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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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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 25 Nov 2008

For the more inclined, Australia is a dramatically fertile, immersive gem: an epic with true epic intentions and execution, reinvesting in…

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By Rebecca Murray (740) for About.com (1,470) on 25 Nov 2008

Not even a shirtless Jackman makes this Australia worth visiting…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 25 Nov 2008

[U]nabashedly old-fashioned and proudly romantic... sincere and straight-up…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Nov 2008

By unnecessarily extending the film (and shortening what should have formed its crux), Australia manages the almost unfeasible feat of becoming…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 25 Nov 2008

It's always nice to see pretty people doing great things, but in telling the story that should have been most his own, Luhrmann has ceded his…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for MSNBC (243) on 25 Nov 2008

It's as big and bold and unabashedly old-fashioned as anything since Titanic, and as with that film, you'll forgive its excesses and revel…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 25 Nov 2008

There's enough material in Australia to warrant a mini-series, which is how the feature film plays out. In one sitting, it's a tough sit…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 25 Nov 2008

It's not Luhrmann's best work to date, but it has crowd-rousing flair to spare…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 25 Nov 2008

While it takes chutzpah to name a film after an entire continent, Australia is as vastly entertaining as Australia is vast…

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