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Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Jan 2009

A beautifully etched, touching essay about a damaged, desperate brute hoping for one taste of dignity and real fatherhood before his life goes…

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Review of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 26 Dec 2008

Punches its key themes of friendship, togetherness and family amid a hyperactive swirl of jokes, musical numbers and physical gags…

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Review of High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 10 Dec 2008

High School Musical 3 overstays its welcome, stretching out about 20 minutes longer than it needs to, thanks chiefly to a final celebratory…

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Review of Australia (1989)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Dec 2008

One wonders if there are any tablecloth cliches about Australia that have been missed…

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Review of Australia (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Dec 2008

One wonders if there are any tablecloth cliches about Australia that have been missed…

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Review of Quantum of Solace (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Nov 2008

Meaner, leaner and faster than ever, the new-fashioned, down-to-earth Bond movie might have a typically tangled plot and Daniel Craig scowling…

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Review of The Wackness (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Nov 2008

It muddles through on its period infatuation and on Kingsley's dope-loving turn as a doctor constantly on the verge of another hit…

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Review of Newcastle (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Nov 2008

The story is slight but the performances are strong…

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Review of Traitor (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Nov 2008

The Traitor manages to get right is what so many other post-9/11 films got wrong: it does not confuse criticism of American policy with an…

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Review of Death Race (1973)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Nov 2008

A must-see for petrolheads and cineastes alike…

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Review of Traitor (1971)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Nov 2008

The Traitor manages to get right is what so many other post-9/11 films got wrong: it does not confuse criticism of American policy with an…

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Review of Death Race (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Nov 2008

A must-see for petrolheads and cineastes alike…

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Review of RocknRolla (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 Oct 2008

It is perhaps high time for us to just come out and finally admit to the world that director Guy Ritchie is not a very good filmmaker…

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Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Oct 2008

Weide bypasses the impulse to push the film at the usual breakneck comedy movie pace, allowing the conflicts to build slowly and with more…

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Review of Max Payne (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Oct 2008

Though the film's action scenes won't win awards for originality, they can't be faulted for either their scale or love of slo-mo…

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Review of Towelhead (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Oct 2008

[Ball] succeeds admirably and with dramatic force, blending themes of racism, liberalism, emotional betrayal, abuse, hate speech and pedophilia…

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Review of Babylon A.D. (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Oct 2008

It's as though the film's final act was accidentally deleted on the digital editing console…

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Review of Eagle Eye (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

In Eagle Eye, old-school political paranoia is filtered through a new prism that focuses not on terrorism but on overcooked US government measures…

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Review of The House Bunny (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

It's computer-written stuff, stiffly directed by first-timer Fred Wolf, but it's light and fun and sports a decent quota of passable gags…

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Review of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Sep 2008

It's usually advisable to arrive for a film before it starts, but if you happen to be running late for this enjoyably brainless blockbuster,…

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