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By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 26 Nov 2008

Comedy and tragedy, action and melodrama, full measures of quirk and swoon: It's just a plain good time at the movies…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 26 Nov 2008

All in all, Australia is so damnably eager to please that it feels like being pinned down by a giant overfriendly dingo and having your face…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 26 Nov 2008

It's an endurance test that ends in moans of recognition as characters seem to be acting out scenes from other, better movies…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 26 Nov 2008

Australia only covers about two years in that continent's history. But as long as the movie feels, you'd swear it covered a decade…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 26 Nov 2008

Even more than a Western, Australia is a musical without a songbook. Its emotions are large, its rhythms bold…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Nov 2008

The film also seems to end at least four times, which is three times too many. Better yet, it never should have started…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 26 Nov 2008

A moviemaker as creative as [Baz] Luhrmann should make more movies. If nothing else, Australia proves he needs the practice…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 26 Nov 2008

Luhrmann is working a tricky game: He's trying to come to terms with modern Australia's racist legacy while telling a ripping yarn while also…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 26 Nov 2008

Luhrmann steals good ideas, fair ideas and terrible ideas - anything that once moved him when he was a little boy…

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By Brett Mccracken (54) for Christianity Today (953) on 26 Nov 2008

It's an ode to a place (exotic to some, familiar to others), yes, but more than that, Australia is state of mind: wonderment, grandeur, beauty,…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 26 Nov 2008

Kidman and Jackman ooze movie star chemistry, the latter in particular hefting this rather sluggish and ill-defined tale upon his rugged shoulders…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (604) on 26 Nov 2008

Clearly intended as a big blockbuster, to call it merely entertaining is damning it with faint praise…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 26 Nov 2008

wants to sweep previous sweeping historical romances off their feet…

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By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 26 Nov 2008

Baz Luhrmann's Australia is a sweeping, grand epic in the tradition of Gone With the Wind that gets away from its talented director, the writers…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 26 Nov 2008

An enormous, exotic, exhilarating frontier adventure that is, in its weight and grand ambition, on the epic scale of 'Gone With the Wind…

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By Jeffrey Westhoff (767) for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (767) on 26 Nov 2008

It is a pleasure, and not a guilty one, to place ourselves in the hands of a mischievous director who wants to push screen dimensions back…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 26 Nov 2008

A testament to movie love at its most devout, cinematic spectacle at its most extreme, and kitsch as an act of aesthetic communion…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 26 Nov 2008

At times the film appears on the verge of morphing into a singing-cowboy musical…

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By Christopher Long (186) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 26 Nov 2008

Part melodrama, part live-action cartoon, and entirely awful…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 25 Nov 2008

There's a sense throughout that this movie, stuffed script and all, means something. It's art…

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