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Chance Solem-Pfeifer

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Maria (2024) 75% EDIT “Larraín and screenwriter Steven Knight feel equal parts too comfortable and too distracted, fixating on film stock fascinations and screenwriting tricks about miscarriages and ex-lover’s deaths that answer questions we didn’t have. ” – Willamette Week Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% EDIT “There’s no doubt it’s bracing and a deeply felt homage to EDM as modern, post-lingual folk music. But Sirāt is at war with itself, and its pushiest, least interesting instincts rule the day. R. ” – Willamette Week Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Daughters of the Dust (1991) 94% EDIT “Daughters of the Dust is a fascinating combination of novelistic sensibilities and nonlinear poetry.” – Willamette Week Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Out of the Blue (1980) 95% EDIT “In true New Hollywood fashion, Out of the Blue’s bleak human drama hits all the harder because it prioritizes naturalism. ” – Willamette Week Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Love & Basketball (2000) 86% EDIT “It’s well observed, fiery, sweet, melancholy, and one of the only movies to consider how athletes’ attachment to sports changes across the full arc of their lives.” – Willamette Week Feb 13, 2026 Full Review The Lathe of Heaven (1980) EDIT “The vision is strangely convincing. This adaptation employs precious few exterior shots—and a lot of rain outside dark windows—to cultivate both empty grandeur and claustrophobia.” – Willamette Week Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Alma & the Wolf (2025) EDIT “The muddled ambition to metaphorize the characters’ psychic damage into monsters but then literalize all the results into a thuddingly plotted mystery strands us miles away from the movie’s greatest strength: a well-lit wolf puppet haunting the beach. ” – Willamette Week Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) 92% EDIT “Denzel Washington’s wildly underrated turn as a 1950s Los Angeles sleuth finds the two-time Oscar winner operating at peak charisma and weaving through a morass of noirisms—gangsters, political conspiracies, femmes fatales.” – Willamette Week Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Cronos (1993) 88% EDIT “[It's] a pleasure to see del Toro work out his early ambitions in a world he didn’t design.” – Willamette Week Jan 22, 2026 Full Review 12 Monkeys (1995) 88% EDIT “[12 Monkeys] will it not make you feel better about pretty much anything. But it’s a feast for thought.” – Willamette Week Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Swan Song (2021) 92% EDIT “Every gesture captivates: Pat’s labored but proud gait on the roadside, the roughly 100 More cigarettes he ignites, Kier’s impossibly watery stare washing over every other character’s face.” – Willamette Week Jan 10, 2026 Full Review Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) 86% EDIT “For being such a cool movie, there is something shockingly lame and relatable about a vampire just sinking down the rabbit hole of his pet interests, collecting rare guitars, and remixing his own compositions into oblivion. ” – Willamette Week Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) 55% EDIT “It really is the movie’s fearlessly exploitive emotional and physical violence that cements its all-time placement in the Evil Santa canon.” – Willamette Week Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Big Trouble in Little China (1986) 71% EDIT “Directed by John Carpenter during one of the great filmmaking hot streaks of all time, Big Trouble is a rarely seen kind of action comedy—neither spoof nor satire and containing not a single moment of genuine sentiment. ” – Willamette Week Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% EDIT “Not only is the Special Edition the best way to watch The Abyss, but also the most authoritative. ” – Willamette Week Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 94% EDIT “Given the scope, Bentley could so easily crank up the epic melodrama, but the best feature of Train Dreams is its commitment to serving Johnson’s prose through slippery understatement.” – Willamette Week Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Carol (2015) 94% EDIT “Haynes deserves extra credit for turning Blanchett’s acting superpower—resting sphinx face—into the totemic image and attitude of an entire movie.” – Willamette Week Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) 98% EDIT “All the little unassailable touches of Miyazaki’s world-building enrich the experience.” – Willamette Week Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Basket Case (1982) 78% EDIT “Like most other Henenlotter movies, Basket Case is beloved by horror heads in the know for its scrappy execution, darkly comedic exploitation, and gonzo manifestation of otherwise thought-provoking themes. ” – Willamette Week Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Death Wish 3 (1985) 14% EDIT “Its unintentional hilarity and ham-handed directing could never be replicated.” – Willamette Week Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Beyond (1981) 75% EDIT “One of the precious few spaghetti Southern gothics, The Beyond is Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci at his gory, hypnotic best. ” – Willamette Week Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 89% EDIT “Re-Animator expertly rides the line between genuinely disturbing and darkly comedic. With respect to its mischievous score and gonzo practical effects, most of that tonal tightrope-walking is embodied in horror icon Jeffrey Combs’ breakout performance. ” – Willamette Week Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Cure (1997) 94% EDIT “Cure is a master class in using eminently available filmmaking techniques to revolutionize the oldest cop story in the book.” – Willamette Week Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Tremors (1990) 89% EDIT “Tremors is a great reminder that even the larkiest genre movies can be craft-rich.” – Willamette Week Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Dogtooth (2009) 94% EDIT “This is lo-fi unhinged Lanthimos, but like all his movies, Dogtooth exists somewhere between allegory and comedic exaggeration.” – Willamette Week Sep 24, 2025 Full Review
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