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Review of Second Act (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Dec 2018

The film even has something to say, at least glancingly, about class prejudice in the real world, although in true Hollywood fashion the message…

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Review of Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 05 Dec 2018

Nobody operating on a low budget (roughly, anything less $100 million) has yet worked out how to make human figures look like anything but…

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Review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 05 Dec 2018

There are many films that portray the writing life, but not many that can be accused of realism…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Dec 2018

This is a film that succeeds in holding all its elements in balance - and in doing so, arrives at a depth of feeling that isn't commonplace at all…

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Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Karl Quinn (16) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Nov 2018

There is so much to enjoy in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs that I can't help but (mostly) forgive those shortcomings…

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Review of Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Nov 2018

The result is a novelty item without much in the way of novelty, at least for anyone old enough to recognise the sources…

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Review of Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Nov 2018

Irvin Kerschner's stylish 1978 paranormal thriller has a premise ahead of its time…

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Review of if.... (1968)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Nov 2018

Making his debut in the lead role, Malcolm McDowell displays the charisma he would bring to A Clockwork Orange...and the ending still packs a punch…

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Review of The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Nov 2018

The movie is at its best in the exchanges between Redford and Sissy Spacek as Jewel…

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Review of In the Mood for Love (2000)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Nov 2018

The settings are wilfully drab - narrow corridors, cramped apartments - yet the fragmentary, richly coloured images are dazzling…

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Review of Mary Poppins (1964)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Nov 2018

As the magical nanny who turns life upside down for her charges in Edwardian England, Julie Andrews maintains a stiff upper lip that dries…

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Review of Penguin Highway (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Nov 2018

For viewers of Aoyama's age this could be a film that lingers in the mind for years to come, like the half-memory of a strange but pleasant dream…

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Review of I Confess (1953)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Nov 2018

For a believing Christian, thoughts can be as sinful as deeds...This powerful 1953 melodrama makes the point in an explicitly religious context…

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Review of Suspiria (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Nov 2018

Popular genres start to die the moment they become respectable and in that light, Luca Guadagnino's gory Suspiria is all the confirmation needed…

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Review of Wildlife (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Nov 2018

Paul Dano's intelligent, well-cast adaptation of Richard Ford's novel is a cut above most such literary coming-of-age stories, with Carey Mulligan…

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Review of Strangers on a Train (1951)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Nov 2018

The upshot is a perfect Alfred Hitchcock thriller...with a ingenious plot taken from a Patricia Highsmith novel and a memorably seductive villain…

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Review of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Nov 2018

Robert Altman's wintry 1971 anti-Western gives Warren Beatty one of his best roles as the doomed gambler McCabe: boastful, shy, foolish, altogether…

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Review of Charming (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 Oct 2018

The probable outcome is obvious, but so are the satirical possibilities, and the jokes hit more often than they miss…

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Review of Charming (2016)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 Oct 2018

The probable outcome is obvious, but so are the satirical possibilities, and the jokes hit more often than they miss…

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Review of Hunter Killer (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 Oct 2018

Once all this starts coming together, Hunter Killer is absorbing, even if Marsh and his screenwriters never pretend to be half as interested…

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