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Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Chance Solem-Pfeifer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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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) 76% 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) 95% 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) 88% 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 Diner (1982) 92% EDIT “Never did the decade of peak “men were men” get a clearer retroactive treatment of men being overgrown boys than Barry Levinson’s Diner.” – Willamette Week Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Submarine (2010) 88% EDIT “The formative moments of Oliver’s coming of age fly past in a nearly 90-minute montage of memories, hypotheticals, and swooping handheld cinematography.” – Willamette Week Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Thirst (2009) 81% EDIT “In Park’s hands, the vampire’s sensuous power is immediately an ironic torment. ” – Willamette Week Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Night of the Juggler (1980) 94% EDIT “There’s an attempted witness interrogation through a polygonal glass peepshow box in Times Square so dizzying it’s worth the price of admission alone.” – Willamette Week Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Notting Hill (1999) 84% EDIT “When you watch Notting Hill now 26 years after its release, what’s distinct from the subgenre’s 21st-century downturn is how the film’s patient editing and lived-in directing sell writer Richard Curtis’ fantastical premise.” – Willamette Week Aug 18, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 84% EDIT “Irish indie director Lorcan Finnegan produces impressive grandeur from the film’s single location. Meanwhile, writer Thomas Martin overdoes it by expanding the story from man versus gang to man versus generational trauma and possible schizophrenia. ” – Willamette Week May 21, 2025 Full Review Josie and the Pussycats (2001) 54% EDIT “The dual performances by Alan Cumming and Parker Posey as music-industry archvillains are the comedic core of the movie. ” – Willamette Week May 15, 2025 Full Review Metropolitan (1990) 94% EDIT “Metropolitan is impossibly funny, equal parts playful and contemptuous.” – Willamette Week May 1, 2025 Full Review
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