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Shawn Levy

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Mission: Impossible (1996) 65% “As a hybrid of a star vehicle and a De Palma film, it sacrifices too much of each sort of movie to be fully satisfying as either.” – Oregonian May 6, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% 3/4 “An airtight, if occasionally frustrating, final act. It may not be able to stand on its own, but for the third in a series it's pretty darn good.” – Oregonian Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% A- “...as a technical achievement, it is a heroic leap forward into a new age of moviemaking; it's a gorgeous work, the technique of which will change the way films are made henceforth.” – Oregonian Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% B+ “Tarzan is a vigorous, satisfying film -- exorbitant in the visuals and in the central characterization, even if flat in the music and storytelling. ” – Oregonian Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mulan (1998) 92% 2.5/4 “Mulan, Disney's latest, feels like a transitional film, struggling gamely against the studio's tiring formula yet ultimately succumbing to it. The film is lovely to look at and blessedly reserved in its singing, but it doesn't make a full enough break.” – Oregonian Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Amélie (2001) 90% “Jeunet films it all breathlessly and brightly, applying his astonishing visual gifts to opening hidden corners of the world rather than, as in the past, concocting delicious banquets of the macabre.” – Oregonian Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “Alien can still make at least one fortysomething filmgoer squirm in his seat like a baby.” – Oregonian Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% “If you thought Boogie Nights blew it in its final third, you ain't seen nothing yet. Magnolia, a far better film in the initial going (which is saying something), goes far, far worse, which is a crying shame.” – Oregonian Jul 14, 2023 Full Review The Matrix (1999) 83% 3.5/4 “The Matrix slams you back in your chair, pops open your eyes and leaves your jaw hanging slack in amazement. Though it stumbles occasionally into ponderous exposition and some unintentional giggles, it's a smashing entertainment.” – Oregonian Jul 12, 2023 Full Review Real Steel (2011) 60% “All things considered, it is a well-wrought piece of entertainment, confidently paced, although its necessary subplots are little more than dutiful filler sandwiched between fight sequences.” – New York Times Nov 6, 2018 Full Review The Darjeeling Limited (2007) 69% B “By now, you know exactly what to expect, which is both good and bad. To my mind, Anderson reached the acme of this formula in the first go, in Tenenbaums, and has now replicated it twice, evoking smaller pleasures each time.” – Oregonian Mar 12, 2014 Full Review The King's Speech (2010) 94% A “It's a fine, absorbing work, built with brilliance and without excessive showiness or flash. It feels, in fact, like a classic virtually upon its arrival.” – Oregonian Feb 16, 2013 Full Review The Master (2012) 85% B+ “Anderson, god love him, seems determined to make the "Great American Film." "The Master" isn't it, but you come away from it with the sense that may be on the right path.” – Oregonian Sep 21, 2012 Full Review Compliance (2012) 89% B “There's a humanity here, even for the restaurant manager. But that still doesn't make "Compliance" easy to ingest.” – Oregonian Sep 21, 2012 Full Review Hello I Must Be Going (2012) 75% C+ “The script's contrivances and the director's lax handling aren't enough to hold you.” – Oregonian Sep 21, 2012 Full Review Arbitrage (2012) 87% B “"Arbitrage" is a mirror on the audience, making us realize that we're complicit, if only vicariously, in some crimes which we ought to deplore.” – Oregonian Sep 13, 2012 Full Review Samsara (2011) 76% B “A thoughtful and profoundly gorgeous film in which the works of humanity are celebrated and questioned, the colossal scale of nature is revealed, the cruelties and grotesqueries of life are laid bare.” – Oregonian Sep 6, 2012 Full Review The Ambassador (2011) 71% B “There's a touch of whimsy to his misadventures, but the malfeasance he uncovers -- often using hidden cameras and microphones -- is anything but a joke.” – Oregonian Sep 6, 2012 Full Review The Words (2012) 24% D “A nitwit story about a nitwit author who has written a nitwit novel about a nitwit author who has published a nitwit novel which, in fact, he has stolen wholecloth from another writer ...” – Oregonian Sep 6, 2012 Full Review Red Hook Summer (2012) 57% C+ “Lee is, as ever, a gifted image-maker, but his storytelling has gotten so lax over time as to barely register.” – Oregonian Sep 6, 2012 Full Review Killer Joe (2011) 80% B+ “It is so focused on the depravity at its heart that watching it is like subjecting yourself to a nightmare that sucks the air slowly from your lungs.” – Oregonian Aug 31, 2012 Full Review Robot & Frank (2012) 87% B+ “The chief spectacle here -- and it's a good one -- is Langella in gruff, curdled mode, an underappreciated master actor slipping seamlessly into a bespoke role.” – Oregonian Aug 30, 2012 Full Review Oslo, August 31st (2011) 97% B+ “In a single day, through a single pair of eyes, Trier and Lie give us an emblem for the world.” – Oregonian Aug 30, 2012 Full Review The Imposter (2012) 95% B “It's an astounding story, truly, and Bourdin is the most chillingly sympathetic sociopath: frank, remorseless, matter-of-fact.” – Oregonian Aug 24, 2012 Full Review 2 Days in New York (2012) 66% B “It's a predictable sort of humor, but it's played with intelligence, wit, charm and, blissfully, very little pretense.” – Oregonian Aug 24, 2012 Full Review
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