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By Chris Hewitt (Uk) (87) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 05 Jan 2009

Often beautiful but wildly inconsistent, Australia is none more Baz Luhrmann, which perhaps says it all. Worth a look on the big screen, though…

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By Nina Caplan (15) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Jan 2009

It's a fine romp, epic in both ambition and visuals if not narrative - and if director Baz Luhrmann had stopped at the end of the love story's…

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By James Christopher (268) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 05 Jan 2009

Australia is an epic love story, and a quite extraordinary piece of kitsch. Everything about the film is wildly over the top…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 05 Jan 2009

We are left with slow-moving insincerity and conceit, summoned up in the flatulence of that title: Australia, a country reborn in terms of…

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By Sukhdev Sandhu (247) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 05 Jan 2009

Luhrmann's imagination too, demented and over reaching though it might be, is a glorious and vagrant thing to behold…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 05 Jan 2009

It's anything but cool. It's warm, it has a big heart, and if you look at it in the right light, it's really rather beautiful…

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By Mark Adams (368) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 05 Jan 2009

Some of it doesn't work, but it remains a gloriously ambitious romantic epic and a truly memorable big-screen movie experience…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 05 Jan 2009

The photography is a knockout…

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By Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (441) for Metro (UK) (700) on 05 Jan 2009

It's a thoroughly enjoyable romp - the cinematic equivalent of a bath-full of Quality Street…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 05 Jan 2009

Australia is a film for which you have constantly to suspend your disbelief…

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By Victor Olliver (198) for Teletext (251) on 02 Jan 2009

Jackman persuades as an Outback cowboy, Kidman's cut glass accent doesn't. Walters as Nullah is a great discovery…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 27 Dec 2008

Never quite locks together into the sweeping cinematic journey Luhrmann clearly set out to create…

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By Kimberly Gadette (432) for Indie Movies Online (213) on 20 Dec 2008

With plot is similar to a Barbara Stanwyck '50s Western by way of Out of Africa, Luhrmann directs Kidman in a surprisingly scene-chewing performance…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Film4 (1,522) on 19 Dec 2008

An endurance test of good intentions and tangled ideas, exploited facts and fuzzy fictions, where the performances, like the plot, are slapped…

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By Bruce Bennett (577) for Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (575) on 19 Dec 2008

Overcoming choppy storytelling, this film ultimately proves that the sum of its flawed parts is still a more than worthwhile adventure…

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By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Dec 2008

In his kitschy way, Luhrmann delivers the goods, even when his big moments inspire tears of laughter rather than emotion…

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By Thomas Peyser (78) for Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) (78) on 10 Dec 2008

By the end, your wonderment at Luhrmann's inextinguishable enthusiasm for hokum starts to break you down and win you over…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 08 Dec 2008

Luhrmann shamelessly indulges in the most sweeping style of filmmaking imaginable, filling the screen with expansive images, action and emotion,…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Dec 2008

Kitsch and cliche drive the story, but the faces and locations are stunning -- when the movie's over, you feel like you've been somewhere and…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 04 Dec 2008

A lively, rollicking, overlong, overstuffed movie that tries my patience as much as it entertains me…

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