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Review of Traitor (1971)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Nov 2008

The Traitor manages to get right is what so many other post-9/11 films got wrong: it does not confuse criticism of American policy with an…

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Review of Death Race (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Nov 2008

A must-see for petrolheads and cineastes alike…

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Review of Choke (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 Oct 2008

Rockwell's performance is so artificial it's as if we're invited to look past all the tics to the real human being who might be lurking beneath…

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Review of RocknRolla (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 Oct 2008

It is perhaps high time for us to just come out and finally admit to the world that director Guy Ritchie is not a very good filmmaker…

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Review of Choke (1971)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 31 Oct 2008

Rockwell's performance is so artificial it's as if we're invited to look past all the tics to the real human being who might be lurking beneath…

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Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Oct 2008

Directed by Julian Jarrold from a script by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, this new adaptation adroitly condenses Waugh's plot while eliminating…

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Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Oct 2008

Weide bypasses the impulse to push the film at the usual breakneck comedy movie pace, allowing the conflicts to build slowly and with more…

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Review of The View from Greenhaven (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Oct 2008

Whimsical Australian fable with the soul of a tourist brochure…

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Review of Max Payne (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Oct 2008

Though the film's action scenes won't win awards for originality, they can't be faulted for either their scale or love of slo-mo…

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Review of Man on Wire (2008)

By Sandra Hall (505) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Oct 2008

Marsh stitches his story together with a seamless melding of interviews, stills, re-enactments and archival footage augmented by a wonderful…

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Review of Towelhead (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Oct 2008

[Ball] succeeds admirably and with dramatic force, blending themes of racism, liberalism, emotional betrayal, abuse, hate speech and pedophilia…

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Review of Body of Lies (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Oct 2008

Some show is made of plunging the viewer into a dense cloud of moral ambiguity, but this is mostly smoke and mirrors: while the American heroes…

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Review of Babylon A.D. (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 02 Oct 2008

It's as though the film's final act was accidentally deleted on the digital editing console…

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Review of Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

Brevig does a barely competent job of imitating the Indiana Jones movies, and seems more hindered than helped by his chosen format…

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Review of Eagle Eye (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

In Eagle Eye, old-school political paranoia is filtered through a new prism that focuses not on terrorism but on overcooked US government measures…

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Review of Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)

By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

A bright, fitfully entertaining adaptation of two of Louise Rennison's popular novels for tween-to-teenage girls…

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Review of Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

Brevig does a barely competent job of imitating the Indiana Jones movies, and seems more hindered than helped by his chosen format…

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Review of Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

Brevig does a barely competent job of imitating the Indiana Jones movies, and seems more hindered than helped by his chosen format…

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Review of The House Bunny (2008)

By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Sep 2008

It's computer-written stuff, stiffly directed by first-timer Fred Wolf, but it's light and fun and sports a decent quota of passable gags…

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Review of Step Brothers (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Sep 2008

One thing spoils the mood: for all the joy that Ferrell and Reilly take in brawling or whimpering like two-year-olds, immaturity is still seen…

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