 16, 2015
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The Martian (2015) |
As always, Scott's direction is spot-on, especially in terms of pure visual spectacle... Alas, Scott's hand is almost always too cold when it comes to working with a human touch. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Sep 30, 2015
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Skyfall (2012) |
One of the year's most crackling adventure films, one of Bond's most satisfying outings, and proof that you can indeed teach an old horndog new tricks. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Aug 21, 2015
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Ratatouille (2007) |
It's not just the best animated film this year, it's the best animated film to come out of the U.S. since Bird's last effort, The Incredibles. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Aug 03, 2015
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Mr. Holmes (2015) |
A film that robs one of our greatest heroes of his sunset, thrusting him instead into a prolonged, dull twilight. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jul 16, 2015
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
While it never soars to the heights of Raimi's first two films, it manages to be at once exhilarating, hilarious and bold. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jul 14, 2015
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) |
Frustrates as much as it entertains. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jul 14, 2015
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The Third Man (1949) |
What really makes the film sing, though, isn't the jaunty and iconic zither score by Anton Karas. It's the film's groundbreaking visual aesthetic, which combines noir tropes with expressionism to create a visual wonderland of living shadows. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jul 01, 2015
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It Follows (2014) |
Like Jennifer Kent's masterful The Babadook, It Follows is anchored by excellent performances and layered with subtext. - Willamette Week
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| Posted May 13, 2015
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Inherent Vice (2014) |
While some may find its strange, stream-of-consciousness approach to be grating, others will be enthralled with each and every gorgeously composed frame. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 07, 2015
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) |
For all its strengths, A Walk Among the Tombstones consistently falls victim to the Achilles' heel of any film based on a pulpy piece of airport fiction: ham-fistedness. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 06, 2015
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Interstellar (2014) |
This is a Nolan film, so nothing is simple -- or quick to the point. At nearly three hours, the film piles on the twists, wonky physics, heartfelt speeches and pseudoscience. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 05, 2015
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Locke (2013) |
This is a perfect vehicle for Hardy's talents, and despite the absence of anybody but the jagged-toothed Brit, Locke manages a strange level of tension. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 05, 2015
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A Most Wanted Man (2014) |
Perhaps it accurately conveys the more mundane side of the war on terror, but that doesn't make for an entertaining film. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 05, 2015
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Godzilla (2014) |
Edwards' reboot excels on so many levels, it's easy to forget that Godzilla originally served as a cautionary tale about nuclear testing and man's hubris in the golden age of science. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 05, 2015
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Nightcrawler (2014) |
The film is as funny as it is unsettling... and it's plenty unsettling. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 04, 2015
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Gone Girl (2014) |
Pike, meanwhile, is a revelation, offering a performance so complex that saying anything more would ruin the entire film. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 04, 2015
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) |
Despite all odds, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes really is the most emotionally engaging blockbuster you're likely to see all year, a perfect mix of explosive action and poignant drama that delivers a master class in escapist entertainment. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 04, 2015
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The LEGO Movie (2014) |
For those of us who remember the limitlessness of our imaginations as we played with little plastic blocks, this is a joy to behold. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 03, 2015
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The Babadook (2014) |
The Babadook doesn't just tower over this year's other fright films: It's one of the most emotionally affecting pieces of macabre cinema in years. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 03, 2015
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Snowpiercer (2013) |
It's the most inventive science-fiction picture in years, the most original action film in a decade and perhaps the most all-around entertaining movie so far this year. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 02, 2015
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) |
X-Men: Days of Future Past not just a great comic book movie. It's the film X-Men fans have been waiting for. It's good to have the band back together. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 02, 2015
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John Wick (2014) |
Unburdened by exposition, Reeves is free to do what he does best: be one of his generation's best action stars. John Wick is a perfect vehicle for him. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Oct 22, 2014
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42 (2013) |
42 is a hackneyed, cookie-cutter film that manages to tell us absolutely nothing about a turning point in American history. - Willamette Week
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| Posted May 07, 2014
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Transcendence (2014) |
In moving between the smaller story of tragic lovers and a greater fable about the dangers of playing God, Pfister's film jackknifes jarringly, with characters inexplicably switching allegiances and fundamentally flipping their ideals halfway through. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Apr 16, 2014
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Alphaville (1965) |
Its melding of classic Hollywood archetypes and a terrifying future was ahead of its time when it was released. Five decades later, filmmakers are still trying to catch up. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Apr 01, 2014
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Argo (2012) |
By not pandering sentimentality, Affleck has managed a task that, like its subject, seems impossible: He's taken what others would have turned into farce and emerged with one of the year's best pictures. - Willamette Week
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| Posted Jan 10, 2014
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