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Barrennew

Children of Men is the type of important film -- dare I say vision? -- we used to expect from Terry Gilliam.

Eugene Weekly | Jason Blair | 01-11-2007 | Reviews

One Thing After Anothernew

The adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play The History Boys is not, thankfully, a British retread of Dead Poets Society, no matter how the previews may try to make it out to be one.

Eugene Weekly | Molly Templeton | 01-04-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Nicholas Hytner, The History Boys

One of the most delightfully paranoid films in years, The Good Shepherd bears the unofficial tagline "trust no one," an apt directive for a movie that's drenched in the theory and practice of intelligence.

Eugene Weekly | Jason Blair | 12-29-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd

Chicks Up Frontnew

Shut Up and Sing is precisely balanced between the personal, the musical and the political.

Eugene Weekly | Molly Templeton | 12-22-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, Shut Up and Sing

Matter Over Mindnew

Blood Diamond plays like Pearl Harbor set against the backdrop of an industry awash in blood.

Eugene Weekly | Jason Blair | 12-22-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick

Decline and Fallnew

As long as Gibson's film runs, it can't get out from under the director's continued fascination with the indignities man visits on man.

Eugene Weekly | Molly Templeton | 12-15-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson

Food for Thoughtnew

Linklater's new film is a dull compromise between a soap opera and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Eugene Weekly | Jason Blair | 12-15-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater

Serial Mumnew

For a diversion -- or a reminder that most of us are spared the burden of murderous housekeepers, no matter how well they cook -- you could do worse, but you could also do much better.

Eugene Weekly | Molly Templeton | 12-08-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Keeping Mum, Niall Johnson