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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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Author: Rick Levin

Don’t Sell These Short

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

Film 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 →

Day Trippers

A quantum loop complicates things in the surprising romantic comedy Palm Springs

Film 3 years ago

Perhaps our ongoing national catastrophe, and all the exhaustion and despair it entails, have weakened my critical faculties, but I must say I was unexpectedly … Continue reading →

Addicted

A Seattle singer-songwriter faces the music three decades after Cobain

Books 3 years ago

The Seattle music scene of the ’90s that gave rise to a slew of now legendary bands — Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, to name … Continue reading →

The Disappearance Artist

Elizabeth Moss plays the author of 'The Lottery' in the creepy biopic Shirley

Film 3 years ago

I’ve argued here and elsewhere that, for my money, one of the most authentically feminist films of the past 25 years is Winter’s Bone, Debra … Continue reading →

Rick’s Picks

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

Film 3 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 3 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 3 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 →

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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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