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Review of Burlesque (2009)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 12 Jan 2011

Yes, Burlesque is bad, but it's the good kind of bad, with plenty of unintentional laughs and a powerfully dreadful lead performance by Cher…

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Review of Yogi Bear (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 12 Jan 2011

Kudos to director Eric Brevig and his team of digital animation artists for a rendering of Yogi that, for all its wonderful detail, remains…

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Review of Tangled (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 08 Jan 2011

Disney's latest fairy tale makeover is a sheer delight, a solid-gold piece of family entertainment that hits just about every button you could…

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Review of Tangled (2001)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 08 Jan 2011

Disney's latest fairy tale makeover is a sheer delight, a solid-gold piece of family entertainment that hits just about every button you could…

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Review of Unstoppable (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Jan 2011

(Director Tony) Scott is much better at building tension here than he was in 2009's so-average-it-hurt remake of The Taking of Pelham 123…

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Review of The Tourist (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Dec 2010

A bland, badly directed, star-driven cinematic molestation of Jérôme Salle's tight-as-a-drum 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer…

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Review of Somewhere (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Dec 2010

(A) cosmically overrated, emotionally vacant micro-drama...that unspools as a limp, cynical attempt to replicate the nuance-rich tapestry of…

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Review of Little Fockers (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Dec 2010

Consistently chuckle-worthy, Little Fockers...somehow sidesteps the law of diminishing returns that usually applies to comedy threequels…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Dec 2010

The film everybody's talking about is, quite fittingly, a film about talking. And a great one, certainly as far as A-grade performance showcases go…

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Review of Gulliver's Travels (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Dec 2010

A quick, fun, family-friendly fantasy adventure spiced by some nifty visual effects…

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Review of TRON: Legacy (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Dec 2010

This 28-years-later sequel has some flash and sparkle in a few of its action sequences, but there's way too little drama or visual dazzle to…

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Review of Megamind (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 08 Dec 2010

A full-bodied, busy-as-heck, funny-as-heck comedy adventure from Dreamworks that merrily riffs -- in its own fractured way -- on the Superman legend…

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Review of Devil (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 08 Dec 2010

Though the poster bravely boasts this movie as being ''from the mind of M Night Shyamalan'', Devil is actually not an over-long, near-unwatchable…

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Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 Dec 2010

A big improvement on the first two and a potent antidote to HP7.1, Narnia III is strongly recommended, whatever your Narnian status may be…

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Review of The Last Exorcism (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Nov 2010

Unfortunately, at about the half-way point, the brittle mood so carefully created by the single-camera coverage is broken by multi-camera editing…

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Review of Due Date (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Nov 2010

It's a tough double act, but the film pulls it off with great confidence and some major laughs…

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Review of Copacabana (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Nov 2010

The film maintains an amiable and warm through line about Babou's desire to reconnect with her disapproving daughter, but the real joy here…

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Review of Monsters (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 Nov 2010

The film also has the misfortune of coming in the wake of Cloverfield and District 9, which were much bigger and more accomplished renderings…

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Review of Gasland (2010)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Nov 2010

This very good documentary by noted American troublemaker Josh Fox details the contamination of drinking water caused by the drilling for natural…

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Review of Agora (2009)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Nov 2010

Alejandro Amenábar creates a palpable sense of place and never strays too far from his duty to stage big, sense-filling set pieces…

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