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Going in Style
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fine, sufficiently funny remake of the long-forgotten 1979 comedy starring George Burns about three geriatrics who rob a bank.
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Ping Pong
3AW
Jim Schembri
Terrific, uplifting, often raw and frequently funny...If the film has a theme, it's how the ageing process can often afflict the body far more than it does the mind.
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
3AW
Jim Schembri
it's formulaic and predictable, just like so many of Hallstrom's romantic films...and it's done with the conviction and quality performances needed to sell what is essentially a perfectly prepared bowl of romantic mush.
3/5
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Mother's Day
3AW
Jim Schembri
Another pleasant, holiday themed, totally innocuous, multi-story family friendly comedy by veteran director Garry Marshall. The one big difference here, though, is that this film has been hated upon so much you'd think it was neo-Nazi propaganda.
2.5/5
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Submergence
3AW
Jim Schembri
Patience is a quality you need to endure a lot of Wim Wenders' work, and sometimes the payoffs have been terrible. Here, though, is one of his more inclusive and absorbing works that rewards the attention he demands.
3/5
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Ride Along
3AW
Jim Schembri
There are a few laughs, but not enough.
2/5
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Robin Hood
3AW
Jim Schembri
The latest stab at one of England's favourite folk heroes is a deliciously punked out, hyped up, super-charged action flick...Hook into the crazy swing of the film and you're in for a sweet ride.
3.5/5
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Widows
3AW
Jim Schembri
Thanks to some extremely well-staged action sequences and tight, serious direction by Steve McQueen, Widows delivers a top-shelf, twist-filled femme-noir crime thriller spiced by the ignition of toxic masculinity and toxic femininity colliding.
3.5/5
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The Look of Silence
3AW
Jim Schembri
This sequel [to The Art of Killing] features much more soul-pricking confrontation and demands from the aging perpetrators that questions stop being asked.
4/5
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Anomalisa
3AW
Jim Schembri
Serious lovers of animation won't forgive themselves if they miss this remarkable, absorbing film.
4/5
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The Maze Runner
3AW
Jim Schembri
The Maze Runner is a terrific mystery adventure that employs that wonderful, age-old technique of putting you at one with the characters.
3/5
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Clouds of Sils Maria
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sensitively directed by Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep; Clean), the film is richly nuanced and full of poignant moments, a showcase of fine acting from three very different actresses.
3/5
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Beautiful Creatures
3AW
Jim Schembri
Any hope of tapping into the Twilight vibe is pretty much neutered by the film's haphazard storyline, stuttering pace and inordinate length.
1/5
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Red Dog: True Blue
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's pleasant, fun, funny and, of course, looks absolutely beautiful. The one thing you've got to say about the Australian Outback: it gives filmmakers great sky.
3/5
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47 Ronin
3AW
Jim Schembri
Keanu Reeves struggles to bring any life to this lugubrious, gloomily lit mythical tale about a group of outcast samurai soldiers. Slower than the queue at a ticket machine, it's only when the swords finally start swinging that the film really kicks in.
2/5
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
3AW
Jim Schembri
Hitchcock's legendary wit is on show, as is the enduring influence of his work on subsequent filmmakers.
3/5
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The Little Death
3AW
Jim Schembri
In lesser hands The Little Death could easily have been a misguided mess, yet [writer/director] Lawson shows an uncanny sureness of touch with difficult scenes and is able to toggle the tone from story to story.
3.5/5
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Truth
3AW
Jim Schembri
Briskly paced, the film unfolds as a captivating fiasco about presumption, bias, hidden agendas and the elasticity of journalistic ethics.
4/5
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Ghost in the Shell
3AW
Jim Schembri
Clad in a series of unforgiving, form-fitting futuristic outfits, Scarlett Johansson plays "The Major", the latest in a long line of sexy female cyborgs, in this slick, action-stuffed, high-gloss remake of the cult classic 1995 anime feature.
3/5
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A Quiet Place
3AW
Jim Schembri
[A] terrific, white-knuckle monster thriller...director John Krasinski does an excellent job taking an old spook movie convention - using silence to build tension - and pushing it to a nerve-jangling new extreme.
