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Review of Mozart's Sister (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 04 Aug 2011

An intimate and subdued tale of suppressed talent and filial loyalty, the film builds an engaging fiction around some of the facts of Nannerl,…

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Review of The Conspirator (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 29 Jul 2011

Robert Redford's courtroom drama about the trial of Mary Surratt after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is both a gripping drama and a…

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Review of From Time to Time (2009)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 06 Jul 2011

This family film - that mixes Regency ghosts and a rambling, secret-filled mansion - lacks oomph and charm despite its top shelf cast, including…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 28 Jun 2011

Terrence Malick's long awaited meditation on spirituality, loss and innocence stars Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain as a 1950's couple who -…

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Review of How I Ended This Summer (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 25 Jun 2011

A cinematic and dramatic treat, this spectacular piece of contemporary Russian filmmaking follows two meteorologists stationed on a remote…

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Review of The Human Resources Manager (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 15 Jun 2011

A sometimes serious, sometimes quirky road movie sees an HR Manager travel from Jerusalem to Romania with a dead body, a collection of strange…

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Review of Cane Toads: The Conquest (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 15 Jun 2011

Updating his famous 1988 documentary, Mark Lewis takes a warm and quirky look at the people who love, hate, sell, study, kill or hug the famous…

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Review of The Lost Bladesman (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 04 May 2011

An epic historical martial arts film with thin characters, a tepid love story and some excellent fight sequences with the long-handled crescent-moon…

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Review of Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 04 May 2011

A crazed, attention-deficit disordered blitz of one-liners that sees Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf chase evil fairy tale characters…

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Review of Potiche (1983)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 04 May 2011

A fluffy soufflé starring two of the biggest names in French cinema, Potiche is dated and theatrical but provides a few gentle laughs for…

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Review of The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 30 Mar 2011

This slick but uncharismatic cat-and-mouse game between maverick lawyer and rich client, is courtroom drama far too fascinated by its own sense…

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Review of Biutiful (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 23 Mar 2011

This cinematic journey of one man along the boundaries of life and death is an extraordinary work of genius…

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Review of Griff the Invisible (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 17 Mar 2011

When introverted office clerk and night-time superhero Griff meets space cadet Melody, you get a small and delightfully charming romance between…

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Review of Inside Job (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 10 Mar 2011

An insightful and very sorry tale of the worst kind of greed, this Oscar-winning documentary exposes the people behind the global financial…

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Review of The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 03 Mar 2011

With the exception of a few cute lines from Emily Blunt, it's a bureaucratically grey and decidedly empty tale about very little…

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Review of Wasted on the Young (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 15 Feb 2011

Without question one of the most striking Australian films of the past five years, director Lucas stamps his visual style on a very contemporary…

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Review of Hereafter (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 10 Feb 2011

This melancholy tale - not so much about the afterlife as about its teasingly morbid lure on three people in different countries - is far from…

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Review of Faster (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 03 Feb 2011

A soulless revenge movie where the uber-slick, uber-hackneyed design takes precedence over story, character and theme may stir a few looking…

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Review of Faster! (2010)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 03 Feb 2011

A soulless revenge movie where the uber-slick, uber-hackneyed design takes precedence over story, character and theme may stir a few looking…

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Review of Shaolin (2011)

By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 27 Jan 2011

Evil warlords and nifty monks battle it out physically and spiritually in this epic and histrionic tale of how the most nasty of men can find…

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