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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Jul 2014

Snowpiercer feels both heightened and grounded, allegorical yet familiar, able to be experienced…

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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 26 Jun 2014

It's just that there's a particular combination of looseness, swagger, camaraderie, melancholy and melody in the last sequence; the film itself…

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Review of The Last Impresario (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Jun 2014

What emerges is an affectionate, slightly melancholy evocation of a life - incomplete, but engaging…

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Review of Ernest & Celestine (2012)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Jun 2014

From its opening credits, [it] proclaims its hand-drawn, delicate, watercolour aesthetic…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Jun 2014

It's intriguing to contemplate the nature of Fassbender's performance, focused on voice and body language, as a fragile man who finds life…

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Review of Galore (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Jun 2014

What's distinctive about Galore, however, is not an invocation of the past but the evocation of the present, the here and now: the tactile…

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Review of Blended (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Jun 2014

Bland on the one hand, tacky on the other, Blended lives up to its name in more ways than one…

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Review of Gardening With Soul (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 29 May 2014

The film creates a context, and doesn't shy away from bringing up some of the problematic episodes in the church's recent history, and Sister…

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Review of My Sweet Pepper Land (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 May 2014

One of the notable achievements Saleem's quietly surprising film is a combination of off-beat comedy and a strong sense of menace and danger…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 May 2014

The most enjoyable and unexpected element of the film is Evan Peters as the super-speedy yet laid-back mutant teen Quicksilver…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 May 2014

Jennifer Kent's clever, thoroughly satisfying and neatly unsettling debut feature is about a kind of haunting, but of who or what…

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Review of Seduced and Abandoned (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 May 2014

Their [Toback and Baldwin] film about the idea of the film is entertaining and diverting, even if there is also something slightly melancholy…

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Review of The Crossing (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 May 2014

The Crossing is a dogged, likeable account of endeavours and malfunctions, of setbacks faced with stubborn stoicism and wry, matter-of-fact…

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Review of Beyond The Edge (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 May 2014

It is a well-constructed, detailed, surprisingly tense account of the journey - physical and psychological - that led them there [the final ascent]…

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Review of The Crossing (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 May 2014

The Crossing is a dogged, likeable account of endeavours and malfunctions, of setbacks faced with stubborn stoicism and wry, matter-of-fact…

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Review of The Crossing I (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 May 2014

The Crossing is a dogged, likeable account of endeavours and malfunctions, of setbacks faced with stubborn stoicism and wry, matter-of-fact…

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Review of Next Goal Wins (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 May 2014

Next Goal Wins lingers rather too long towards the end on drawing out its message, but it is a thoroughly engaging exploration of sport, culture,…

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Review of The Invisible Woman (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 15 Apr 2014

Felicity Jones gives a strong depiction of repressed emotion…

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Review of Any Day Now (2012)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 08 Apr 2014

Any Day Now is a movie of good intentions and bad wigs, warm-hearted but slightly oversimplified…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 03 Apr 2014

It is beautifully designed, visually ravishing and symmetrical to the nth degree…

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