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Review of Under the Shadow (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

The debut feature from Iranian-born and British-based filmmaker Babak Anvari is an excellent mix of political repression, maternal dread, and…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1988)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

Imagery and philosophy circle back and then veer forward, but it's a perceptive work that finds a transformative power in genuine sadness…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

This sequel to the bare-fisted 2012 action film that featured Tom Cruise as a lone, lean force of American nature corrects several failings…

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Review of Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

Despite being directed by Gregg Mottola (Superbad, Paul), the comic scenes play out with often banal interplay that barely has a whiff of improvised…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1976)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

Imagery and philosophy circle back and then veer forward, but it's a perceptive work that finds a transformative power in genuine sadness…

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Review of The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

The documentary removes cliches that surround the African community to reveal individuals, makes clear the humanitarian need to accept refugees,…

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Review of Supersonic (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

By eschewing cultural context, outside voices, or songwriting analysis, the film matches the group's insular arrogance, although there's genuine…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

Imagery and philosophy circle back and then veer forward, but it's a perceptive work that finds a transformative power in genuine sadness…

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Review of Zero Days (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

[Gibney's] reveal is that one nation altered the [Stuxnet] code, which revealed it to other countries, which are now growing their unchecked…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Dec 2016

The Neon Demon is a gender-flipped twin to Refn's last movie, the dreamy Bangkok ultraviolence of 2013's Only God Forgives…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Sep 2016

There are clashes both small and spectacular throughout this fantasy adventure but the crucial one is between the film's director, Tim Burton,…

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Review of Early Winter (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Sep 2016

Locked-off cameras that refuse to direct the audience's attention shape a film where the difference between diffidence and deceit could be…

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Review of Chevalier (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Sep 2016

The movie evokes a detailed, deadpan state of being, refusing to allow for sympathy as the games grow ever more intense and recriminations…

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Review of Equity (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Sep 2016

Meera Menon's coolly framed compositions reveal how the pure American desire of corporate success is weighted against them…

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Review of I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Sep 2016

The humour is bleak, but [Max] Records, one-time star of Where the Wild Things Are, gives the movie a compelling centre before it changes tack…

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Review of Life, Animated (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Sep 2016

A great affirmation about a real-life lost boy who found his way into the wider world through his love for Disney's animated canon…

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Review of Yoga Hosers (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Sep 2016

Kevin Smith goes back to the fluoro-lit convenience store with this tepid teen horror-comedy that plays out as a grab-bag of self-referential…

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Review of Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Sep 2016

The focus of this documentary is the work and life - the former overwhelmed the latter - of iconoclastic American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Sep 2016

Snowden is the best film Oliver Stone has made in at least two decades…

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Review of Summertime (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

The story treats each character with valid consideration, so that there's no simple resolution…

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