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Dom Sinacola

Portland
As seen in: Paste, Portland Mercury, The Werner Herzblog, Apple Podcasts, Red Bull, Substack, Letterboxd, The Stranger, Willamette Week, Slant Magazine, Kill Screen, FLOOD Magazine, Ever Out Portland
movie critic: @portlandmercury; contributor: @pastemagazine; former editor: @cmgzine; I have a Werner Herzog blog: wernerherzblog.substack.com/
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A Blue Heron Under the Influence

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By Dom Sinacola
| Portland Mercury
Canadian writer-director Sophy Romvari’s debut feature, the luminous Blue Heron, is revelatory—even as it intentionally offers no revelations. If you saw Romvari’s 2020 short film Still Processing (all her shorts are on the Criterion Channel), you’ve observed the director’s careful application of context, bringing the audience to understand the extent of her family’s grief without divulging many details. Grief, after all, fits no narrative, no timeline with a clear beginning and end.
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The Christophers Is Another Small Masterwork by Steven Soderbergh

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By Dom Sinacola
| Portland Mercury
Steven Soderbergh has directed 11 features since 2017—which was the year blue collar caper Logan Lucky sprung the director from a self-imposed retirement. This bountiful run includes shot-in-secret-on-an-iPhone thriller Unsane (2018), thoughtful exotic dancer threequel Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023), bone-shaking ghost story Presence (2024), bone-dry spy story Black Bag (2025), and now The Christophers, a lilting two-hander about aging and art that’s out in theaters this week.
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Movies & TV Archives

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By Suzette Smith, Dom Sinacola, HR Smith
| Portland Mercury
Posted inMovies & TV Portland Panorama’s schedule of movies, showcases, and virtual reality immersions feels like falling down a wiki rabbit hole. You came to see who’s playing live at the screening of music videos from the Pacific Northwest at Mississippi Studios, and now you’re getting excited about a bunch of shorts by Black animators at Cinema 21.
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