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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Jul 2016

There were possibilities in this set-up, but the film takes its tone from the glum Skarsgard, who has the bulky torso but not the spirit…

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Review of Central Intelligence (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Jun 2016

The thin, disjointed thriller plot is little more than an excuse to show the characters reacting in opposed ways: Bob typically cruising through…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Jun 2016

As ever, Spielberg seems aware of his own darker side, but is keen to gloss it over…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 21 Jun 2016

It's as if Linklater is bound by a bro code that obliges him to present these guys in a basically uncritical light…

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Review of Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

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

As in previous Ice Age instalments, the Scrat segments are the highlights, while the main storyline combines pointlessly glossy animation with…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

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

Hanging over it all is the question of why the film was worth making at all, except as a pure bid for profit…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

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

Me Before You is also to some degree a Serious Issue Film, and it's here that viewers may feel a certain unease…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Jun 2016

The soothing beauty pulls you in, inviting you to immerse yourself for a couple of hours in the best of all possible worlds…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Jun 2016

All sorts of people are calling themselves nerds nowadays, but [Warcraft] supplies an easy test…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

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

[Wan's] His latest exorcism story is more supernatural thriller than outright horror, but directed with real flair…

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Review of Now You See Me 2 (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 May 2016

I have fond memories of Louis Leterrier's cheerfully ridiculous 2013 caper Now You See Me, but I didn't really need another one…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 26 May 2016

Ever wondered about the troubled childhood of the Mad Hatter? Me neither…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 24 May 2016

Black has a potent weapon in Gosling, who's at his zaniest here, his moist eyes and drooping moustache evoking the 1990s Nicolas Cage…

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Review of Highly Strung (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 19 May 2016

While the chamber music on the soundtrack rarely becomes central in its own right, Highly Strung is constructed like a piece of music, divided…

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Review of Harry & Snowman (2015)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 19 May 2016

As filmmaking Harry and Snowman is undistinguished, relying heavily on corny TV-style devices…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 May 2016

A low point for the series and for the current superhero wave generally: not incompetent exactly, but flat and stale, its rote grandiosity…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

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

For all the shock value of the explicit gore, the horror isn't the kind that lingers…

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Review of Remember (2016)

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

The performance by Plummer, now in his mid-80s, amounts to a masterclass on how to use one's actual physical limitations to advantage…

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Review of Remember (2015)

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

The performance by Plummer, now in his mid-80s, amounts to a masterclass on how to use one's actual physical limitations to advantage…

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Review of Remember (2015)

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

The performance by Plummer, now in his mid-80s, amounts to a masterclass on how to use one's actual physical limitations to advantage…

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