3.5/5
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52 Tuesdays
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sensitively directed by Sophie Hyde, this quietly extraordinary film is brave in the best sense...the story side-steps any polemic distractions about prejudice or gender politics to focus on the fraught relationship between child and parent.
3/5
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Lucy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Heaven forbid, but could it be possible that the French are now making better action films than the Americans? It appears so, if Lucy is any guide.
3.5/5
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Hidden Figures
3AW
Jim Schembri
Directed with Oscar-baiting flourish by Theodore Melfi, Hidden Figures works well as a well-meaning, corrective history lesson designed to honour the talented women who worked away in historical silence while castigating the system that oppressed them.
3.5/5
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Blockers
3AW
Jim Schembri
Formulaic, knockabout comedies like Blockers need to be executed with precision and conviction...and director Kay Cannon deserves major backslaps for managing to implant a sincere heart amidst all the raunch and mayhem.
3/5
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Colossal
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a bizarre concept that's well-handled, blending sci-fi with a touch of message making about the beasts we all carry inside us, and how hard they can be to tame.
3/5
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Wayne
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film deftly touches on Australia's cultural cringe as Gardner admits how his class made him feel unworthy of the accolades he had earned.
3/5
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3AW
Jim Schembri
Yet another super-sized serving of superhero cinematic sponge cake... this follow-up really feels like bloated franchise filler.
2/5
5
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Thor: The Dark World
3AW
Jim Schembri
Can you believe it's been several weeks since the last blockbuster comic book super-hero movie? How did we survive so long? Fortunately, Thor 2 has arrived to keep us from going into withdrawal.
3/5
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Maria By Callas
3AW
Jim Schembri
While the unconventional choice to tell the Callas story through her words has a certain intimate appeal and style it, of course, cuts off other perspectives, opinions and versions of her story.
2.5/5
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Kill Your Darlings
3AW
Jim Schembri
The period recreation is impressive, but the tone is non-descript, despite the strong efforts from an obviously dedicated cast. No question, though, that Beat fans will love it a lot more than they did Walter Salles' inert On The Road.
2.5/5
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Frances Ha
3AW
Jim Schembri
Its flighty quarter-life crisis theme [will be] familiar to anyone who's seen five minutes of Girls.
3/5
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Gloria Bell
3AW
Jim Schembri
Anchored by Julianne Moore's deeply felt performance of a flawed woman, Gloria Bell has the feel of those landmark movies made in the 1970s that explored the lives of women who pushed back against stereotypes and grappled for their own sense of identity.
3.5/5
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
3AW
Jim Schembri
As mass-market confection, Nutcracker certainly works well enough, though its delights definitely hark more from style rather than story.
3/5
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Safety Not Guaranteed
3AW
Jim Schembri
A small, richly nuanced, engaging piece of romantic fluff with a decent sci-fi tinge that doesn't overplay its quirkiness.
3/5
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Den of Thieves
3AW
Jim Schembri
With barely a quiet moment anywhere and an above-average plot, this lark is a highly entertaining guy movie. Whether females will enjoy it, however, will depend on their tolerance for a two-hour crime movie that has but a handful of women in it.
3/5
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Sing
3AW
Jim Schembri
Anybody who doesn't find Sing a wall-to-wall delight should check for a pulse...a gloriously nutty, breathlessly paced, funny, uplifting musical that takes hold of you in the first few minutes and doesn't let go.
4.5/5
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The Wizard of Oz
3AW
Jim Schembri
The Wizard of Oz is the cinematic equivalent of high-end wine, in that it gets better with age. The difference is that while wine must remain unopened to increase in value, the film positively thrives on it being tasted and shared over and over and over.
5/5
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Fury
3AW
Jim Schembri
For the most part, Fury is a grittily realistic, punishing, often compelling film about the realities of war and what it can do to the souls of ordinary men...The only real letdown is the finale.
3.5/5
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Love Is All You Need
3AW
Jim Schembri
Finely balanced and occasionally touching, this is the most joyous film by Danish director Susanne Bier, and a welcome, perhaps overdue, shift of gear.
3/5
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Far from Men
3AW
Jim Schembri
Speaking fluent French, Viggo Mortensen again proves what a fine actor he is outside of Middle-earth.
3/5
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The Gallows
3AW
Jim Schembri
More low-budget, found-footage horror shenanigans as a clutch of high schoolers trapped inside a haunted theatre go running around, screaming. There's a lot of shaky-cam and green night vision, but not much in the way of originality, style or real scares.
