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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 31 Jan 2017

A powerful and sometimes unexpectedly humorous drama about a man who refuses to acknowledge his past even as the present insists on it…

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Review of xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 31 Jan 2017

While director DJ Caruso (Eagle Eye) can tidy the action sequences he can't do a great deal with his leading man, whose woodenness here extends…

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Review of Trolls (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

But in this new Hollywood animated children's film, Trolls are small, incurably sweet and dedicated to singing, dancing and hugging…

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Review of Dancer (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

The best moments are astute observations, whether awestruck ballerinas watching Polunin rehearse or a close-up of the battered feet that launch…

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Review of The Menkoff Method (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

A low-budget Australian oddity whose mash-up of genre and tone rarely exert more than a fleeting appeal…

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Review of Morgan (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

A B-movie with pretension to high-minded inquiry, addressing artificial life and the sanctity of human existence, but when the story actually…

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Review of Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

The impeccable archival material and testimony from now greying bandmates and contemporaries tell the story of a musician whose commitment…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

The different Patersons combine into a terrific take on love's abiding worth, the mechanics of creativity and the strength of community…

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Review of Why Him? (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

The script supplies some funny gags, but they're terribly overworked and come with a welter of unnecessary comic scaffolding…

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Review of Operation Avalanche (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

A frisky, fertile dive into conspiracy theories and the righteous dedication that often gives birth to them, this low-budget Canadian feature…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

The extended final sequence takes everything that has occurred and remakes it so that happiness seemingly lasts for both a few perfect moments…

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Review of The Merry Widow (1926)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

Franz Lehar's opera is transformed by von Stroheim into a work of comic rivalry punctuated by a reductive male gaze, bursts of skittering violence,…

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Review of Bad Santa 2 (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

Mark Waters (Mean Girls), knows how to frame the dialogue, but apart from a terrific gag involving an electric oven the movie lacks a corrupted…

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Review of Railroad Tigers (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

Chan is economical instead of eruptive, gracefully setting up gags and often sidestepping the frenetic movements of his co-stars (who include…

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Review of The Rehearsal (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

Group exercises and rehearsals are shot with an expressive clarity that gets at how they unite the students so that they can work together…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

There's possibility in every moment, as you see when Chiron reconnects with the grown Kevin (Andre Holland), and those moments keep accumulating…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

There's a heartfelt give and take between Kidman and Bateman…

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Review of Ruin (2012)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

The film eschews back story for a fragmented approach that contrasts moments of expressionistic beauty - often in their nocturnal encounters…

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Review of Lion (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

The movie mostly succeeds in grounding the hard to believe in easy to comprehend circumstances and readily real emotion…

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Review of Gimme Danger (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Jan 2017

Pop, now a leonine elder statesman, is a salty, charming interview subject, but this is a surprisingly dry and conventional telling of the…

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