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Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Feb 2013

Trying to one-up Tolstoy was always going to be a bad idea, though I wouldn't object to seeing a Bond movie, or Les Miserables, staged in the…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Dec 2012

The narrative feels almost intentionally hokey and diagrammatic, a framework that gives the actors freedom to display their best-known qualities…

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Review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 Nov 2012

Even making allowances for a certain amount of Hollywood gloss, there's something wrong with a film about misfits where everyone is this good-looking…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 22 Nov 2012

Skyfall is not, of course, ''darker'' or more serious than previous Bond films, but it's more knowing about its own conventions…

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Review of Sound of My Voice (2011)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 Nov 2012

Either Maggie is the real deal, or she's lying, or we never find out. In any case, anticlimax seems inevitable…

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Review of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 Nov 2012

There's something marvellously comic about her, an effect reinforced by her refined yet raucous baritone voice…

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Review of Robot & Frank (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Nov 2012

The final twist is a little forced, but otherwise the actors ensure that the fanciful plot stays grounded in recognisable emotions -- and Langella…

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Review of Dead Europe (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Nov 2012

The film might have felt truer to its source if it were either pulpier or more avant-garde…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Nov 2012

After nearly two hours of padding, there's a laughable climactic battle sequence with heads shattering bloodlessly…

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Review of Secret of the Wings (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Oct 2012

The usual warning applies: adults should steer clear…

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Review of Taken 2 (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Oct 2012

Neeson's soft-spoken Angry Dad routine has been flattened into burlesque, giving him little to do but alternate between bumbling dork and efficient…

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Review of Hit & Run (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 05 Sep 2012

Hit and Run sets out to be crass and compassionate by turns, but Shepard's inexperience as a writer is obvious throughout: the structure is…

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Review of Monsieur Lazhar (2011)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 05 Sep 2012

Lazhar is something of a puzzle, and much of the pleasure of Philippe Falardeau's film lies in the gradual unfolding of his reserved yet impulsive…

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Review of Love (2011)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 Aug 2012

Eubank may well have a future as a cinematographer, or in the special effects business. But a filmmaker he ain't…

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Review of Money or Love (2011)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 Aug 2012

Eubank may well have a future as a cinematographer, or in the special effects business. But a filmmaker he ain't…

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Review of Total Recall (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 Aug 2012

Wiseman's style is superficially grittier, reliant on desaturated colours, whip pans and lens flare…

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Review of Brave (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Jun 2012

None of this virtuosity makes the story any less dull…

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Review of Careless Love (1976)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 May 2012

Realism is not a primary concern: an element of unlikely melodrama is planted early on but not detonated until the final minute, boldly allowing…

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Review of Careless Love (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 May 2012

Realism is not a primary concern: an element of unlikely melodrama is planted early on but not detonated until the final minute, boldly allowing…

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Review of The Dictator (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 May 2012

Nothing here is sustained, neither the feel-good redemption narrative nor the insistence that the jolly hero is a genuinely fearsome monster…

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