Movie Reviews by Jim Schembri - Page 55 of 65

1,081-1,100 of 1,298 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of 13 Assassins (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Sep 2011

The excessive mind of Japanese director Takashi Miike (Audition; Ichi the Killer) throttles back the gore to deliver a disciplined, refreshingly…

Read Review

Review of Chalet Girl (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 Sep 2011

Undemanding, forgettable, formulaic teen rom-com…

Read Review

Review of The Help (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 Sep 2011

If you get to the end of this movie without tearing up at least once, please check for a pulse; you might already be dead…

Read Review

Review of Senna (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 10 Aug 2011

Though largely side-stepping his personal life, Kapadia goes to some lengths to highlight the importance spirituality played in Senna's sporting…

Read Review

Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Aug 2011

Having gone in with very low expectations, this reviewer was totally blown away by Rise of the Planet of the Apes…

Read Review

Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Jul 2011

The film's subdued dramatic finale - resonant as it is with themes of sacrifice, the responsibilities of power, friendship, hard-won wisdom…

Read Review

Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Jul 2011

All that really emerges is that Terrence Malick...has, Stanley Kubrick-style, fermented into a filmmaker with a glacial output who begs to…

Read Review

Review of The Trip (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Jul 2011

Fuelled by some inspired and very funny improvisations - their duelling Michael Caine impersonations are a scream - the film gradually settles…

Read Review

Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 Jun 2011

With what appears to be a limitless effects budget, Bay presides over reels and reels of intricately orchestrated mayhem, the scale of which…

Read Review

Review of Sleeping Beauty (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Jun 2011

Certainly not the unwatchable dreck some have made it out to be, unspooling more as a foggy, puzzling meditation about erotic fixation and…

Read Review

Review of The Last Circus (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Jun 2011

Leave any semblance of sensitivity at the box office and enjoy this breathlessly paced, visually busy, certifiably nutty slice of Spanish surrealism…

Read Review

Review of Cars 2 (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Jun 2011

This is one Pixar film where you really do feel the length as keenly as the merchandising push…

Read Review

Review of Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Jun 2011

The massive amount of artistry that has gone into the cinematography, lighting and design makes this as sumptuous and pleasing a film to behold…

Read Review

Review of Super 8 (1988)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Jun 2011

Regrettably, writer/director JJ Abrams (Star Trek, Mission Impossible III, co-creator of TV series Lost) is better here at building suspense…

Read Review

Review of The Hangover Part II (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Jun 2011

It might not be quite as much fun as the first film but it's fun enough - and that's all that counts. Plus, there's a monkey in it…

Read Review

Review of Burke & Hare (1972)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Jun 2011

Veteran comedy director John Landis returns with this pitch-black, factually based tale about two money-hungry 19th-century Irishmen who meet…

Read Review

Review of X-Men: First Class (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Jun 2011

Easily chimes in as the best, most engaging and visually impressive X-film so far…

Read Review

Review of Thor (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Jun 2011

Director Kenneth Branagh, for all the Shakespearean fruitiness he imbues into some of his A-list performers, never forgets that Thor is ultimately…

Read Review

Review of Insidious (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Jun 2011

Director James Wan here proves himself very adept at building dramatic tension and making you anxious about the things going on in your peripheral…

Read Review

Review of Water for Elephants (2011)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Jun 2011

There's no doubting the luscious detail and feel for the period, but the love triangle that inevitable kicks in is a little too rote, even…

Read Review

Page 55 of 65

Jim Schembri has written reviews for:

Jim Schembri is connected to:

Popular Movies Right Now

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews