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Movie Reviews by Craig Mathieson - Page 2 of 23

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Review of Ice Mother (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Sep 2018

The true respect Slama pays to his greying protagonists is to consider them fully-formed characters…

Review of Time Trial (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Sep 2018

Pretsell reveals the daily peloton as a complex, bobbing organism complete with workplace chit-chat and the constant oversight of employers,…

Review of Keep the Change (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 06 Sep 2018

The film has a genuine openness, but it never limits the pair's interaction - in their own way they must negotiate everything from David's…

Review of Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 06 Sep 2018

The filmmaking is as warm as the beats Sam programs, but for all the comforts in the storytelling, as well as new relationships for Frank and…

Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 06 Sep 2018

Footage that was at first celebratory is seen again as a form of reckoning, and the moment where the narrative breaks the frame of individual…

Review of The Spy Gone North (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 06 Sep 2018

There is a digital Pyongyang and a deeply uncomfortable meeting with then Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, but what endures is the ludicrously fine…

Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 20 Aug 2018

As a coming of age tale it is sparse, bittersweet and desperately powerful - change is pulling these two interwoven lives apart, made explicit…

Review of Columbus (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Jul 2018

The depth of field in the compositions suggests the emotional reaches of these becalmed lives, but the film never imposes the pair's back and…

Review of Filmworker (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Jun 2018

The demands from Kubrick were Kafkaesque recalls Vitali's son, Max, but technically rough as it is, Zierra's film not only captures his subject's…

Review of Elementary (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2018

A timely reminder of how a child's education is crucially connected to their teacher, this French drama turns a primary school classroom into…

Review of Between Land and Sea (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 14 Jun 2018

The cultural shift onshore isn't closely examined, but when the action moves into the water the attraction of the waves is eloquently established…

Review of My Friend Dahmer (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 14 Jun 2018

The movie is best as a study of teenage enthusiasm and exploitation, charting his association with a trio of anarchic classmates - including…

Review of Food Fighter (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 14 Jun 2018

Dan Goldberg's film is tied to Kahn's cheerfully indomitable personality - it has her engaging spark and dedication…

Review of Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 14 Jun 2018

Narrated by Sam Waterston, Ema Ryan Yamazaki's documentary is an affectionate portrait of a couple - she was mischievous, he was curious -…

Review of Crooked House (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 20 May 2018

You could read the film as a study of familial wealth and corruption, but it's happiest at a formal dinner where the insults - Downton Abbey's…

Review of The Cakemaker (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 20 May 2018

But in helping Anat, Thomas fails to reveal his connection to her husband…

Review of Midnight Oil: 1984 (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 11 May 2018

The uncertainty his efforts created internally are sympathetically treated in the contemporary interviews, but it would have been of value…

Review of No Stone Unturned (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 22 Apr 2018

The film shows how corruption spreads outwards from supposedly righteous causes…

Review of Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 22 Apr 2018

Shot through with evocative compositions, from menacingly framed interiors to wide-screen landscapes that can never quite contain the anger…

Review of I Am Not a Witch (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 22 Apr 2018

Nyoni not only captures the absurdist processes of this world, with men delivering verdicts on the women, she frames it with compositions that…

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