Michelle Williams

Film Review: “Showing Up” — A Gentle Portrait of a Portland Artist

April 13, 2023
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Showing Up offers a much different kind of artist and art scene than we’re used to seeing in film.

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Film Review: “After the Wedding” — An American Telenovela

August 12, 2019
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After the Wedding never finds its emotional rhythm; melodramatic confrontations about betrayals and past choices lurch clunkily along.

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Film Review: “Certain Women” — Mysteries of the Ordinary

October 30, 2016
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Kelly Reichardt’s cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life’s daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.

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Recent Posts

Film Anniversary: From Punchline to Plausibility — The Fifty-Year Transformation of “Soylent Green”
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