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In reviewing this year’s film reviews in Eugene Weekly, we were surprised and pleased to find that we’d hit just about every big, Oscar-nominated picture — … Continue reading
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke takes grotesque glee in poking itty-bitty holes through the thin, delusional veneer of OK-ness that barely protects us from the submerged … 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
Certainly, the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock presides over the haunted atmosphere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Phantom Thread, but Hitchcock isn’t the only cinematic … Continue reading
No question Steven Spielberg is a great director. Several times during The Post, Spielberg’s new movie about The Washington Post’s decision in 1971 to publish … 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
In what has already proven something of a banner year for movies, writer/director Guillermo del Toro plunges in just under the wire with what is … 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
Take just about any film — Casablanca perhaps, or Fast Times at Ridgemont High — utterly drain it of emotion and affect, and you’d end … Continue reading