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Molly Templeton was Eugene Weekly's longtime arts editor, now freelance movie reviewer. She is publicity manager at Tin House Books.
If there’s a singular disappointment about the documentary RBG, it’s that it’s a 97-minute movie rather than, say, a five-hour miniseries, the kind of television … Continue reading
When you’ve watched enough documentaries about musicians and performers, you begin to expect certain things from them. The beats grow familiar; the stories hum along … Continue reading
In a corner of Portland, lanky, coltish Charley (Charlie Plummer) gets up and goes for a run. On his way out, he picks up a … Continue reading
The places filmmaker Tom Huang would have liked to shoot his new film, Find Me, make up a laundry list of the West’s stunning locations: … Continue reading
It might be easier, for those of us who grew up loving Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, to view Ava DuVernay’s movie as less … Continue reading
If you’ve read Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation, you might view writer-director Alex Garland’s new adaptation of the story as yet another expedition into the … Continue reading
In the Italian countryside that director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) adores, 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is in the middle of a summer about which … Continue reading
I, Tonya is a strange beast. Craig Gillespie’s new film is often painfully accurate in its visual depiction of poverty, but apt to put a … Continue reading
Within hours of The Last Jedi’s release, a lot of internet discourse about the film turned hostile. If you loved the movie, you were a … Continue reading
In Lady Bird, her directorial debut, Greta Gerwig looks at familiar moments of teen dramedy — parental spats, ill-chosen crushes, disagreements with friends, a chafing … Continue reading