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Review of Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 17 Oct 2012

It is one of those nicely-made efforts where every element sits perfectly in place, but the director is too tentative to shift them around…

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Review of To Rome with Love (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 17 Oct 2012

The vacuous dialogue in Allen's screenplay is exceptionally clunky. What he envisages as cheeky comes off as creaky…

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Review of Lawless (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 11 Oct 2012

The film as a whole is no classic…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 11 Oct 2012

While the aggression on-screen undoubtedly gets in your face at the time of viewing, there is also a cynical honesty that plays on your mind…

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Review of Taken 2 (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 03 Oct 2012

Best enjoyed by those with short memories and a longing for needless excess…

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Review of On The Road (2010)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 26 Sep 2012

To get the most from the long and winding 140-minute journey ahead, some knowledge of the book (or at least its reputation) is compulsory…

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Review of Arbitrage (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 26 Sep 2012

A ripping tale of high finance and low ethics, Arbitrage keeps its stocks continually on the rise due to a genuinely brilliant lead performance…

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Review of On the Road (2014)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 26 Sep 2012

To get the most from the long and winding 140-minute journey ahead, some knowledge of the book (or at least its reputation) is compulsory…

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Review of On the Road (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 26 Sep 2012

To get the most from the long and winding 140-minute journey ahead, some knowledge of the book (or at least its reputation) is compulsory…

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Review of On The Road (2013)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 26 Sep 2012

To get the most from the long and winding 140-minute journey ahead, some knowledge of the book (or at least its reputation) is compulsory…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 26 Sep 2012

With just his third feature, Looper's writer-director Rian Johnson reveals himself to be the most exciting and unorthodox filmmaker to splash…

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Review of Ruby Sparks (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 19 Sep 2012

The film owes much of its success to the intricate and intimate chemistry of leads Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 19 Sep 2012

Bursting with great ideas, mild scares and plenty of laughs, Hotel Transylvania is A-class family entertainment…

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Review of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 12 Sep 2012

For now, it is a downright delight to sit back and watch the likes of the loony lemur king Julien do anything and everything to entertain you…

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Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 12 Sep 2012

Filmed with an amateur cast and staged with astonishing imagination and emotion, this is undoubtedly one of the great movie happenings of the year…

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Review of Kath & Kimderella (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 05 Sep 2012

Watching them totter around the backblocks of Italy just doesn't bring on the titters. Without their home ground advantage, the team falls to bits…

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Review of Your Sister's Sister (2011)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 05 Sep 2012

Right from the get-go, this indie American talkfest exudes a confidence, a composure and, dare I say it, a cool that extinguishes any cynicism…

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Review of The Expendables 2 (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 29 Aug 2012

The best that can be said of these spectacularly stoo-pid scenes is that you can't look away from them. But my, oh my, you can laugh at them…

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Review of Hope Springs (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 22 Aug 2012

Hope Springs is not so much a film that will grown on you, as one that will grow around you…

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Review of The Bourne Legacy (2012)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 15 Aug 2012

The Bourne Legacy in no way honours the Bourne legacy…

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