Willamette Week

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week 6 days ago Denis’ critical eye for colonialism and masculinity takes a scalpel to the soldiers’ day-to-day drudgery. Go to Full Review Beau travail (1999) 88% 77%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Oct 28, 2026 Trigger warning for rampant dog murder, shockingly good tail-growing effects, and the wild highs and lows of sibling connection. Go to Full Review Ginger Snaps (2000) 92% 78%

Laura Wheatman Hill Willamette Week Oct 28, 2026 In addition to the impressive technical feat of the film, it’s a successful adaptation of Meloy’s 541-page epic. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 98% - -

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Oct 28, 2026 Lon Chaney’s Phantom is still arresting by today’s standards because it dares to be genuinely upsetting. Go to Full Review The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 91% 84%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Oct 15, 2026 If you changed the title and said this was a dark-hearted druid slasher movie made by a guy (writer-director Tommy Lee Wallace) who worshiped John Carpenter, it wouldn’t have taken 30 years to reclaim. Go to Full Review Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) 51% 28%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Oct 9, 2026 The lasting star of this 63-year-old film is the sound design. Go to Full Review The Haunting (1963) 89% 75%

Morgan Shaunette Willamette Week Sep 30, 2026 The Fly brought the creature feature into ’80s modernity with a sharp script, up-and-coming stars, and state-of-the-art, stomach-churning visual effects. Go to Full Review The Fly (1986) 82% 83%

Morgan Shaunette Willamette Week Sep 24, 2026 Diabolique remains a classic for a reason: a heart-stopping thrill ride bound to leave you terrified, shocked and amazed. Go to Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% 93%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Sep 18, 2026 Like so many Miyazaki films, Ponyo embraces folklore without compromising the director’s stubbornly idiosyncratic sensibility. Go to Full Review Ponyo (2008) 91% 83%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Sep 10, 2026 By Hook is so steeped in charming masculinity, urban survival and crime conventions that it could just as well be pure 1955 Americana, only starring two gender-nonconforming actors and awash in the hyper-immediate digital grain of its mini DV camera. Go to Full Review By Hook or by Crook (2001) 76% 77%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Sep 3, 2026 As nightclub singer Sally Bowles, Minnelli flashes every dimension you could ask for: grandeur, vulnerability, sass, longing, ugly hope and beautiful selfishness. Go to Full Review Cabaret (1972) 91% 87%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Aug 21, 2026 City Lights delivers all the Charlie Chaplin hallmarks: the duck walk, bowler hat, toothbrush ’stache and pratfalls as gymnastic high art. Go to Full Review City Lights (1931) 95% 96%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Aug 17, 2026 A tenderhearted character study about an odd couple in an odd place. Go to Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% 77%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Aug 7, 2026 It’s anthropologically fascinating (in large part because it was filmed at Folsom), intensely acted, and a superlative artifact of an era when a legendary Hollywood career could be born on Sunday night on ABC. Go to Full Review The Jericho Mile (1979) - - 78%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Jul 25, 2026 Between director Jacques Tourneur’s facility with shadows and writer Daniel Mainwaring’s way with sad flirtations, Mitchum can’t miss as the lovesick antihero. Go to Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 88% 92%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Jul 16, 2026 Prince of Darkness is best remembered as a Carpenter B-side, but it has both quintessential Carpenterisms and some fascinating idiosyncrasies. Go to Full Review Prince of Darkness (1987) 61% 61%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Jul 9, 2026 The stylistic calling card of setting jousting matches to Thin Lizzy and Queen is as silly as it is endearing. Go to Full Review A Knight's Tale (2001) 59% 71%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Jul 1, 2026 To say “nothing is as it seems” would be accurate but trite. The deeper power of The Third Man is more like “nothing is as it was.” Go to Full Review The Third Man (1949) 99% 93%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Jun 26, 2026 Set up as a near-Gothic period piece, The Handmaiden manages to keep the audience on a string while also employing Park’s favorite tension-busting trick: infallible characters making an unbelievable mess. Go to Full Review The Handmaiden (2016) 96% 91%

Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Jun 18, 2026 What follows is a con-man movie that sticks in your guts. Not because of the take or the twists, but rather its pitch-black read on these characters and what they can’t help but reveal through all their trickery. Go to Full Review House of Games (1987) 94% 79%