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

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Rick’s Picks

EW’s long-time film critic shares his streaming favorites

Film 2 years ago

There are few modern television series I admire more than Netflix’s Ozark, an urban-to-rural family crime drama whose deep dive into moral decay would make … Continue reading →

Killer Style

A hollow man forges a new identity in the French horror comedy Deerskin

Film 2 years ago

A ghastly emptiness lies at the center of Deerskin, the latest film by French director Quentin Dupieux. That emptiness signals not fillable blank space but a … Continue reading →

No Virgin Mary

Writer/actor Kelly O'Sullivan shines as one mess of a nanny in Saint Frances

Film 2 years ago

We’ve been seeing a lot of this in cinema lately: A young or at least youngish woman, a millennial or cusping thereabouts, intelligent but adrift, … Continue reading →

Who You Gonna Ball?

A pair of ghostbusters get busy in Irish horror comedy Extra Ordinary

Film 2 years ago

Irish humor strikes my ingrained American sensibilities in a strange way, and I like it. Whereas British comedy is mannered even in its absurdity (see … Continue reading →

Housekeeping

A pair of 50-something women negotiate a strange cohabitation in OCT’s comedy The Roommate

Theater 2 years ago

For nearly 20 years now, I’ve held a regular gig reviewing local theater productions, first in Seattle and then here in Eugene. What began as … Continue reading →

The Weight

Robbie Robertson tells his story of The Band in Once Were Brothers

Film 2 years ago
Photo by Elliott Landy

My vote for greatest American rock band of all time tends to hop back and forth. Most of the time, I cast the ballot for … Continue reading →

Hotel Massachusetts

A bereaved family takes the winter trip to hell in The Lodge

Film 2 years ago

Odd, offhanded things people say can stick in your head forever, and there’s no real accounting for why. Years ago, while we were both working … Continue reading →

Sex, Death and Guinea Pigs

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s brilliant stage performance of Fleabag gets a limited run at Broadway Metro

Film 2 years ago

You might think you know Phoebe Waller-Bridge. You might, like me, even think you love her a bit, a consequence of being seduced, and then … Continue reading →

Moodlight Theater

Theater 2 years ago

You can never have enough fringe theater, especially in Eugene, where spontaneity, grotesquerie and a flair for the absurd are major components of our offbeat … Continue reading →

Space Rock

Nicolas Cage confronts cosmic evil in the sci-fi/horror thriller Color Out of Space

Film 3 years ago

The following anecdote may or may not be totally accurate — I suspect it is, the source is reliable — but it doesn’t matter because … Continue reading →

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