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Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.

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Day Trippers

A quantum loop complicates things in the surprising romantic comedy Palm Springs

Film 8 months ago

Perhaps our ongoing national catastrophe, and all the exhaustion and despair it entails, have weakened my critical faculties, but I must say I was unexpectedly … Continue reading →

Addicted

A Seattle singer-songwriter faces the music three decades after Cobain

Books 8 months ago

The Seattle music scene of the ’90s that gave rise to a slew of now legendary bands — Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, to name … Continue reading →

The Disappearance Artist

Elizabeth Moss plays the author of 'The Lottery' in the creepy biopic Shirley

Film 8 months ago

I’ve argued here and elsewhere that, for my money, one of the most authentically feminist films of the past 25 years is Winter’s Bone, Debra … Continue reading →

Rick’s Picks

EW’s long-time film critic shares his streaming favorites

Film 9 months ago

There are few modern television series I admire more than Netflix’s Ozark, an urban-to-rural family crime drama whose deep dive into moral decay would make … Continue reading →

Killer Style

A hollow man forges a new identity in the French horror comedy Deerskin

Film 9 months ago

A ghastly emptiness lies at the center of Deerskin, the latest film by French director Quentin Dupieux. That emptiness signals not fillable blank space but a … Continue reading →

No Virgin Mary

Writer/actor Kelly O'Sullivan shines as one mess of a nanny in Saint Frances

Film 10 months ago

We’ve been seeing a lot of this in cinema lately: A young or at least youngish woman, a millennial or cusping thereabouts, intelligent but adrift, … Continue reading →

Who You Gonna Ball?

A pair of ghostbusters get busy in Irish horror comedy Extra Ordinary

Film 11 months ago

Irish humor strikes my ingrained American sensibilities in a strange way, and I like it. Whereas British comedy is mannered even in its absurdity (see … Continue reading →

Housekeeping

A pair of 50-something women negotiate a strange cohabitation in OCT’s comedy The Roommate

Theater 12 months ago

For nearly 20 years now, I’ve held a regular gig reviewing local theater productions, first in Seattle and then here in Eugene. What began as … Continue reading →

The Weight

Robbie Robertson tells his story of The Band in Once Were Brothers

Film 12 months ago
Photo by Elliott Landy

My vote for greatest American rock band of all time tends to hop back and forth. Most of the time, I cast the ballot for … Continue reading →

Hotel Massachusetts

A bereaved family takes the winter trip to hell in The Lodge

Film 1 year ago

Odd, offhanded things people say can stick in your head forever, and there’s no real accounting for why. Years ago, while we were both working … Continue reading →

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Rick Levin

Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.

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