Molly Templeton

Molly Templeton Reactor Mar 9, 2021 Seeing it on screen cracked something in me that needed cracking, especially after this last year. I hope it does the same for you. Go to Full Review Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) 93% 97%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) May 20, 2020 O'Sullivan's script knows when to press and when to pull back, and the entire cast is beautifully comfortable in director Thompson's hands. Go to Full Review Saint Frances (2019) 99% 74%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Apr 6, 2020 Lived-in, warm and life-sized... Go to Full Review Phoenix, Oregon (2019) 80% 67%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Mar 3, 2020 I'm ready for the sequel. Go to Full Review Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) 79% 78%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Dec 19, 2019 Knives Out effectively re-establishes Johnson post-The Last Jedi as a filmmaker with a lot more on his mind than just franchise pictures. Go to Full Review Knives Out (2019) 97% - -

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Jun 21, 2019 The movie isn't without its clichés... but Kaling and director Nisha Ganatra build in nuance wherever possible. Go to Full Review Late Night (2019) 80% 77%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) May 24, 2019 Tolkien has no idea how that magic happens - no idea how to show it, no idea how to infuse a film about a master of imagination with anything but the most literal of fantastic imagery. Its subject deserved better. Go to Full Review Tolkien (2019) 51% - -

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) May 2, 2019 These broad-appeal movies have to please a lot of people just enough to keep us invested, and this one gets the job done. Go to Full Review Avengers: Endgame (2019) 94% - -

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Apr 25, 2019 Hellboy wants to have it both ways, to cover familiar ground and present a new story, and it fails at both. Go to Full Review Hellboy (2019) 17% - -

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Mar 20, 2019 Captain Marvel is about Carol - it's not about saving the world, though that happens along the way. The antagonist, a brilliantly cast Ben Mendelsohn, is not the problem. Something much bigger - and subtler - is. Go to Full Review Captain Marvel (2019) 79% 45%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 Micmacs is clever, sweet, beautifully shot and disappointingly unsatisfying. Go to Full Review Micmacs (2009) 71% 74%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 [Matt] McCormick's eye for the small things that change a day, or a life, is sharp and compassionate; he finds the moments that initially seem unremarkable and follows them until they gradually transform into something greater. Go to Full Review Some Days Are Better Than Others (2010) 54% 36%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 Tucker and Dale is a surprisingly sweet movie, even when kids are chucking themselves into wood chippers or getting accidentally impaled on conveniently located sharp sticks. Go to Full Review Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) 86% 85%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 Part of the problem with Mr. Nice is that the endless sequences of [Howard] Marks and company moving, packing, hiding or hiding drugs lead to a muddled, disconnected narrative that lacks emotional impact. Go to Full Review Mr. Nice (2010) 53% 44%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 The way [Nick] Whitfield never bounds his characters' existences with biography, gives Skeletons the resonance of a short story that contains an entire life, painted on a tiny canvas but composed of vital details that tell all the important truths. Go to Full Review Skeletons (2010) 81% 71%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 Lemmy is a fascinating, slightly overlong, almost-warts-and-all documentary about Motörhead's bassist/lead singer. Go to Full Review Lemmy (2010) 86% 89%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 Cold Weather is more formally lovely than any mumblecore film I've yet seen (and I do have a modest taste for the genre, if you can really call it that). Go to Full Review Cold Weather (2010) 79% 52%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 Skateland, Anthony Burns' 1983-set coming of age story, is warm, welcoming and seen through a high gloss of nostalgia. Go to Full Review Skateland (2010) 47% 36%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 How to Train Your Dragon, an animated wonder of a film, does have often-familiar, heartwarming themes about individuality, acceptance, teamwork and prosthetics. It also has wicked awesome dragons... Go to Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2010) 99% 91%

Molly Templeton Eugene Weekly (OR) Feb 27, 2019 You don't have to be a tattoo junkie to find this story fascinating as a vivid, historical look at a subculture and the way it has developed, expanded and become commercialized. Go to Full Review - - - -