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Review of Don't Breathe (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Aug 2016

This is one for horror diehards -- well-engineered, but not on a par with Jeremy Saulnier's grimy Green Room or Dan Trachtenberg's zany…

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Review of Nerve (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Aug 2016

The secret weapon of the film is cinematographer Michael Simmonds, who has a whole bag of tricks up his sleeve…

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Review of Girl Asleep (2015)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Aug 2016

The only realism that matters here is the emotional kind, and while Myers and Whittet have a strong feeling for everyday teen humiliation,…

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Review of Free State of Jones (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Aug 2016

The historical drama Free State of Jones isn't everything it might have been, but it tells a good story, and that's half the battle…

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Review of Ben-Hur (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Aug 2016

Like so many remakes, this one never answers the basic question of why this story was worth retelling in the first place…

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Review of David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Aug 2016

In the absence of a plot, what remains is a series of repetitive scenes where he makes a fool of himself, unimaginatively staged with no real…

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Review of Tickled (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Aug 2016

It would be unfair to spoil the surprises in David Farrier and Dylan Reeve's investigative documentary Tickled, but the premise should be enough…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Aug 2016

Collet-Serra seems as transfixed by the landscape as he is by Lively's presence, suggesting a continuity between humanity and the natural world…

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Review of Sausage Party (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 10 Aug 2016

This is a film that tackles some big themes: religion, sex, ethnic conflict, the meaning of life and death…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Aug 2016

Wildly tonally inconsistent, not to mention cluttered and poorly paced…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Jul 2016

While Greengrass lacks the poetic flair of a director such as Michael Mann, he has his own assured, breathless style, characterised by rapid…

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Review of Dough (2015)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Jul 2016

Give or take a handful of clumsy topical references, this is a film that could well have been made in the 1970s or '80s…

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Review of Lights Out (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 19 Jul 2016

Lights Out would be a modest triumph if not for one near-fatal flaw, which it shares with much modern horror: the overblown, schlocky sound…

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Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 19 Jul 2016

It would be optimistic to expect the franchise to venture into new conceptual territory at this point…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Jul 2016

While the dialogue doesn't labour the point, this is a film about women brought together by a shared intellectual passion, shrugging off the…

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Review of Goldstone (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Jul 2016

Faults and all, Goldstone dramatises some unpalatable themes with power and clarity, and seems likely to be remembered as one of the key Australian…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Jul 2016

There were possibilities in this set-up, but the film takes its tone from the glum Skarsgard, who has the bulky torso but not the spirit…

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Review of Central Intelligence (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Jun 2016

The thin, disjointed thriller plot is little more than an excuse to show the characters reacting in opposed ways: Bob typically cruising through…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Jun 2016

As ever, Spielberg seems aware of his own darker side, but is keen to gloss it over…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 21 Jun 2016

It's as if Linklater is bound by a bro code that obliges him to present these guys in a basically uncritical light…

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