2/5
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The Wife
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film, directed with a fine eye for irony by Swedish filmmaker Bjorn Runge, is a marvelous performance showcase for Pryce and Close, two veterans whose around-the-block credentials shine brightest in the film's quieter moments.
3/5
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American Assassin
3AW
Jim Schembri
After Atomic Blonde and The Hitman's Assassin, this terrifically paced, proficiently mounted outing is our third generous serving of high-quality action in rapid succession.
3.5/5
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Ender's Game
3AW
Jim Schembri
Asa Butterfield stars opposite a grumblebum Harrison Ford in an expensive, elaborately mounted, tedious film with one huge problem - it has no second act. You literally get to the end of the film and think: "Hang on. That's it?"
1/5
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What Men Want
3AW
Jim Schembri
A gloriously over-the-top comic performance by Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures; Benjamin Button) is the gleaming jewel in this winning, extremely funny comedy about glass-ceiling politics, out-of-control ambition and love.
3.5/5
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Ghostbusters
3AW
Jim Schembri
All up it's a so-so comedy offering, with just enough entertainment value to not make you wish you'd waited for the stream or DVD.
2.5/5
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Eye In The Sky
3AW
Jim Schembri
Outstanding, absorbing film about the nature of 21st century warfare.
4/5
5
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The Nice Guys
3AW
Jim Schembri
Major props must go to the film's production team for recreating the sounds & looks of the 1970s with such matter-of-fact precision...Some of the suburban street scenes look so authentic it's as though they were filmed with the aid of a time machine.
3.5/5
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Scary Movie 5
3AW
Jim Schembri
Enough. Please.
2/5
5
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Titanic
3AW
Jim Schembri
Jack and Rose actually cause the Titanic to hit the iceberg. Watch closely.
5/5
5
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The Mummy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Sufficiently entertaining multiplex fodder, proficiently executed on a big scale with some neat signature scenes and enough loud noises to keep you awake.
3/5
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Trolls
3AW
Jim Schembri
The five year olds for whom this ghastly piece of post-content confection is intended are unlikely to see beyond the bright colours, fast movement and hit song covers to realise it has one of the stupidest story set-ups ever to appear in a kids' film.
1.5/5
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Cloudburst
3AW
Jim Schembri
A rough-edged Olympia Dukakis steals much of this comedy road movie about two ageing lesbians who go to Canada to get married. Enjoyable, but unremarkable.
2.5/5
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The Big Wedding
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's not a bad film by any means, and there is some fizz seeing Sarandon, Keaton and De Niro bounce off each other, verbally and physically. Yet the film seems stuck in first gear, seemingly reluctant to dial up its screwball potential.
2.5/5
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Dumb and Dumber To
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is almost exactly as funny as the original, and that's some achievement. It might say more about commerce than creativity, but that's comedy in the 21st century for you.
3/5
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Equalizer 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
A solid, value-driven action thriller...The magnificently tense finale, which takes place in an evacuated coastal town about to be torn apart by a hurricane has so many religious references it's hard to keep count.
4/5
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Land of Mine (Under Sandet)
3AW
Jim Schembri
An affecting film highlighting a little-known story, with the opening reels showing just how strong the impulse for retribution was against the Nazis.
3/5
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A Most Wanted Man
3AW
Jim Schembri
A measured, intelligent film that doesn't overplay its topicality or its anti-terrorist theme. As a showcase for Philip Seymour Hoffman's mastery of nuance, A Most Wanted Man also serves as a tribute to a singular talent taken far too early
3.5/5
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Strangerland
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Kim Farrant is big on mood but not on movement, producing yet another Australian film where you come out humming the cinematography because of the now-standard third act issues that should have stopping dogging Australian films 10 years ago.
2/5
5
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Quartet
3AW
Jim Schembri
With an obvious love for British gardens and heritage-protected interiors, first-time director Dustin Hoffman...delivers a congenial, easy-to-like comedy-drama.
3/5
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Phantom Thread
3AW
Jim Schembri
Cinematically rich and dramatically magnetic...[A] film that often looks like a moving work of art, as though perfectly composed still life images have been brought to shimmering life.
