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Rick Levin

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A senior staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades. He has written arts criticism for the Village Voice, the Stranger and the Seattle Weekly.

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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band (2019) 84% “Mostly, the documentary conveys the way The Band, a product of the '60s, stood both inside and outside the culture of the time.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Mar 5, 2020 Full Review The Lodge (2019) 75% “The Lodge takes everyday family dysfunction and cranks the knob to 11, and the result is a postmodern fairy tale that brilliantly churns our contemporary fears and phobias into something resembling a 21st-century Hansel and Gretel.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Color Out of Space (2019) 86% “Stanley, with tasteful precision, walks the finest tightrope between Lovecraftian grandiosity and grindhouse grit, resulting in a movie that is both really scary when it's scary and really funny when it's funny, and supremely in control of both poles.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Jan 30, 2020 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% “Cue awards season. This one's a shoo-in for the Oscars, which can't resist imitation, regurgitation and the great-man theory of bunk history.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Jan 16, 2020 Full Review Uncut Gems (2019) 91% “Uncut Gems spools out like an Old Testament parable updated for our late-capitalist collapse, a timely tale of greed, envy and idolatry which - like that chunk of mined rock - hides an eternally glimmering truth inside its jagged exterior.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Jan 9, 2020 Full Review Honey Boy (2019) 95% “I can't imagine what sort of emotional reckoning, not to mention courage and risk, was involved for LeBeouf to bare his soul - and his family's past - with such raw vulnerability, but the results are invigorating.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Dec 19, 2019 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% “For all its tragedy, the story of The Irishman is told with love - a grudging but expansive love, one that neither condemns nor praises but rather looks deep inside each character to find a strangled humanity.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Dec 6, 2019 Full Review Jojo Rabbit (2019) 80% “Beneath the madcap action, the goony characters and Wes Anderson scenery beats a big heart coursing with the stuff of life, against all odds and, often, in the throes of unspeakable crimes.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Nov 7, 2019 Full Review The Lighthouse (2019) 90% “Eggers balances the film's darkly religious and malevolently Freudian themes by portraying the visceral realities of two men scrunched together in ramshackle surroundings on an island of rain and rock.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Oct 28, 2019 Full Review Monos (2019) 93% “Monos has the feeling of being dropped with no map into the middle of a world in collapse, and the confusion on screen telegraphs a kind of psychic and social fracture.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Oct 17, 2019 Full Review The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) 95% “If our humanity is going to be restored, fostered and buttressed, it's art like this that will accomplish the deed, by reminding us all what it means to believe in one another.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Ready or Not (2019) 89% “Despite the cartoonish exterior, Ready or Not is a nasty movie, a millennial revenge fable that takes full cathartic aim at the monstrousness of our social upheaval.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Aug 29, 2019 Full Review Maiden (2018) 98% “Exaltation, not outrage, is the primary experience of this film.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Aug 22, 2019 Full Review Melvin (2009) “Channeling the spirit of Troma's low-budget horror grinders, director Henry Weintraub creates a decisively anti-John Hughes teen fantasy, full of high-concept raunch and low-blow delight.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Aug 22, 2019 Full Review Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) 86% “Tarantino has upped his game with this one, and in the process revealed the mature sensibility of a filmmaker capable of looking backward without simply cannibalizing his own achievements and becoming a self-parody.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Aug 1, 2019 Full Review Midsommar (2019) 83% “As in Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," Aster hints that the price of paradise is not dreaming; it is blood.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Jul 3, 2019 Full Review Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) 96% “Directed by Pamela B. Green, this documentary is at once a love letter to and a furious argument for the lasting legacy and inarguable genius of Guy-Blaché.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Jun 27, 2019 Full Review Booksmart (2019) 96% “Wilde humanizes this much maligned but rarely understood generation, giving it a voice that is properly rapturous, chaotic and, yes, dignified.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) May 30, 2019 Full Review Rafiki (2018) 94% “Director Wanuri Kahiu deftly balances vibrant, expansive scenes of Kenyan street life with more-intimate peeks into the relationship between Kena and Ziki, evoking a very specific sense of time and place that only heightens the story's emotional impact.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) May 9, 2019 Full Review High Life (2018) 83% “Denis' film defies all categorization: If it's a sci-fi movie, so is Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, and if it's horror, so is David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Apr 29, 2019 Full Review Us (2019) 93% “Peele proves that he's not going to be content resting on his laurels, and that he's fearless and talented enough to hold a mirror up to our own worst selves - literally, it turns out.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Dragged Across Concrete (2018) 76% “Dark, violent and, at times, wickedly funny, Zahler's film harkens to the golden era of independent film, though it's hardly an exercise in simple nostalgia.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Mar 22, 2019 Full Review 2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Live Action (2019) 82% “This year's Oscar nominees represent a strong and diverse sampling of what can be achieved in a single reel, as it were.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 22, 2019 Full Review Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) 61% “Certainly there's an element of vengeance, albeit otherworldly, in Velvet Buzzsaw, a strange and delightful film that is equal parts social satire and B-grade supernatural splatter-fest.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 18, 2019 Full Review If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) 95% “This is a disservice, ultimately, to James Baldwin, who is not only one of America's greatest writers but also one of its most complex, insightful, downright dangerous explicators of the "race problem" in this country.” – Eugene Weekly (OR) Jan 31, 2019 Full Review
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