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Review of Half Light (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Plenty of stringy wind-swept hair and shapeless woolly jumpers abound, and at least there's picturesque scenery for a slow afternoon's viewing…

Review of Aquamarine (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Little girls and salty sea dogs alike have long been held in thrall to the mermaid's siren song; in Aquamarine, based on Alice Hoffman's book,…

Review of Domino (2005)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Scott never takes his finger off the remix button, meaning scenes play out in microflashes and dialogue is chopped and scratched like a beatmixing…

Review of The Benchwarmers (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Stupidity this epic can only be the deliberate work of cynical opportunists…

Review of Thumbsucker (2005)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Mills, a former music video director, writes and directs with subtle clarity, bringing a refreshing sensibility to the archetypical tale in…

Review of Fast Food Nation (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

This is a considered film that lacks the immediacy of a blunt message like the more simplistic Super Size Me, or the punchy, smokescreen climax…

Review of Nacho Libre (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

In a season of smug, telegraphed quirkiness (hello, Little Miss Sunshine), the rambling Nacho Libre, like director Jared Hess' previous Napoleon…

Review of Domino (1943)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Scott never takes his finger off the remix button, meaning scenes play out in microflashes and dialogue is chopped and scratched like a beatmixing…

Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Lurid melodrama lifted by corrosive writing and a frightening performance from the Dame…

Review of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

This long-overdue follow-up goes the way of most sequels, delivering a visually impressive but far more simplistic -- and thus unsatisfying -- story…

Review of Apocalypto (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Damn if the movie, through Mel's sheer determination, doesn't almost turn from a fight-n-flight gore fest into a moving meditation on a civilisation…

Review of Nobody Knows (2004)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

What begins as a slow, determinedly realist account of the children's existence gradually weaves a spell via Kore-eda's gift for delicate emotional…

Review of Mysterious Skin (2005)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

By exploring the taboo topic of paedophilia in a humanist manner that avoids sensationalising or heavy-handed verdicts, Araki's eloquent, sensitive…

Review of Palindromes (2005)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

There's pointed fatalism and indictments of middle-class superiority, but Solondz, ever the outsider, never loses affection for his misfits…

Review of The Libertine (2004)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

If Johnny Depp's barmy stumble through the yo-ho-hum Pirates sequel was playtime rehash, then his loathsome portrayal of the pestilent aristocrat…

Review of Lady in the Water (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Once again Shyamalan is a maddening storyteller, by turns inspired and insipid, and he still manages to conjure some odd, unnerving moments…

Review of House of Flying Daggers (2004)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

Though occasionally overwrought, peerless sequences, such as the sublime flight through a bamboo forest, ensure House Of Flying Daggers is…

Review of Happy Endings (2005)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

The drama never feels more than a well-shot TV soap…

Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

[Depp is] ever the most watchable of freaks, even if he is slipping in and out of accents, looking perplexed at his slight lines and, most…

Review of Barnyard (2006)

By Luke Goodsell (126) for Empire Magazine Australasia (200) on 07 Nov 2012

A shockingly crass grab for holiday pocket money that's both infantile and endlessly patronising…

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Luke Goodsell has written reviews for:

Movie Mezzanine (782)
4:3 (202)
Empire Magazine Australasia (200)
The Final Cut (64)
The Monthly (Australia) (39)
The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia) (13)
ABC News (Australia) (10)

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