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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

17th Century English political philosophy meets 21st Century Russian fury in Andrey Zvyagintsev's bone-rattling epic, Leviathan…

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Review of Mommy (2014)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

There are moments of great tenderness in this study of an inextinguishable toxic love…

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Review of Party Girl (2014)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

For most of its running time, Party Girl is a slice of life redemption story, until the ending brings some drama which, though plausible, seems…

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Review of Mr. Turner (2014)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

Timothy Spall is a grunting, squinting, po-faced force of nature in Mike Leigh's surprising and charming biography of Romantic landscape painter…

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Review of Lost River (2015)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

A gruesome fairy tale of evil banks and sunken dreams, Lost River is a fantastically awful misfire from actor turned writer/director Ryan Gosling…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

There are moments of great tenderness in this study of an inextinguishable toxic love…

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Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

Winter Sleep is stitched together with so much wit and self-aware theatricality, it's abundantly clear how Ceylan really feels about the injured…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

There are moments of great tenderness in this study of an inextinguishable toxic love…

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Review of Mary and Max (2009)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 29 May 2014

A deliciously sentimental film whose offbeat sensibility manages to keep it out of the realm of schmaltz…

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Review of War Witch (2012)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 17 Dec 2013

With intelligence and deceptive simplicity, Nguyen injects the discombobulating impact of grief, conflict and PTSD (with the added effects…

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Review of Jobs (2013)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 17 Dec 2013

Matt Whiteley's clumsy script attempts to sync Jobs' personal story with the corporate history of his brand but as any affirmed Android/PC…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 09 Jun 2013

Performances are generally fine with the glaring exception of a laughably earnest Catherine Zeta Jones (channelling '90s Demi Moore) as Emily's…

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Review of The Bling Ring (2013)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 09 Jun 2013

Coppola observes the sticky-fingered waifs in their natural habitat (home, school, Paris Hilton's house) with her characteristic light touch…

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Review of Behind the Candelabra (2013)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 09 Jun 2013

Soderbergh exposes Liberace's subterfuge with knowing winks to the fact that if the performer were alive today, he'd be here, he'd be queer…

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Review of Only God Forgives (2013)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 09 Jun 2013

The story, such as it is, sits at the intersection of vice and virtue, and explores the consequences of terrible parenting…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 09 Jun 2013

Without Nick to articulate the decline, The Great Gatsby is reduced to little more than a love triangle between the remotely rich…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 11 Oct 2012

Irritating as the throughline's lack of subtlety may be, it's still about the least worst thing you can say about a film that is unashamedly…

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Review of On The Road (2010)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 26 Sep 2012

The straightforward narrative struggles to articulate the giddy thrills of making deep connections, of kindred spirits, and sex, jazz and Benzedrine…

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Review of On the Road (2014)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 26 Sep 2012

The straightforward narrative struggles to articulate the giddy thrills of making deep connections, of kindred spirits, and sex, jazz and Benzedrine…

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Review of On the Road (2012)

By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 26 Sep 2012

The straightforward narrative struggles to articulate the giddy thrills of making deep connections, of kindred spirits, and sex, jazz and Benzedrine…

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