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Review of Monster Trucks (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Jan 2017

Monster Trucks has neither the gloss nor the tongue-in-cheek sensibility of, say, the most recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie…

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Review of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Jan 2017

There's an implicit tension between Ma's laid-back manner and the driven perfectionist we know he must be, but the film has limited scope to…

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Review of Railroad Tigers (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Jan 2017

These shifts in tone could have been interesting if deliberately used to throw us off balance, but Sheng seems to be hoping we won't notice…

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Review of Assassin's Creed (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Jan 2017

Films based on video games are often derided as hackwork -- but Assassin's Creed is the most daring film yet from the Australian director Justin…

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Review of Gimme Danger (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Dec 2016

On balance, this is mostly for fans -- and even they may feel some of the mixed emotions that arise whenever a one-time rebel is ushered into…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Dec 2016

Jarmusch is justly revered as one of the fathers of modern independent American film, but his films have grown ever more wispy and self-congratulatory,…

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Review of Trolls (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Nov 2016

I was confident Nicholas Stoller's Storks would take the prize for most obnoxious family entertainment of the year, but Trolls -- another garish,…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Nov 2016

No masterpiece, certainly, but substantially more interesting than comparable productions such as Captain Fantastic…

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Review of Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Nov 2016

Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth instalment, has little to recommend it on any level…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Nov 2016

[Ford] never seems in full control of either his convoluted form or his lurid content…

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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Nov 2016

[Gibson's] willingness to boil characters down to archetypes gives him a naive strength as a visual storyteller…

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Review of The Accountant (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Nov 2016

Sadly, Kendrick has little to do in the film's second half, which gets bogged down in a pointlessly complicated plot, much of it relayed in…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Nov 2016

Michele Leblanc (Isabelle Huppert), the heroine of Paul Verhoeven's terrific new thriller, Elle, is not a typical movie heroine…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Oct 2016

The understated ending is downright touching -- which is not something I ever thought I'd say of a Cruise action sequel…

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Review of Dionne Copland's Inferno (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 12 Oct 2016

There are few ideas of any kind here, beyond the moral dilemma of whether it's worth wiping out large parts of humanity to save the planet…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 12 Oct 2016

There are few ideas of any kind here, beyond the moral dilemma of whether it's worth wiping out large parts of humanity to save the planet…

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Review of Where Am I Going? (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 12 Oct 2016

What's striking to an outsider is how the point of view evades simple labels of left and right…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Oct 2016

If the version of the story we imagine for ourselves proves more interesting than the one on screen, that's not necessarily a complaint…

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Review of Storks (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Sep 2016

Storks is short on charm, but it certainly has ideas, more than it can hope to keep track of…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 08 Sep 2016

A more interesting version of the film would allow us to see him as either a flawed but noble hero or a deluded bully on an ego trip…

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