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Every era has its own great end-of-a-marriage movie. This psychologically raw film, about a small-town Utah couple who agree to a trial separation, is ours.

Killing a quiet masterpiece Theres a quiet beauty, as well as a palpable undercurrent of dread, running through director Robert Machoians The Killing of Two Lovers, a major, welcomed surprise that is as emotionally powerful as its budget is small. The directors stripped-down approach – real locations, sincere improvisation – results in a poignant, haunting piece of cinema verité as we witness one mans desperate attempt to save the family thats being torn away from him. David (Clayne C...

Film Shorts // May 19-25, 2021 OPENING   Counter Column (PG-13) This Christian drama is about a drug dealer (Chris Gonzales) who tries to escape his life by joining the army. Also with Nathan-Andrew Hight, Michael Kaiser, Zane Castor, Ella Haslett, Madeleine Martinez, Diego Medina, and Lars Nielsen. (Opens Friday at Movie Tavern Hulen) The Dry (R) Eric Bana stars in this thriller as a federal agent who returns to his drought-stricken hometown for a funeral and has to reckon with a decades-old ...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While You’re Stuck at Home This Week Attend TechfestNW, watch the virtual Oregon Beer Awards and pray the Blazers win their first playoff game against the Nuggets. IMAGE: Wesley Lapointe. Updated May 18 at 10:25 PM Stream: Haley Heynderickx at Laurelthirst Pub Laurelthirst Pub, Portland’s ol...

Updated May 18 at 10:00 PM TOP PICK OF THE WEEK The Killing of Two Lovers *** Robert Machoian’s family drama knows it’s freighted with a foreboding title, and violence looms immediately over this story of a freshly separated couple. The longer it takes for that title to come true, the more we nervously rifle through its possible meanings. Even so, The Killing of Two Lovers slips into an inquisitive mode, deeper than pure tension. We witness father and Western Utah day laborer David (Cla...

After years of making features ( God Bless the Child, When She Runs) with his directing partner Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian finally decided the time had come to branch out on his own as a writer/director with his debut solo feature The Killing of Two Lovers. The film stars  Clayne Crawford as David, a man living in small-town Utah, trying desperately to keep his large family (one teenage girl played by Avery Pizzuto, and three younger boys portrayed by Machoian’s three real-life ...

Rolling Stone Menu ‘The Killing of Two Lovers’: Portrait of a Desperate Dad in Denial — With a Gun Actors Clayne Crawford and Sepideh Moafi are stellar conduits for all the pain on display in Robert Machoian’s debut feature By Robert Machoian’s debut feature, The Killing of Two Lovers, has a tough psychological knot braided right through its center, one that it doesn’t quite satisfyingly untangle — not that it exactly means to. The movie opens with a man named David (C...

This week, we tear our family apart, see things in black and white, go across the pond for some true crime, and talk about global warming.

‘Oxygen’ star Melanie Laurent masterfully delivers minimalist performance, says critic May. 13, 2021Hollywood MORE In Netflix film “Oxygen,” French actress Mélanie Laurent fights for air as a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic chamber. Photo courtesy of Netflix Critics review “Spiral,” the ninth installment in the Saw film series, which follows a rookie detective and his veteran partner as they investigate a murder case; “Those Who Wish Me...

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