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Review of Extinction (2018)

By Brad Newsome (24) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 16 Aug 2018

The big twist is a good one, there are some decent action sequences and Lizzy Caplan is always good to watch, but there isn't enough here to…

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Review of Extinction (2018)

By Brad Newsome (24) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 16 Aug 2018

The big twist is a good one, there are some decent action sequences and Lizzy Caplan is always good to watch, but there isn't enough here to…

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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 16 Aug 2018

These two really do love each other, but Florence cannot abide the physical realm…

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Review of West of Sunshine (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 14 Aug 2018

The film realises Raftopoulos's desire to deliver a film that looks as if it's been distilled from reality but in this instance, naturalism…

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Review of The Darkest Minds (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 14 Aug 2018

The film is framed so deliberately as a prelude to more exciting times to come in its sequels that it renders the ending oddly anti-climactic…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 09 Aug 2018

Spike's back, so back…

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Review of SuperFly (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 08 Aug 2018

The whole thing plays like a fancy dress parody of a crime movie, except nobody seems to be having much fun…

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Review of Command and Control (2016)

By Brad Newsome (24) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 01 Aug 2018

Survivors give gripping accounts of events, while journalist Eric Schlosser (on whose book the documentary is based) explains that the risks…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Louise Rugendyke (1) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 30 Jul 2018

Cruise will never win an Oscar for playing Hunt, but what he does in Mission: Impossible - Fallout is surely at least as taxing as, say, Leonardo…

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Review of RBG (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 25 Jul 2018

West and Cohen give us a brisk recital of her achievements…

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Review of The Wife (2017)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 25 Jul 2018

A wonderfully potent study of a marriage corroded by male vanity and female complicity…

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Review of The Breaker Upperers (2018)

By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 24 Jul 2018

It makes up in freshness what it lacks in technique…

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Review of The Second (2018)

By Brad Newsome (24) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 18 Jul 2018

A mostly engrossing mystery-thriller anchored by terrific performances by Rachael Blake and Susie Porter, though in the end it's a little unmoored…

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Review of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 18 Jul 2018

Lily James bears little resemblance to Streep but the spark is there - the will to go on extracting happiness from unpromising circumstances…

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Review of Survivor's Guide to Prison (2018)

By Brad Newsome (24) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 18 Jul 2018

A feature-length indictment of an American legal system in which justice comes a distant last behind the interests of politicians, prosecutors,…

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Review of The Gospel According to André (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 18 Jul 2018

[Kate Novack] realised that there was a lot more to him than the flamboyant front with which he faces life and her tenderly perceptive film…

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Review of Occupation (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 12 Jul 2018

When straining for significance, slow motion is his answer every time and the lameness of his ending is infused with a risible shot of sentimentality…

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Review of Mary Shelley (2017)

By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 11 Jul 2018

If it falls short of its ambitions, you have to love that it tries to go for the big story, and that it gives Elle Fanning such a grand role…

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Review of Skyscraper (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 11 Jul 2018

Computer systems may be able to perform remote-control miracles but they're all hackable and in the end, nothing can compare to the Rock's…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 04 Jul 2018

[Ant-Man] gets by on his propensity for knockabout humour, his child-like enthusiasms and the company he keeps…

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