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Rick Levin

Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.

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When Worse Comes to Worst

Two friends fall out in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin

Film 3 months ago

It was Hegel who famously quipped that all we really learn from history is that people learn nothing from history. Yowza, right? And so here … Continue reading →

The Trouble with Alek

Oregon congressional candidate presents the smiling face of Republican fascism

Guest Viewpoint 3 months ago

The coming midterm elections are trending toward a nightmare that could take many of us by surprise. Nationally, a slew of candidates energized and emboldened … Continue reading →

The Tragedy of Ustad

An alleged man-eater becomes a national controversy in director Warren Pereira’s Tiger 24

Film 6 months ago

Before I talk about director Warren Pereira’s superbly crafted and deeply moving documentary Tiger 24 — which tells the tragic true-life story of a protected … Continue reading →

Don’t Look Up

Outer space is a real issue in Jordan Peele’s sci-fi thriller Nope

Film 6 months ago

Among the many qualities I might attribute to writer/director/producer Jordan Peele — expert auteur, biting satirist, modern horror maven — the only one that really … Continue reading →

Along Came a Spider

Director Chloe Okumo subverts the voyeur thriller in Watcher

Film 8 months ago

Director Chloe Okuno’s debut film, Watcher, is not an overtly feminist take on the voyeur/stalker sub-category of the thriller genre. Working with a screenplay by … Continue reading →

Down and Out 

A young homeless couple in Eugene and Springfield is portrayed with grace and honesty in local director Jarrett Bryant’s new movie Maxie

Film 9 months ago

One of my favorite films of this past year was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, an endearing vision of young, star-crossed love that is so … Continue reading →

Don’t Sell These Short

EW’s movie critic looks at five short films nominated for the Oscars

Film 12 months ago

Short films, like short stories, are an exercise in economy and punch. They are measured in minutes, not hours, stripping away all the excelsior and … Continue reading →

Love in the Basement

Buyer & Cellar at OCT provides perfect theater for the our isolated world

Theater 1 year ago

By Rick Levin A dear friend of mine tells this story about his self-awakening: It was a Saturday night in Euclid, Ohio, sometime in the mid … Continue reading →

A Fading Echo

The new Scream is competent, scary — and barely memorable

Film 1 year ago

As a lifelong lover of movies, I’ve been blessed to experience now and again what I can only describe as a divine convergence — that … Continue reading →

Love in the ’70s

Licorice Pizza enthralls, confounds and restores

Film 1 year ago

I had no idea I’d been waiting my entire adult life for the absurd and exhilarating spectacle of Sean Penn and Tom Waits chewing up the … Continue reading →

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Rick Levin

Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.

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