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Review of Listen Up Philip (2014)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

Listen Up Philip [is] an uneven mixture of satire and homage…

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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for Australian Book Review (21) on 11 Sep 2017

A Quiet Passion, like most films about writers, sticks to the life that can be dramatised, rather than the writing process, which can't…

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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

Newcastle-born stand-up comedian Dave Johns plays this largely non-comedic part with understated warmth…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

Kermit [the Frog] embodies the strange magic of puppetry…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

The bravery and the radicalism was real. I wish, though, that the film itself was a little braver, a little more visceral…

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Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for Kill Your Darlings (26) on 11 Sep 2017

Borrow a young relative for cover if you must, but believe me, you are not too cool for a kid's movie when it's this much fun…

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Review of O.J.: Made in America (2016)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

It will stand alongside the similarly epic Hoop Dreams as a documentary that, with sport as its ostensible subject, also serves as an examination…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

Spectre is an elaborate justification for the relevance of the gun-toting, martini-drinking spy in a post-Snowden world…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

What the film and its characters convey to us, cumulatively, is a struggle for and towards dignity…

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Review of Pride (2014)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

The film hits some obvious notes, and some sentimental ones, but it also surprises…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for Australian Book Review (21) on 11 Sep 2017

Love and Friendship is very funny, funnier still for its absence of moral reckoning…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

Boyhood never allows itself to be trivial - we never see anyone buying groceries, or picking their nose, or spending their days tied to a job…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for Australian Book Review (21) on 11 Sep 2017

Though A United Kingdom has an emotional arc that is too predictable, its resurrection of a widely forgotten piece of twentieth-century history…

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Review of God's Own Country (2017)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for Australian Book Review (21) on 11 Sep 2017

[Francis] Lee allows more optimism into his film, including the suggestion that agriculture itself might still have a future in England…

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Review of What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

Though it is doubtful that [Nina] Simone, were she still alive, would be much impressed with [Kanye] West's music - she once said that she…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

[Wes Anderson's] nostalgia, like his set design, is so contrived that I don't believe he really believes in it as anything other than a visual…

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Review of Sherpa (2015)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for Kill Your Darlings (26) on 11 Sep 2017

In [Jennifer] Peedom's film we see a mountain that is both workplace and sacred site, integral to both the economic livelihood and the religious…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for Kill Your Darlings (26) on 11 Sep 2017

Selma gives back to the Civil Rights movement its urgent and motivating anger, when too often the movement has been misrepresented as a cause…

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Review of Dior and I (2015)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

It celebrates Simons' vision, but, more interestingly, also reveals to viewers the busy, hierarchical world of the atelier, where dozens of…

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Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Anwen Crawford (47) for The Monthly (Australia) (39) on 11 Sep 2017

The achievement of [Ron] Howard's documentary is to make the familiar feel new again, placing the viewer inside that moment - even if you never…

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