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Review of Of Time and the City (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Mar 2009

Past and present are summoned up, and contrasted, yet their emotional impact is intermingled in a collage of archival images and footage, and…

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Review of JCVD (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Mar 2009

[Van Damme] brings a kind of weary dignity to the role, and a surprising self-awareness…

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Review of Let the Right One In (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Mar 2009

The torments of childhood, in Let the Right One in, are as disturbing in their own way as anything that the supernatural has to offer…

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Review of W. (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Mar 2009

Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser have little...to offer us…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Feb 2009

The film...hankers after something redemptive…

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Review of Rachel Getting Married (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Feb 2009

Demme...allows events to meander at times, but his cast is deft and emotionally direct…

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Review of Changeling (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Feb 2009

There are moments when it seems as if it wants to be an inspirational story about a person who refuses to be beaten by a corrupt system --…

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Review of The Class (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 Jan 2009

[An] energetic, tightly focused, intriguing feature that has the look and feel of a documentary…

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Review of Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

A bright, fitfully entertaining adaptation of two of Louise Rennison's popular novels for tween-to-teenage girls…

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Review of Waltz with Bashir (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Sep 2008

It is an autobiographical quest, an immersion in memory and history that leaves a remarkable, lingering impression…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 04 Sep 2008

Clever, unpredictable and entertaining, with moments of anguish…

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Review of Baby Mama (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Aug 2008

An under-achieving, lightweight movie that settles for a few competent gags and doesn't bother to take risks…

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Review of You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 19 Jun 2008

Things work out, of course, to everyone's satisfaction: there are a few political gags that have a veneer of audacity, but in essence, the…

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Review of Un Chien Andalou (1929)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Oct 2007

It is a mysterious, free-associating accumulation of images of violence, beauty and absurdity that confounded those who saw it then and confounds…

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Review of Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Jan 2006

I began to appreciate the neat reversals of expectations, slow pace and serene non sequiturs of the plot, the film's smart approach towards…

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Review of Azumi (2003)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Jan 2006

[Ueto's] lightness works in her favour at times, and is readily incorporated into the kinetic energy of the film, culminating in a crowded finale…

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Review of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Jan 2006

Hile there is something a little familiar about the use of a journey narrative, and the hint of an uplifting message at the end of the film,…

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Review of Sideways (2004)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Jan 2006

A study of friendship, disappointment and self-deception, Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne, has at its centre the most leisurely of bachelor…

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Review of Sideways (2009)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Jan 2006

A study of friendship, disappointment and self-deception, Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne, has at its centre the most leisurely of bachelor…

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Review of Hotel Rwanda (2004)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Jan 2006

Cheadle has an Oscar nomination for best actor. But this isn't a grandstanding portrayal: it is a performance at the service of the work…

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