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Jamie S. Rich

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Jamie S. Rich is a novelist and comic book writer, whose work has been published by Oni Press, Dark Horse Comics, and Image Comics. He has contributed movie and music reviews to various alternative weeklies in Portland, OR, and currently writes about film for The Oregonian and DVDTalk.com. He is also a member of the Online Film Critics Society.

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Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It (2014) 46% “It's pretty outrageous, though not my cup of tea. If you've liked the Trailer Park Boys in the past, though, Don't Legalize It doesn't really mess with the formula.” – Oregonian Oct 8, 2018 Full Review Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) 100% 3.5/5 “Whether you remember the actual movie or not, "Lost Soul" is an excellent dissection of a multi-million-dollar movie gone off the rails.” – Oregonian Mar 6, 2015 Full Review 21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014) 40% 2.5/5 “The resulting tribute may be a puff piece, but it's also informative and often entertaining.” – Oregonian Feb 20, 2015 Full Review Secrets of War (2014) B- “A strong young cast and a clean presentation should make "Secrets of War" intriguing for junior cinephiles who may not yet have the same film vocabulary as their parents.” – Oregonian Feb 14, 2015 Full Review August Winds (2014) B+ “"August Winds" is a contemplative, nearly formless depiction of rural life. Mascaro regularly hangs back, adopting an unobtrusive vantage point, letting the moments form so that his characters can live out their lives.” – Oregonian Feb 13, 2015 Full Review Kauboji (2013) B “Entertaining, if not entirely memorable.” – Oregonian Feb 13, 2015 Full Review Life in a Fishbowl (2014) 80% C “It's slick, to be sure, but all the hand-wringing shakes out very little insight into the characters or their sadness, much less what lies beyond.” – Oregonian Feb 11, 2015 Full Review The Tribe (2014) 88% B+ “There are few films that compel me to cover my eyes. That "The Tribe" did so more than once says something about how deeply disturbing it is.” – Oregonian Feb 6, 2015 Full Review Jupiter Ascending (2015) 28% 2.5/5 “Jupiter Ascending is them making a big-screen, live-action bouillabaisse of all the Japanese cartoons they adore and having a grand old time.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 5, 2015 Full Review Corn Island (2014) 80% A “"Corn Island" may be small in scope, but its impact is large.” – Oregonian Feb 4, 2015 Full Review Leviathan (2014) 97% 4/5 “Zvyagintsev is more concerned with letting his audience settle into the lives of his characters than he is the more conventional happenings of the script outline.” – DVDTalk.com Jan 29, 2015 Full Review Still Alice (2014) 85% 2.5/5 “Visually, Still Alice is indistinct and bland; as writing, it's predictable and shallow...essentially a Lifetime Channel disease-of-the-week movie with a better vocabulary.” – DVDTalk.com Jan 29, 2015 Full Review It's Gonna Blow!: San Diego's Music Underground 1986-1996 (2014) 2.5/5 “Bill Perrine's oral history of the San Diego punk scene captures a particular time and place...and lays bare the whole subculture.” – Oregonian Jan 23, 2015 Full Review Sit Stay Ride: The Story of America's Sidecar Dogs (2014) 2.5/5 “What emerges is not just an uplifting film praising the bond between mammals; "Sit Stay Ride" is also stealth propaganda for rescue dogs.” – Oregonian Jan 22, 2015 Full Review Blackhat (2015) 33% 1.5/5 “You have to pity poor Chris Hemsworth. He looks like he's trying really hard and taking all of this talk of intrigue and data very seriously, but so serious that he appears silly.” – DVDTalk.com Jan 15, 2015 Full Review American Sniper (2014) 72% 2.5/5 “Eastwood handles human emotion in American Sniper with all the subtlety of a bear trap, and you'll end up wishing he'd just stop stepping in it.” – DVDTalk.com Jan 15, 2015 Full Review Exit Marrakech (2013) 3/5 “Link's lopsided structure makes the aftermath with Ben's old man a bit of a drag. Still, there's plenty to see on this journey to adulthood” – Oregonian Jan 9, 2015 Full Review Inherent Vice (2014) 74% 4/5 “Anderson's strength is in managing to be both hyper-real and surreal at the same time...Which you could say is the real satirical genius of Inherent Vice.” – DVDTalk.com Jan 7, 2015 Full Review Burroughs: The Movie (1984) 92% 3.5/5 “"Burroughs" goes deep, giving audiences an honest and real look at a genuine cult figure.” – Oregonian Jan 1, 2015 Full Review A Most Violent Year (2014) 90% 2.5/5 “J.C. Chandor is his own worst enemy here, seemingly confounded by the film's message--or perhaps too beholden to it--and unable to play dirty when it's required.” – DVDTalk.com Dec 30, 2014 Full Review Stray Dogs (2013) 86% 4/5 “Ming-liang's patient filmmaking avoids expositional narrative. In "Stray Dogs," the silent scenes say more than the sparse dialogue.” – Oregonian Dec 23, 2014 Full Review Into the Woods (2014) 70% 3/5 “It's light and airy to watch, but still somehow too much. Soulless and frenzied, and yet still kind of effortlessly entertaining.” – DVDTalk.com Dec 23, 2014 Full Review The Imitation Game (2014) 90% 3.5/5 “What I liked most about is how clearly it presented Turing's work and achievements, and how the soap opera of his personal life is given second billing.” – DVDTalk.com Dec 23, 2014 Full Review Level Five (1997) 94% 3/5 “"Level Five" plays like a lost CD-ROM rediscovered in some thrift-store bargain bin.” – Oregonian Dec 19, 2014 Full Review Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) 83% 3.5/5 “"Why Don't You Play in Hell" is violent and irreverent, packed full with crazy ideas, and about as much bloody fun as you can have in a theater right now.” – Oregonian Dec 19, 2014 Full Review
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