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Review of From Vegas to Macau III (2016)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Feb 2016

This third instalment is a succession of CGI-driven sequences, comic routines and action set-pieces, played out with a distinct lack of energy…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Feb 2016

Room is a powerful imagining of an extraordinary situation, but it's also a poignant evocation of the ordinary, everyday intensity and complexity…

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Review of Goosebumps (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 Jan 2016

As the monsters are set free, and special effects mayhem starts to pile up, Goosebumps becomes an undifferentiated thrill ride, a slightly…

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Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Jan 2016

There are some clunky or abruptly compressed revelations, and Evan's flashback story is dispatched far too quickly…

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Review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Dec 2015

There are a few cameos... there's product placement galore, a few bearable gags, a few songs and not much else…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 Dec 2015

It's a graceful, serious-minded period piece that never quite comes to life, although it tells its story clearly and is at pains to place a…

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Review of The End of the Tour (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Dec 2015

Despite the depiction of rivalry and discomfort, its tone is not harsh; there's something restrained and carefully poignant about the film…

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Review of Love the Coopers (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 Dec 2015

One Last Christmas. It's like One Last Job in a heist movie -- an enterprise embarked on with the best of intentions, but bound to go badly…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 Dec 2015

Creed moves the Rocky franchise into the present and gives it a future; Coogler makes the story his own, even as he pays respect to what has…

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Review of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Nov 2015

It soon becomes obvious that there is no avoiding the burden of predictability: there is nothing, essentially, in the film's story that we…

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Review of Putuparri and the Rainmakers (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Nov 2015

Nicole Ma's rich, engrossing and rewarding documentary gives us a sense of time that operates on many levels…

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Review of Freeheld (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 04 Nov 2015

There is an important and moving story at its heart, and strong central performances from Moore, Page and Shannon, but they're undermined,…

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Review of Only the Dead (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Oct 2015

There are occasions when more information or sustained introspection feels necessary, but there also times when images speak for themselves…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 Oct 2015

[A] singular, engrossing collection of vignettes with a cumulative, disconcerting power…

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Review of The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Oct 2015

The Last Witch Hunter starts off with traces of sly humour, but gradually collapses into a unwieldy combination of special effects confrontations…

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Review of Burnt (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Oct 2015

Alongside Cooper, director John Wells has gathered a strong ensemble cast, but they're given little to work with…

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Review of Legend (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Oct 2015

The movie never really gives Hardy enough to work with…

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Review of Pan (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 Sep 2015

Pan simply turns into a 3D thrill ride, with a lot of falling through space and flying pirate ships lurching here and there, for no obvious reason…

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Review of A Second Chance (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 Sep 2015

The way the twists occur tends to undermine what could be a more interesting, resonant story about the darker aspects of family, parenthood,…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Sep 2015

Kormakur creates a convincing sense of the physical environment, the intensity of the experience, the sound and physical impact of extreme…

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