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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 06 Jan 2015

This is a beautifully shot, intelligently directed film that, as with former soldier Stephen Daisley's award-winning 2010 novel Traitor, shows…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 06 Jan 2015

While the action scenes are eye-popping, for me the film becomes something special in stiller moments, with the megalomaniac Thorin raving,…

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Review of The Captive (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 19 Dec 2014

Egoyan skilfully brings these story-lines together as the film builds to its disconcerting conclusion…

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Review of Turkey Shoot (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 19 Dec 2014

There's also a lack of suspense, with events following the predictable pattern of a much-played video game…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 19 Dec 2014

A foul-mouthed, sex-obsessed immature comedy that pushes the boundaries of decency…

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Review of The Mule (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 11 Dec 2014

This gritty, claustrophobic film will not be to everyone's taste -- and if I say that phrase also has a double meaning, you have a hint of…

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Review of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 11 Dec 2014

Carell and Garner do the physical comedy with a lot of flair, the younger actors more than hold up their end and Megan Mullally of Will and…

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Review of Rock the Casbah (2013)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 21 Nov 2014

This film continues to linger in my mind. See it at a morning session with a strong coffee. You won't regret it…

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Review of The Dark Horse (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 21 Nov 2014

Curtis commands our attention in every scene, not least because we are unsure of what he will do next…

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Review of Let's Be Cops (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 14 Nov 2014

At this point Let's Be Cops loses much of its humour and starts looking like a film Liam Neeson will turn up in any time soon…

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Review of Finding Vivian Maier (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 07 Nov 2014

This is a film that starts out being about an unknown artist and ends up being about something more complex and challenging: a person…

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Review of My Mistress (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 07 Nov 2014

While it's good that Lance eschews the conventional, the question becomes, what does he have in its place? I was left unsure of the answer…

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Review of Rise (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 07 Nov 2014

Mack Lindon's autobiographical prison drama Riseis one of the strangest films I've seen in a while, not always in a good way but not always…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 09 Sep 2014

This is an intimate, poignant film that makes you feel a little sad…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 09 Sep 2014

This is an intimate, poignant film that makes you feel a little sad…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 05 Aug 2012

If anything, Cosmopolis is more timely now than when DeLillo published it almost a decade ago…

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