4/5
5
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The Counselor
3AW
Jim Schembri
With no apparent interest in restraint, director Ridley Scott provides a glossily sordid scenic tour of the high-end Mexican drug trade...high production values, bloodshed and drug dealing don't add up to much more than an uninvolving time killer.
2/5
5
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Yesterday
3AW
Jim Schembri
The powerhouse duo of director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and rom-com screenwriting legend Richard Curtis (Love, Actually; Four Weddings, etc) deliver unto the world an extremely likeable, feather-light fable about music, love and plagiarism.
3/5
5
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The Dead Don't Die
3AW
Jim Schembri
The prospect of a zombie apocalypse film by veteran arthouse filmmaker Jim Jarmusch sounds almost too enticing. Regrettably, the execution just doesn't do justice to the concept.
2/5
5
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Joker
3AW
Jim Schembri
As violent and as thematically dark as it often is, the film has moments of sheer brilliance and real bravery, especially when it comes to seeing the world from the point of view of somebody who is clearly deranged.
4.5/5
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Planes: Fire And Rescue
3AW
Jim Schembri
Not only are the cliches more deftly packaged this time around, the action scenes - with long, exciting tracking shots of planes flying through valleys and over wild fires - often look like they were directed by James Cameron.
3.5/5
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How To Be Single
3AW
Jim Schembri
Hey, here's an original idea for a comedy: single girls in New York trying to land men.
1.5/5
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Go Karts (Go!)
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's not much point beating around the bush: this film is terrible. The acting is painfully stilted, the story sluggish...The narrative contains a minefield of plotholes...the film unspools like the kind of charmless mess we sat through in the 1980s.
1/5
5
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Prometheus
3AW
Jim Schembri
Ridley Scott's long-awaited prequel-of-sorts to his game-changing 1979 classic sci-fi terror ride Alien is not only conceptually lame and badly made, it's actually worse than Alien Resurrection.
1/5
5
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Prisoners
3AW
Jim Schembri
If there is one thing above all else to recommend Prisoners, it's the way it captures that white-hot skewer of fear that must run through the heart and mind of every parent who has ever suddenly looked around them and thought, "where's my kid?"
4.5/5
5
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Planes
3AW
Jim Schembri
Think Cars, but with planes. Passable, pleasant, mildly fun and apparently written by computer.
2.5/5
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Jodorowsky's Dune
3AW
Jim Schembri
Easily one of the most enjoyable documentaries about doomed film productions since Lost in La Mancha...Far from changing the way sci-fi would be, Jodorowsky's Dune could well have been a disaster that could have killed the genre.
3.5/5
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Nerve
3AW
Jim Schembri
The further the film goes, the stupider it gets.
2/5
5
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Straight Outta Compton
3AW
Jim Schembri
An amusing hook to the story is how it goes from being about the music to being about the music business, with success bringing the guys to blows over contracts and artistic integrity.
3/5
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Sleepwalk With Me
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though the sleep-walking episodes are funny, it's the way Mike Birbiglia captures the pains of performing comedy to tiny rooms that really fly.
3/5
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About Time
3AW
Jim Schembri
Having laid the tracks for the romantic comedy genre with Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, British comedy warhorse Richard Curtis hits a film career high with his most beautiful, measured and gorgeously eccentric film yet.
3.5/5
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Warm Bodies
3AW
Jim Schembri
A fun mashing of genres that joins the spate of recent films that recasts traditional movie ghouls as misunderstood outsiders. Seems that even the Undead need love.
3/5
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The World's End
3AW
Jim Schembri
Riffing on a wide variety of science fiction classics such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), director Edgar Wright keeps the laughs and the left turns coming.
3/5
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
3AW
Jim Schembri
In what could have been an extreme reaction to a paranoid fear of going stale, the film's directing triad - Tom McGrath, Eric Darnell and Conrad Vernon - have dialled up the crazy big-time; the pace of Mad3 is relentless.
3.5/5
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Hellboy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fans will know what to expect, and will enjoy. Any hope that this film will inspire a series, though, is pretty remote.
3/5
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Ang Lee returns with an earthy, timely contemplation about the war in Iraq, homeland apathy, virgin soldiers, heroism and first love. It's a wart-ridden drama with moments of piercing honesty that strike at the heart of a conflicted America.
