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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 Apr 2014

State-of-the-art software has been used to make the characters look like actual plastic figurines brought to life through the magic of stop-motion…

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Review of In a World... (2013)

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

Writer-director Lake Bell is also the star of this quick-witted beguiling comedy of female identity, family ties and an unseen but fiercely…

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Review of Veronica Mars (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 21 Mar 2014

The film even manages things neatly at the end: we get a mixture of closure and openness, in which things are rounded off, yet there's still…

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Review of The Armstrong Lie (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Mar 2014

The Armstrong Lie presents an interesting perspective on him, and on his role in the science of doping…

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Review of Gloria (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Feb 2014

Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's Gloria is a warm, intimate, sharply funny depiction of a life in progress…

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Review of Gloria (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Feb 2014

Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's Gloria is a warm, intimate, sharply funny depiction of a life in progress…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

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

There is a sentimental aspect to the concluding stages of the film: it's not as broad or astringent as Payne can be…

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Review of Endless Love (2014)

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

If there's any obsession or intensity in this movie, it belongs to Jade's father - a detail that throws the movie somewhat off kilter…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Feb 2014

There are plenty of reasons to be sceptical about remakes of action classics, but director Jose Padilha's 21st-century take on Paul Verhoeven's…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Dec 2013

Anchorman 2, which McKay again directed and co-wrote with Ferrell, is honourable as far as sequels go, building on the memorable moments of…

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Review of Mystery Road (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 17 Dec 2013

A work of evocative suggestion and concrete detail, a film that uses the genre trappings of the western and the thriller to explore a complex…

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Review of Frances Ha (2013)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 11 Dec 2013

Frances Ha -- both the movie and its heroine -- is graceful, awkward, luminous and hilarious…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Ed Gibbs (248) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 May 2013

Luhrmann understandably wants his Gatsby to be great, but he has inadvertently reminded us that the Great American Novel belongs precisely…

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Review of Scary Movie 5 (2013)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 10 Apr 2013

This is the first Scary Movie in seven years, but the formula remains unchanged, with a thin storyline linking spoofs of Hollywood hits…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 22 Feb 2013

Ultimately, the title of the film demands to be taken as a question: is this truly what love looks like? A little smugly, Haneke refuses to answer…

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Review of The Lost Weekend (1945)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 19 Feb 2013

One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction…

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Review of The Sweeney (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Feb 2013

Winstone attempts to bluster his way through, but remains the least credible action star this side of Sylvester Stallone in The Expendables…

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Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Feb 2013

Trying to one-up Tolstoy was always going to be a bad idea, though I wouldn't object to seeing a Bond movie, or Les Miserables, staged in the…

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Review of Pitch Perfect (2012)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Dec 2012

But in a small-scale way, aided by a strong, wry central performance from Kendrick, Pitch Perfect has its charms…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Dec 2012

The narrative feels almost intentionally hokey and diagrammatic, a framework that gives the actors freedom to display their best-known qualities…

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