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Review of The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 10 Sep 2015

It's a visually rich, tactile film with two beautifully observed, subtle performances at its centre…

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Review of Pixels (2010)

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

Dinklage and Gad bring an energy to their performances that Sandler conspicuously lacks. However, it's hardly enough…

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Review of Pixels (2015)

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

Dinklage and Gad bring an energy to their performances that Sandler conspicuously lacks. However, it's hardly enough…

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Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Sep 2015

It's a tricky mixture of charm and contrivance, with appealing performances, ambition and surprising limitations…

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Review of A Walk in the Woods (2015)

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

The to and fro of dialogue between the men never goes very far, and we don't really get a sense of the natural world that the pair experience…

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Review of Best of Enemies (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 26 Aug 2015

A smart, engrossing documentary about a political and media moment in the United States in the 1960s; a moment whose resonance is topical and…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Aug 2015

Despite the fact that it seems to have been designed for a sequel, it's hard to summon up any enthusiasm for the prospect…

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Review of The Farewell Party (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 05 Aug 2015

Israeli filmmakers Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon tackle matters of life and death with a bracing mixture of seriousness, sentiment and…

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Review of Magic Mike XXL (2015)

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

It's a reinforcement of some elements of the first film, but also a departure in ways that make it more thoughtful than its predecessor without…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

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

This new feature takes issues of absurdity and scale to heart in many ways; it is modest as well as ambitious, and its title character is played…

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Review of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

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

T's full of tension, but it's also disturbing on another level: it's hard not to be reminded of recent events…

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Review of Tangerines (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Jun 2015

The film is a character study, a chamber piece with incursions, a morality play with a thoughtful sense of its own boundaries…

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Review of Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Jun 2015

It's not hard to see the appeal of the Camino, in its simplicity and potential -- even if Smith's film can depict only aspects of the experience,…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

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

A smart, vivid action movie that understands the pitfalls and pleasures of the prehistoric fantasy…

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Review of The Face of an Angel (2014)

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

The Face Of An Angel, although it presents a sceptical look at the operations of the media, turns out to be about a different questions of…

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Review of Entourage (2015)

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

There are traces of what made the TV series entertaining, but not enough to sustain a movie…

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Review of Spy (2015)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 19 May 2015

The car chases might wear out their welcome, but the plot twists are neat, and the physical comedy robust and intense…

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Review of Banksy Does New York (2014)

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

The talking heads can't tell us much, but Moukarbel makes deft use of crowd-sourced footage to convey the wildly different ways New Yorkers…

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Review of The Age of Adaline (2015)

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

It floats, like Lively herself, in a kind of timeless bubble…

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Review of Mommy (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 08 Apr 2015

The cinematic frame might have contracted, but there's a kind of ferocious compassion in Dolan's vision, and its embrace is startlingly wide…

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