4/5
5
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Wildlife
3AW
Jim Schembri
Actor Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) proves himself an adept, understated and nuanced dramatic director with his feature debut about a troubled marriage...A terrific, compelling drama.
3.5/5
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Calvary
3AW
Jim Schembri
After the near-brilliant buddy-cop black comedy shenanigans of The Guard, writer/director John Michael McDonagh dials everything up as he deploys darker humour and explores darker souls in the remarkable serio-comic Calvary.
3.5/5
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Wish You Were Here
3AW
Jim Schembri
For the most part this extremely well-acted Australian missing-person drama hits all the right buttons.
3/5
5
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Like a Boss
3AW
Jim Schembri
There is a pretty decent fistful of laughs in the film, mostly from Rose Byrne, who has been stealing scenes in comedy films since Bridesmaids...Ironically, the film was intended as a vehicle for Tiffany Haddish, though she can't quite match her co-star.
2.5/5
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Declaration of War
3AW
Jim Schembri
Touching, balanced and honest, the film imparts a life-affirming message about endurance, love and life's sudden gear shifts.
3.5/5
5
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Happy Death Day 2U
3AW
Jim Schembri
Not only will this surprisingly inventive sequel please fans of the first film - basically a slasher version of Groundhog Day - it might even win over those who weren't so keen on it. Director Chrisopher Landon brings a very cheeky vibe to this outing.
3/5
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Mud
3AW
Jim Schembri
This moody, broody character-driven crime story is another fine step in the career redemption of Matthew McConaughey.
3.5/5
5
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Goosebumps
3AW
Jim Schembri
Fabulously entertaining and funny action fantasy with monsters running amok as they escape from the locked Goosebumps manuscripts of author R.L Stine (Jack Black)...Huge fun.
3.5/5
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Broken City
3AW
Jim Schembri
It is predictable procedural fodder - you can see the "twists" coming a mile away - but done with enough conviction to paper over the plot holes and cliches.
3/5
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Oblivion
3AW
Jim Schembri
Directed with pace-driven efficiency by Joseph Kosinski (who did Tron: Legacy, but don't hold that against him), the film does indulge some sci-fi movie standards but is lifted well above the pack by its "what the?" plot turns.
3.5/5
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The Legend of Ben Hall
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Jim Schembri
The long-neglected tale of bushranger Ben Hall - there was an ABC TV series way back in 1975 - receives a pretty good going over in this impressive, ambitious, incident-packed feature from writer/director Matthew Holmes.
3/5
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Mrs. Lowry & Son
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Jim Schembri
Timothy Spall's performance is a sterling study of understatement and pent-up frustration opposite a bed-bound Venessa Redgrave, who plays his domineering, ego-crushing horror of a mother.
3/5
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Baywatch
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Jim Schembri
Crude as hell and full of self-references, this loving parody of the 1990s hit series stars Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson in a sun-filled party-like lark full of sand, sun, surf and slo-mo...a slick, well-directed diversion.
3/5
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Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
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Jim Schembri
We should pause to give sincere thanks to the film: on top of its cred as sheer big-screen entertainment, there's no prospect of an Edge of Tomorrow sequel or prequel, or of it being spun out into a franchise - and how friggin' rare is that these days?
3.5/5
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Victoria
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Jim Schembri
Mesmerising...This love of long, complicated takes we've been seeing in films such as Children of Men, Gravity, Birdman and The Revenant suggests a reaction against the frenetic rapid-fire cutting of blockbuster films. Here's to its continued evolution.
4/5
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Felony
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Jim Schembri
An outstanding, tautly directed, superbly acted film that again proves, as did Animal Kingdom, that Australian filmmakers have a distinctive knack for quality crime dramas that dig deeply into character and the morals that motivate their actions.
4/5
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Iris
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Jim Schembri
Full of life, wit and occasional wisdom, the film is as much about the energy of late director Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens), whose final film this was.
3/5
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
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Jim Schembri
The film is designed purely as a kaleidoscopic confection for the eyes and, in those terms, makes for splendid family entertainment.
3.5/5
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Get the Gringo
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Jim Schembri
Full of violence and blood-spattered gunplay, it's a visually grotty film buoyed mainly by Gibson's never-say-die performance.
2/5
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