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Stan Hall

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Cropsey (2009) 93% EDIT “The filmmakers overreach trying to explain the meaning of a community's revulsion and rush to judgment regarding the man convicted of one of the murders, but Cropsey still gets under your skin.” – Oregonian Mar 3, 2014 Full Review You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) 85% B- EDIT “While the meta-theatrical staging is artful and impeccable and the performances (pulled from a cast of actors Resnais has used over several decades) are superb, it's not the easiest film to sit through.” – Oregonian Feb 21, 2013 Full Review Our Children (2012) 93% C+ EDIT “A drab, gloomy drama that doesn't provide any real enlightenment about why something so awful could happen.” – Oregonian Feb 14, 2013 Full Review No (2012) 93% B+ EDIT “Savvy, often brilliant ...” – Oregonian Feb 14, 2013 Full Review Beyond the Hills (2012) 91% B- EDIT “For all the arresting imagery and intensity on display here, there doesn't seem to be a point to this very long film beyond a very obvious one: showing just how terribly stupid and destructive belief can be when not underpinned by some measure of reason.” – Oregonian Feb 7, 2013 Full Review Barbara (2012) 94% B EDIT “Worth seeing ... both for Petzold's singular aesthetic and for Hoss, who as usual is a riveting presence.” – Oregonian Jan 31, 2013 Full Review 56 Up (2012) 98% A EDIT “See you again in 7 years, friends.” – Oregonian Jan 24, 2013 Full Review Rust and Bone (2012) 81% B+ EDIT “It doesn't have the same absorbing, epic qualities of "A Prophet." But Audiard's craft is still arresting, and the film hums with beauty, vigor and blood.” – Oregonian Jan 10, 2013 Full Review Smashed (2012) 83% B EDIT “A worthy addition to the addiction-movie genre.” – Oregonian Nov 8, 2012 Full Review Flight (2012) 77% C+ EDIT “While the film around him is generally cheesy and obvious, Washington is to-the-bone real.” – Oregonian Nov 1, 2012 Full Review The Paperboy (2012) 45% B- EDIT “While Daniels' work disappoints, his film is saved from disaster by uniformly terrific performances.” – Oregonian Oct 11, 2012 Full Review The Round Up (2010) 57% C+ EDIT “There are two halves to "La Rafle."” – Oregonian Aug 9, 2012 Full Review Where Do We Go Now? (2011) 52% B- EDIT “Labaki's use of abrupt tonal shifts can be jarring, but her narrative is ambitious and anything but typical.” – Oregonian Jul 12, 2012 Full Review Dr. Seuss' the Lorax (2012) 53% B- EDIT “It's a diversion worth some giggles, a few visual wows and a brief reminder to do good, but unlike the Thneed, it's not something that everyone, EVERYONE, EVERYONE needs.” – Oregonian Mar 1, 2012 Full Review Sleeping Beauty (2011) 48% C+ EDIT “Though it seems appropriate to make "Sleeping Beauty" as empty, enervating and dull as its main character, it only serves to underscore the lack of entertainment or insight.” – Oregonian Dec 22, 2011 Full Review Puss in Boots (2011) 85% B EDIT “"Puss in Boots" isn't particularly deep, nor does it take itself seriously -- it just wants to seek glory, win affection and cash in. Done, done and done.” – Oregonian Oct 27, 2011 Full Review Women Art Revolution (2010) 84% EDIT “A compelling story emerges of a feminist art movement inspired by the civil rights and anti-war movements, its loosely organized members striving for equality and recognition through guerrilla protest tactics that were in themselves art.” – Oregonian Oct 26, 2011 Full Review Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2010) 100% B+ EDIT “Filled with personal vignettes and famous-people testimonials, the film has a few too many narrative digressions, but it's a moving portrait of all-too-human personalities and the dogged optimism that keeps them going.” – Oregonian Oct 5, 2011 Full Review Straw Dogs (2011) 42% A- EDIT “Lurie's "Straw Dogs" argues we are products of our environment and learn to survive by embracing the attitudes and values around us, even when they contradict our own instincts.” – Oregonian Sep 16, 2011 Full Review The Adults in the Room (2010) B EDIT “A hard-to-classify movie that is both a dramatization of the adult-minor sexual relationship and a making-of documentary.” – Oregonian Sep 1, 2011 Full Review The First Beautiful Thing (2010) 74% B+ EDIT “The high-pitched emotions, gesticulations and occasional near-hysteria seem completely normal and genuine.” – Oregonian Jul 7, 2011 Full Review Marwencol (2010) 98% A- EDIT “"Marwencol" is inspiring but also insightful because it refuses to gloss over complex, even discomfiting questions surrounding its endearing but troubled central character.” – Oregonian Jan 6, 2011 Full Review Heartless (2009) 76% B- EDIT “"Heartless" is a bit of a jumble, especially in its last third. But it's got a distinct tone, contrasting romance and even outright sentimentality with urban dread and a few nasty visuals.” – Oregonian Dec 2, 2010 Full Review Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) 90% B+ EDIT “Like "Casino Jack," Gibney's newest concerns greed, corruption and the nature of powerful people.” – Oregonian Nov 18, 2010 Full Review Down Terrace (2009) 86% A- EDIT “Chances are you've never seen a crime family like the one in Ben Wheatley's unusual, ferociously witty dark comedy Down Terrace.” – Oregonian Oct 28, 2010 Full Review
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